Jul
25th
25th
Most amazing is his musicality, his ability to respond to the score faithfully and yet creatively, playing with the music, moving in before and after the beat. Musicality always comes off as spontaneity, and he was loved, early on, for that quality.
Joan Acocella, who traces the trajectory of Michael Jackson through his dancing. It’s one of the more clear eyed and quietly poignant retrospectives I’ve read since his death. (“Michael Jackson the dancer”, the New Yorker
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newyorker.com
