A jookin' take on a classic
The dancer above is the amazing Charles "Lil Buck" Riley, familiar from Janelle Monae's "Tightrope" video and the new dance craze from Memphis (his hometown) known as jookin'. In some ways the performance below, performed impromptu to the same familiar chunk of Saint-Saëns with Yo-Yo Ma, is even better than the more formal version above. The dance world keeps looking for ways to combine the vigor and energy…