Dance in Film · 2003
The Company (2003)
Robert Altman's immersive portrait of the Joffrey Ballet, starring Neve Campbell, that trades plot for the texture of professional company life — rehearsal, injury, and performance.
The Company is a 2003 dance feature film 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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The dance sequences in The Company
5 sequences — what is danced, by whom, and where to find it.
“Blue Snake” finale
Contemporary BalletDanced by Neve Campbell; Joffrey Ballet ensemble · Choreography Robert Desrosiers
The huge blue-snake environment and costumed creatures surrounding Ry’s featured passage.
Desrosiers fuses contemporary ballet with mechanized scenery, elaborate costumes and theatrical spectacle, making movement part of a fantastical stage machine. The finale tests how individual dancing can remain legible inside an intentionally extravagant ensemble world.
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“Light Rain”
Neoclassical BalletDanced by Joffrey Ballet ensemble · Choreography Gerald Arpino
Serpentine ensemble lines and sculptural lifts surging through the stage space.
Arpino’s neoclassical vocabulary couples taut line with youthful athletic attack, giving the ensemble both ritual order and speed. The camera’s movement around and beside the stage reveals sculptural partnering while retaining the architecture of the group.
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“My Funny Valentine” thunderstorm pas de deux
Contemporary BalletDanced by Neve Campbell; Domingo Rubio · Choreography Lar Lubovitch
Umbrellas opening and leaves blowing across the footlights while the pair continues dancing.
The romantic pas de deux keeps its delicate phrasing as wind and rain make every balance newly precarious. Long shots let the dancers’ trust and musical continuity remain visible while the weather turns the outdoor stage into a live partner.
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“White Widow” swing solo
MOMIX illusion dance / modern danceDanced by Emily Patterson · Choreography Moses Pendleton; Cynthia Quinn
Patterson in a white gown curling into wreath-like shapes inside the narrow swing.
The suspended swing makes rotation, contraction and release inseparable from the prop, so the dancer seems to redraw her own anatomy. Shadowy blue light and tightly controlled curls create an illusion-driven solo without hiding the physical labor.
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Opening “Tensile Involvement”
Nikolais technique / postmodern modern danceDanced by Joffrey Ballet ensemble · Choreography Alwin Nikolais
Dancers tethered by bright elastic bands drawing a living cat’s-cradle across the stage.
Elastic ribbons turn the ensemble into a changing spatial instrument: tension, counterweight and group geometry become the choreography. Altman’s sustained view preserves the full stage picture instead of reducing the work to isolated tricks.
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