Performance

Jazz Is Dance

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At Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis leads the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in *Marsalis: Jazz Is Dance*, a program that treats swing as a physical language as much as a musical one. The performance draws on the big-band lineage that has long been kept alive in New York, where ballroom and stage traditions helped shape jazz’s sense of motion and time. It also reflects the institution’s dual mandate at Columbus Circle: concert presentation alongside ongoing education. One clear takeaway is how discipline and dance feel can coexist without softening either.