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The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Curated by Debra Levine and Dave Kehr

January 20-February 6, 2016

Alison Durkee

All That Jack: Discovering the Work of Jack Cole at MoMA

American jazz dance is an enduringly iconic style, its isolated movements and cool stylization instantaneously recognizable on stages around the world. But less renowned is the work of Jack Cole, the choreographer who pioneered this seminal form. Thankfully, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City recently gave Cole’s work the spotlight it deserves with the film retrospective “All that Jack (Cole),” a dazzling tour through Cole’s Hollywood choreography curated by MoMA’s Dave Kehr and dance critic and Cole expert Debra Levine.

Born in 1911 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Jack Cole had a varied career that spanned the worlds of concert and commercial dance. His career began as a modern dancer, working first with Ruth