New York City Ballet 2021 Spring Gala

Watch on YouTube

littlerhymes sent me a link to the New York City Ballet’s 2021 Spring Gala, directed by Sofia Coppola, which is online till May 27. It’s a half hour long, mostly focusing on the dancing (as one days in a gala) but with some delightful Coppola touches, like the opening shot (in dramatic black and white) of a storeroom full of ballet shoes, or a few brief shots of the dancers chatting backstage.

I for one would love to see Coppola do a ballet movie, like Black Swan except more Coppola. Less body horror, more gauzy tutus, the ballet studio a dreamily suffocating enclosed world, like the Lisbon sisters’ home in The Virgin Suicides or the girls’ school in The Beguiled.