Performance

Whiplash

0 upcoming performances in New York

Damien Chazelle’s *Whiplash* (2014) follows a young drummer whose pursuit of jazz greatness is shaped, and distorted, by an instructor who treats cruelty as pedagogy. The film’s subject is not music alone but the cost of ambition, and how institutions confuse discipline with damage. At Town Hall, the story is reframed through a live classical performance by an ensemble, shifting attention from swing to structure and tension. Its cultural significance is broad rather than local; no specific NYC premiere history is established.