JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA

WITH

WYNTON MARSALIS

This high-energy performance of music and dance kicks off the 60^th anniversary season of UC Santa Barbara’s Arts and Lectures series.

At its swinging heart, jazz is dance music, built on rhythms that inspired the greatest tap dancers and given rise to dance crazes like the jitterbug. Inspired by the variety of movements in the animal kingdom, Wynton Marsalis’ Spaces is a 10-part suite described as a “jazz Carnival of the Animals” (Financial Times). This evening-length work features two extraordinary dancers interpreting everything from snakes to chickens: Charles “Lil Buck” Riley, a specialist in a street dance called jookin’; and tap dancer Jared Grimes.

According to The New York Times, the show offers “heaps of elegance, dexterity and charm… their fleet, floor-skimming steps and the orchestra’s exuberant buzzing worked together like one great colony.” 

Ticket Price:  $53.75 (Reflects 10% group discount).  Lower Balcony.

Dinner:  Festive pre-show dinner at a lively Italian-style nearby restaurant TBA to attendees one week prior to event.