Movie

Jazz Dance

Released: September 4, 1954 (1954)

Runtime: 22 minutes

Genres: Documentary, Music

Few films wield the awesome spiritual power of Jazz Dance, on which Leacock was one of two cameramen charting the slow, smoldering build of a Manhattan dance club from idle space to explosive, carnal bacchanal. Employing handheld cameras, limited light and sheer proximity, the film achieved an intimacy never before witnessed in a documentary.