http://www.nowness.com/day/2013/6/11/3093/hallberg-at-work?ecid=soc1268
Hallberg at Work
The International Ballet Sensation Shows Off Some Bold New Moves
Through
the bustle of Manhattan’s busy streets, down a nondescript hallway and
into American Ballet Theater’s bright NYC studios, one of the world’s
preeminent male dancers, David Hallberg, invites us into his fervid
world in this dynamic short by director Eric K. Yue. “It’s less about
the dance or context of a story, but rather a state of mind,” says Yue
of his glimpse into the dancer’s tender preparation. “David makes the
most difficult and complex moves seem effortless and elegant.”
Contemporary Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds’ track “Brim” taken from From Now I am Winter accompanies
the progressive movement as Hallberg leaps through the space, twisting
and contorting to original choreography created specifically for this
film, by friend and fellow ABT dancer Marcelo Gomes. “There was no
preconceived notion of how a role has been portrayed in the past, like Swan Lake or Sleeping Beauty,”
says Hallberg of performing for the short, which was produced by
Forever Pictures. “It is really intimate because the camera is so close,
whereas at the Met you have to project to an audience hundreds of feet
away.” Principal dancer at New York’s American Ballet Theater, the
Dakotan bridged the transatlantic gap in a historic milestone as the
first American to join Moscow’s prestigious Bolshoi Ballet in 2011, now
spanning the distance as leading man at both. The cultural polymath
dominated the pages of April’s AmericanVogue, shot by photographer Annie Leibovitz in a dramatic editorial, and he also featured in the latest issue of CR Fashion Book, now seating him firmly in the eye-line of the fashion masses, and dance enthusiasts, alike.
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