Dance review: Savage Jazz Dance's jazzy 'Agon'

It's always tricky when you mess with a ballet that many consider iconic, and it takes a steady hand to tackle the complexities of Igor Stravinsky, as the Savage Jazz Dance Company did with its premiere of 'Agon,' in the Laney College Theater on Thursday night.

Director and choreographer Reginald Ray-Savage has long been candid in his admiration of Balanchine. But though he slips in a few choreographic quotations from the original for the fans - Alison Hurley's pinwheeling arms reflect the pinwheeling legs of Balanchine's original, and cascading canons for Genna Beattie and Melissa Schumann recall his playful gaillard dance - he heads in his own direction here, with mixed results...

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