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NY Export: Opus Jazz: SXSW 2010 Accepted Film

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NY Export: Opus Jazz is a scripted adaptation of a 1958 "ballet in sneakers" by Jerome Robbins, a companion piece to his legendary West Side Story, that tells an abstract tale of disaffected urban youth. Shot on location all over New York City on anamorphic 35mm, the film returns the original choreography to the streets that inspired it and stars an ensemble cast of dancers from the New York City Ballet. Following the dance film is a documentary where dance luminaries speak to the extraordinary history of the piece, while stylized screen tests of the cast of young New York City Ballet dancers provide insight into what makes the ballet contemporary. Set to air on PBS Great Performances in 2010.

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  • I just saw this on TV . . . AMAZING

  • This is epic. I just saw this today on PBS.

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  •  original choreography........ original choreography.

    Amazing!!! Nice place!Thank you for sharing!

  • I first saw NY Export: Opus Jazz on the Fine Arts Channel, the original cast, shot the year the dance was created. I have looked in vain for that on You Tube, and do not know if it exists there: if it does, what do I enter in order to bring it up? If you haven't seen it, you MUST: as good as the new adaptation is, nothing can beat the cast and performance of the original. Robbins was a genius...

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