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Alive and Kicking

2016

Susan Glatzer

Documentary

7.0

29

Documentary Alive and Kicking gives the audience an intimate, insider's view into the culture of the current swing dance world while shedding light on issues facing modern society.

	Media	Author	Review
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Offering likeable characters and some killer footage (...) the action 'Alive and Kicking' captures is so transfixing, one marvels that dancers can keep it up for five years, much less five decades"
		Sheri Linden Los Angeles Times	"It’s an antidote to the emotional disconnect of the so-called connected age (...) [Glatzer] lets the dancers’ ecstatic moves do most of the talking, and they’re persuasive."
		Wayne Alan Brenner Austin Chronicle	"All of this works toward a successful expression of what means a thing because it 'does' have that swing."
		Serena Donadoni Village Voice	"Although it’s been used repeatedly as a movie title, 'Alive and Kicking' perfectly captures the joyous enthusiasm of Susan Glatzer’s debut documentary, which presents swing dance as a vibrant, living art form."
		The Washington Post	"While the film’s focus reveals Glatzer’s knowledge of this world (...) it creates a rootlessness that keeps us from a deeper engagement with the subject (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

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