American - Dancer | September 8, 1987 -
The reason I started dancing in the first place was my dad took me to see 'Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In 'da Funk' when I was 9.
Justin Peck
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Balanchine is the number one influence for me. His work was really musically driven. He and Jerome Robbins were the ones who really showed me that dance could be about the inner relation between movement and music. When I was a student first seeing their work, I was like, 'Oh, this is a thing?'
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I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it.
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I grew up going on vacations with my family to New York every summer, and it's something that I always looked forward to. They'd take me to theater and shows and interesting restaurants, so I was genuinely really excited to move there.
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I really enjoyed watching a ballerina named Denise Dabrowski who used to dance at California Ballet. She was a beautiful ballerina and role model for a lot of young dancers.
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Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then it's about how far you want to push from there.
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I feel like there is a different, new energy when I collaborate with a living artist, whether it be a composer, designer, lighting designer. I love that process.
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There needs to be more encouragement and support for women - at an impressionable age - to explore that choreographic side of their brains.
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I think ballet is pretty open about what music is used, actually.
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