Dance in Film · 2014
Ballet 422 (2014)
Justin Peck creating Paz de la Jolla offers a rare end-to-end index of choreographic development, rehearsal, production and premiere.
Ballet 422 is a 2014 dance documentary centred on ballroom and social dance. For dancers, it's a chance to see the style performed on screen — the phrasing, partnering, and musicality that the same dances carry onto a real floor.
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Where to watch: Magnolia Pictures and local streaming/rental listings
Trailer
Official trailer.
The dance sequences in Ballet 422
3 sequences — what is danced, by whom, and where to find it.
Paz de la Jolla premiere — waves and geometric ensemble
Classical BalletDanced by Sterling Hyltin; Tiler Peck; Amar Ramasar; New York City Ballet original cast · Choreography Justin Peck
Shimmering blue-clad dancers swelling and receding across the stage as the corps becomes the Pacific surf.
The premiere material reveals how studio fragments become stage architecture: the 18-dancer cast forms quick geometric patterns, then turns interlacing bodies and diagonal surges into a human image of ocean waves.
Open the film at this point · Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. NYCB confirms the 18-dancer original cast, January 31, 2013 premiere, and Justin Peck choreography; the Juilliard/Musical America review explicitly describes a classical ballet lexicon. Apple’s opened 75-minute film page supplies paid access. No timestamp was inferred.
Paz de la Jolla principal rehearsals
Classical BalletDanced by Tiler Peck; Sterling Hyltin; Amar Ramasar · Choreography Justin Peck
Justin Peck quietly testing and refining phrases with three senior dancers who understand corrections almost before they are spoken.
The rehearsal-room passages expose choreography as live problem-solving: Peck and three principals trade physical shorthand, corrections, and repeated phrases until speed and geometry begin to read as effortless ballet.
Open the film at this point · Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Film at Lincoln Center identifies the film as a 2014 work; Apple lists its commercial release as 2015 and copyright as 2014. Apple’s opened 75-minute page supplies the paid-access deep link. No edition-specific timestamp was inferred.
Peck returns to the stage after his own premiere
Jerome Robbins choreography (work unspecified)Danced by Justin Peck · Choreography Jerome Robbins
The newly celebrated choreographer shedding his suit, changing into costume, and perspiring through someone else’s choreography minutes later.
After watching his first large commission premiere and taking a bow, Peck changes from choreographer into corps dancer and immediately returns to the stage, compressing the film’s argument about artistic labor into one bodily transition.
Open the film at this point · Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Dance Informa identifies the post-premiere stage material only as Jerome Robbins choreography, so no work title or taxonomy style was inferred. The verified LODance Legend slug is jerome-robbins. Apple’s opened 75-minute film page supplies paid access; no timestamp was inferred.
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