carbro Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 As dirac posted last August, , a film documentary on Jock Soto has been in the works. No release date or venues yet, but a trailer is now available online: http://www.waterflowingtogether.com/. Something to look forward to! Link to comment
dancefreak929292 Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Yes!! i'm excited!! ! Thank you! Link to comment
carbro Posted April 12, 2007 Author Share Posted April 12, 2007 The same link will take you to a new trailer in which Peter Martins offers a glowing appreciation of Jock's talent and career. Lots of little snatches of Jock dancing -- a step here, a finish there, a lift, but all as quick cuts. I hope the completed film is more generous -- and gives us whole phrases as danced to the music to which they were designed. There are still no dates on the Screening page. Link to comment
Ray Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 I could do without Peter Martins calling Soto "exotic." Please! That's a word people in the 1940s might have used to describe Dorothy Lamour in Aloma of the South Seas (1941). I suppose in the lilly white ballet world, unfortunately, it makes sense. Like carbro, I'm eager to see more, as I'm not sure what the film's foucs will be--the mournful, elegiac Arvo Part music (Frates?) connotes that the film will be a somber affair, mourning the end of a career instead of celebrating it. And the shots of Arizona combined with that ritualistic music seem to affirm Jock as a force of nature rather than the hardworking dancer we know him to be. I hope, in other words, that there's less of this easy new-agey essentialism and more focus on his labor. I mean, for all his talents, Soto probably had to work very hard to overcome his less-than-ideal body (by ballet standards)--which, though, to SAB and NYCB's credit, never seemed to hinder his progress. A fascinating and unique career path, to be sure! He also did much, with Heather Watts, for HIV/AIDS issues quite early on in a field which has often been slow to act on "real world" issues. I hope the documentary will cover this as well as, to quote carbro, "[give] us whole phrases as danced to the music to which they were designed" Link to comment
HollyFusco Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 It seems rather promising! I'm exited. I wish there were a definite date though Link to comment
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