18/08/2016
It's an amazing experience to watch a ballet, seeing beauty in human forms, feeling the rush of excitement, sharing the joy of dancing, taking in both visually and acoustically. The beautiful piece below is choreographed by Justin Peck, the star of the famous documentary Ballet 422. He's also featured on Kinfolk, a lifestyle-and-culture magazine. To get your hands on some Kinfolks, go to pennyuniversity.us !
“It’s like molecules speeding up and expanding outward,” Peck says about one sequence, describing an urgency that underlies the ballet. The dancers seem to be exploring a new world, and in setting them on this task Peck makes great use of the stage: movements bursting with opposing energy, suspension, and expansiveness; freeze-frame “Kodak moments”; and the kind of languid movements he calls “gooey.” And that athleticism he loves? It colors much of the ballet. “Take it up a notch,” he calls to one dancer. “Like your limbs are going to separate from your body.” Yet beneath this contemporary, jazzy, exuberant dancing, ballet’s classical foundation is there, and Peck calls for it over and over. “We want to start from a classical position,” he tells the dancers, “then slowly decompose.” - SF Ballet
This is an original short film for the world premiere production of Justin Peck's "In the Countenance of Kings" at San Francisco Ballet. The ballet is a part...
