Ballet 422 (2014)

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Genres & Description

Action Documentary Music Sport

6.2 / 10

Ballet 422 is a record of the creative process of a young choreographer Justin Peck, just 26 years old, hired to create a new ballet for the winter season of the New York City Ballet in 2013. The New York City Ballet is considered one of the best companies in the world. Since 1990 he is led by Peter Martins, his Ballet Master in Chief. The documentary describes the intense backstage work that takes place during the process of creating and learning this new ballet: "Paz de la Jolla". It shows Peck working with his fellow dancers (Justin Peck is also a soloist at NYCB!), with musicians, lighting technicians, and costume designers in the composition of a new work, his third creation for the NYCB. It is the first time the New York City Ballet is exposed during the creation of a new a ballet.

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Comments on this trailer
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Vino

Peck does boring work; he's being heavily promoted. - @Sunday, September 9, 2018 1:26 AM

Andy G

My failed dream! U.u - @Tuesday, August 29, 2017 12:43 AM

Dasy R.

Rubric. Phyllips Glass - @Saturday, August 19, 2017 1:12 AM

elioraimmanuel

Great movie, but I needed to see more of the dance! - @Friday, June 30, 2017 8:02 PM

MAK WING麥泳

Watching these ballet videos made me want to stretch my splits. - @Saturday, April 1, 2017 1:54 PM

Miss Mercy

Really want to see this now. - @Saturday, March 25, 2017 1:04 AM

itzel

what is the music that used? - @Friday, November 4, 2016 8:27 PM

Jennifer C

Omg I watched this ballet at Lincoln center, it was so good - @Monday, October 31, 2016 1:57 AM

Sierra M

Song? - @Friday, October 7, 2016 6:01 PM

es zee

SAWYER WHAT ARE YOU DOIN EREEEEEEE - @Sunday, October 2, 2016 9:56 AM

K Lu

This was not a good trailer. - @Wednesday, September 21, 2016 12:25 AM

Brandon Denis

Best trailer ever! Slowest most boring documentary ever! - @Thursday, September 8, 2016 5:55 AM

Noa Noa

ballet is my life - @Wednesday, August 31, 2016 1:31 PM

OpheliaEdits

When I see these videos I always wish I had a ballet studio nearby. - @Sunday, August 28, 2016 1:25 AM

Kacey Cox

great film. - @Monday, June 13, 2016 8:40 PM

Kevin Donohue

My humble comments... I think this documentary successfully captured all the different threads - choreography, orchestration, costumes, makeup, set, lighting - that come together - and must come together - and must come together by the premiere - in creating a new ballet, and the excitement and tensions that mount as these threads weave into a sturdy fabric - or fray apart. The viewer clearly sees how many dedicated people in many different disciplines it takes to mount a ballet - and how such a young choreographer must have sufficient knowledge of all these areas to work and communicate effectively with everyone involved to bring his vision to the stage. Beautifully filmed and structured! As for Mr. Peck's choreography - where does he get his movement from? How did he build such a personal vocabulary on top of the often overwhelmingly rich vocabulary of classical ballet? And watching him work, you see the inadequacy of words to communicate movement, but how dancers intuitively understand one another - a few seemingly non-specific words couple with a marked-out gesture and the nuance of the entire dance changes. Truly mysterious. And then Mr. Peck ran to his dressing room to do make up? After that, he was able to perform? - @Tuesday, December 1, 2015 5:47 AM

Samantha P

Strange movie/documentary. Lots of not much happening including many gratuitous shots of Peck just walking. No emotion or explanation, just him walking. Also for someone who had just dabuted a new ballet he was not very excited. - @Sunday, August 23, 2015 4:27 AM

hexonatapeloop

Great film. I found some music I liked: Tchaikovsky symphony 3, 1st movement. But does anyone know what is the other piece of music we see the orchestra playing later on: it's at the 45min mark in the full film, we see Peck sitting in the theatre watching it (just before Prima gets her outfit altered). In the final credits there is also Bizet symphony 1 but it doesn't seem to be this. Any ideas? Newly scored music? Sounds like Russian early c20 of some sort. - @Saturday, August 1, 2015 12:18 AM

AppeasingPoet

Just watched it on Netflix. In all honesty, this trailer is more exciting and dramatic thanks to great editing than the documentary is. It's a good lesson on why TV isn't realistic and why reality shows are scripted, cuz real real life is boring. But the choreography is beautiful and the mood is pleasant. - @Friday, July 31, 2015 5:59 AM

darkinetix

Saw Ballet 422 on Netflix. Unfortunately, I've seen news clips on broadcast channels that did more exciting treatment of this subject, even if they're just covering a local Nutcracker production around the holidays. That's not to say it's not a fascinating film -- especially if you're into the arts, dance and theater production specifically -- but it just doesn't really do much. The end leaves you wanting a lot more, which speaks to the level of greatness on display from the doc's featured subjects. The dancing and the dancers are a joy to watch. Which also reminds me that none of the artists involved in the production were ever identified with captions or text on screen. Kind of frustrating and atypical for such a documentary. Also liked that there was maybe a vapor of attention to the negative aspects of ballet, like the injuries. Some films and documentaries hound the artistic melodrama for entertainment a bit too much. Alas, the only real takeaway is that the choreographer is quite a flame in his field, and NYCB should have your money. As a film, however, it aspires but never becomes. Such a beautiful and rare thing captured in a very sterile and cold documentary. It's really bittersweet. They caught a brilliant piece of history and human magic on film, and treated it like an orca in a swimming pool. - @Thursday, July 9, 2015 6:40 AM

Amy Ro

I love these. It's too bad they haven't made a documentary on the Opera the Paris dance company in such a long time though. That's the mother of ballet (: - @Friday, May 22, 2015 4:17 PM

mr. ALLcaps

yidiot global order trendy crap! the russian schools make pc shit show baboonistan usa look like an untied shoelace - @Friday, May 15, 2015 6:23 AM

jwm239

...and a few lucky folks 'dance' in the sky, gliding, soaring... - @Monday, March 23, 2015 1:38 PM

Bonnie Hundley

I'll check this out in an actual movie theater. :-) - @Friday, March 20, 2015 5:41 PM

Jaroslav Korbel

Sufjan Stevens composed original music for this ballet, I hope the documentary will show at least a bit of the musical side of it. - @Friday, February 13, 2015 12:44 PM

Grace Bosward

What song at the start?? - @Saturday, January 31, 2015 6:23 AM

Christian Broughton

Does anybody know what the music is at the end of this trailer? - @Friday, January 30, 2015 5:17 PM

Heaven Chan

oh my god i cant wait for this movie damn i wish i can do ballet again TT - @Monday, January 12, 2015 2:43 PM

Víctor Molina

Esta genial! - @Sunday, January 4, 2015 2:01 AM

Pygard

The song is Glassworks No 4: Rubric by Phillip Glass - @Monday, November 24, 2014 3:30 PM

Matt Bailey

Which Philip Glass work is played for the first minute of this trailer? - @Monday, November 24, 2014 4:52 AM

Julika Sophia Baran

I really want to watch this, seems to be awesome ♥ - @Thursday, November 13, 2014 7:48 PM

danilo de candia

what is the name of the song at the minute 0.30??..please! - @Wednesday, November 12, 2014 2:57 PM

Lisa Giles

Ooh! - @Friday, November 7, 2014 1:59 AM

Phoebie A

So excited for this! - @Thursday, November 6, 2014 5:34 AM

Meera

it looks interesting - @Wednesday, November 5, 2014 11:59 PM