Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

An episode from a longer work originally created by Talley Beatty, with the title, Come and Get the Beauty of it Hot, Toccata is set in New York streets and incorporates nuances of classic and primitive dance in a jazz idiom. The piece contains a sequence of ensembles, duets and trios that are danced in an almost declamatory manner as the dancers project their movements toward the audience and seldom toward themselves.