Bob Boross Freestyle Jazz Dance is the choreographic outlet for the jazz dance inspired choreography of Bob Boross. A project based dance company currently situated in New York City, Bob Boross Freestyle Jazz Dance utilizes classic jazz dance values that are re-imagined in a contemporary sense under the mission statement of "dance as art…dance as entertainment." Boross's work ranges from the lyrical to Broadway pizzazz, from emotive pieces that explore social injustice to hardships endured by the everyday person, and the joys of both swing based jazz music to rhythmically intricate tap dancing.
Performances
Dancers
Repertory - all choreography by Bob Boross
- Empty Sky…The Rising (evening length piece) - music by Bruce Springsteen, 25 dancers
- Get With It - music by Dee Dee Bridgewater, 6 minutes, 14 dancers
- Big Man on Mulberry Street - music by Billy Joel, 5 minutes, 5 dancers
- LIFE - music by Zero dB, 5 dancers
- Road to Resilience - music by Nicholas Payton, 7 dancers
- Mercy Street - music by Herbie Hancock, 9 minutes, 9 dancers
- City of Angels - music from City of Angels, 4 minutes, 7 dancers
- Love Fell Out With Me - music by Sammy Davis Jr, 15 minutes, 15 dancers
- I Am - music by Yanni, 4 minutes, 1 dancer
- Down Into Muddy Water - music by Aaron Neville, 4 minutes, 5-8 dancers
- Send Your Love - music by Sting, 5 minutes, 7-9 dancers
- Diaspora - music by Miles Davis, 30 minutes, 13 dancers
- Sweet Release - music by Regina Carter, 7 minutes, 5 dancers
- Love Come Quick - music by Herbie Hancock, 7 minutes, 9 dancers
- Way Down…in Jungleland - music by Bruce Springsteen, 7-9 dancers
- The Joy Spring - music by the Manhattan Transfer, 6 minutes, 4 dancers
- Basie's Bag - music by George Benson, 3 minutes, 2 dancers (tap dance)
- Riba - music by Duke Ellington, 3 minutes, 8 dancers, (tap dance)
- Where Beauty Lies - music by Jean Luc Ponty, 9 minutes, 8 dancers
- Liber8 - music by Horace Silver, 6 minutes, 9 dancers
- Cool - music from West Side Story by Dave Grusin, 5 minutes, 11 dancers
- LIFE Part 2 - music by Swedish House Mafia, 7 minutes, 9 dancers
- Sway - music by Michael Buble, 4 minutes, 6 dancers (tap dance)