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New Writings

Feel the Floor – Restoring the Life and Legacy of Jazz Choreographer Buddy Bradley with Maureen Footer

This discussion explores how one choreographer’s jazz steps electrified Broadway, conquered the West End and reshaped stage and screen dance through legendary students and decades of innovation worldwide.

  • Total running time 90min

Feel the Floor (Beacon Press) captures the world of Harlem Renaissance dancer and choreographer Buddy Bradley, who revitalised dance in the West End and infused jazz movement into ballet. Working with Jessie Matthews, Jack Buchanan, Noël Coward, Frederick Ashton and George Balanchine, Bradley’s innovative choreography is preserved in glamorous 1930s British musical films and endures on stage.

Tickets £6.50.

See our Projecting the Archive screening of It’s Love Again, starring Jessie Matthews and choreographed by Bradley.