NYC Ballet Site Specific Dance Pieces Performed Inside Cornell Tech Buildings On Roosevelt Island Campus Showing Magnificent Manhattan Skyline Views - Watch And Enjoy

According to Cornell Tech: 

This summer Cornell Tech worked on a new collaboration with the New York Choreographic Institute, in which dancers from New York City Ballet performed site-specific ballet pieces all over campus, including along the majestic Manhattan skyline views on the top floors of several of academic buildings....

NYC Ballet's new dance film was shot at @cornell_tech with help from DLI Research Fellow Michael Byrne. Check out the video below, and read more about the making of the film here: https://t.co/bfq13HNsQj https://t.co/emrJE11Ilu

— Digital Life Initiative @ Cornell Tech (@dlicornelltech) August 26, 2021

The NYC Ballet adds:

In keeping with its more than two decade-long history of fostering and celebrating the work of international dancemakers, the New York Choreographic Institute held a partially-virtual summer session this past May. Though this marks the third session to be capped by the production of dance films, it was a “first” in many ways: The choreographers, Sophie Laplane and Alysa Pires, quarantined in Glasgow, Scotland, and Toronto, Canada, respectively, collaborated over Zoom with NYCB dancers who were finally able to gather in a shared studio space; and the films were produced on the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, NY, through a unique alliance with Digital Life Initiative Research Fellow Michael Byrne. 

The resulting films represent the Institute’s ongoing commitment to the creation of new works as well as to the support of new ideas and new creative partnerships at the forefront of contemporary choreography....

Watch NYC Ballet performing at Roosevelt Island Cornell Tech campus.

 

Learn more from the artists making these films.

The Ballerina Project Visits Roosevelt Island F Train Subway Station - Underneath The Queensboro Bridge Too

The Roosevelt Island Twitterverse reports:

Photo: ballerinaproject: Nicola - Roosevelt Island, New York City Help the continuation of the Ballerina... http://t.co/dHzCR4fLwj
— Cassandra Wood (@cas_hwood) January 14, 2015

According to the Ballerina Project:

Like a dream becoming reality the Ballerina Project is an ongoing series of photographs created by photographer: Dane Shitagi. Constructed over the span of 14 years the Ballerina Project is not your typical “dance photography” but an etching of a ballerinas heart and emotions.

Every aspect of the Ballerina Project is carefully crafted and cultivated. The majority of ballerinas who have posed for the project are currently or have danced for companies such as American Ballet Theater, Boston Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Dresden Semperopera Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Ballet West, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. Other ballerinas are in schools such as School of American Ballet and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. The crafts of dance and photography are truly upheld on both ends of the creation of the Ballerina Project....

The Ballerina Project danced beneath the Queensboro Bridge with the East River and Roosevelt Island as background too.



More information on the Ballerina Project at their web site.

Young Roosevelt Island Ballerinas Practice Outdoors On Southtown Ledge

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The girls were on the way for refreshments at Starbucks.