Article: Riffing and jamming with Savage Jazz.(Reginald Ray-Savage)

If you want excellent advice on how to become a a dancer--and survive as a dancer--Reginald Ray-Savage, 44, will give it to you. The outspoken artistic director of Berkeley, California-based Savage Jazz, one of a handful of concert jazz dance companies in the country, has spent more than a decade training dancers with a tough-love approach. [] If you want your advice sugarcoated, you should try someone else. If a dancer wants to, say, study in New York and Savage doesn't think she's ready, he'll tell her so. "People get mad and say I'm not encouraging. But why should I co-sign their fantasy?" Savage says. "Recent generations of dancers have been taught to seek ...

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