When classic music meets breakdance
By Cédric Pierre-Louis on Tuesday 19 April 2011, 20:21 - Entertainment - Permalink
If you ever wonder yourself what would look like the result when classic music meets breakdance, check this out :
What do director Spike Jonze, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and dancer Lil Buck have in common? Not a lot, but it doesn't matter, because they just managed to perform an amazing and entertaining collaboration here. In this video, shot during a gala aiming to promote Art in american schools, 马友友 and Lil'Buck interpret « The dying swan » by Camille Saint-Saëns. Some will maybe interrogate themselves to figure out if this unexpected cooperation is art. To those people I will just say the following : if this demonstration give you some thrill, that means you have been touched by the performance, and only Art can do that.
Yo-Yo Ma is a French-born American cellist, virtuoso, orchestral composer of
Chinese descent, and winner of multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of
Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. He is one of the
most famous cellists of the modern age.
(Source : Wikipedia)
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