Spike Jonze hit up a recent event to bring the arts back into schools and got this collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and Los Angeles street dancer Lil’ Buck on video.
This is the craziest interpretation of “The Dying Swan” from Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, like, ever, but it’s beautiful.
Often, the most inspiring creations are a the result of a juxtaposition between the classical and the modern. The old and the new. Like Dr. Carl Sagan said, “You have to know the past to understand the present.”