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SXSW event: NY Export: Opus Jazz
Folks lined up in the rain Tuesday to glimpse a unique take on dance/cinema history at the Alamo Ritz. “NY Export: Opus Jazz,” like a long-lost sibling to “West Side Story,” takes a vintage ballet by Jerome Robbins and restages it in the disused swimming pools and industrial spaces of contemporary New York City.
Audience members might have wondered why the visually gorgeous film, shot in a wider screen format than perhaps any other SXSW entry, was projected not on celluloid but on video, but the hourlong screening still felt like an event.
Some of the filmmaking team, including dancers from the New York City Ballet, came out for a brief Q&A about the production, which will air on PBS’s “Great Performances” this year.
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