choreography: Richard Alston
The songwriter Hoagy Carmichael recorded his own often witty lyrics in a low-key Southern drawl, a style he described as "Lazying". In Richard Alston's brand new Shuffle It Right, the songs Alston has chosen (Riverboat Shuffle, Georgia, Old Man Harlem and, of course, Star Dust) fairly scurry along with wry little licks and subtly punched out rhythm. It is toe-tapping, knee-jiggling music which gets the whole company moving.
Commissioned by The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. First performed by Richard Alston Dance Company at the Marlow Theatre, Canterbury on 12 February 2008.