News From the NYT Moving on and Looking Back: A Ballet Star’s Afterlife

[Wolfe]

Moving on and Looking Back: A Ballet Star’s Afterlife
     

<img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/08/arts/soto75.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left">Jock Soto, who retired from New York City Ballet in 2005, has a more interesting story than most, and it is at least partly told in “Water Flowing Together,” a documentary on PBS’s “Independent Lens” series this week.
     

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/arts/television/08soto.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
     

[snowbak]

Funny, all the things the reviewer points out as flaws in the film are all the things I associate with Jock Soto. They say that the film is vague, never really exploring deeper into who he is, but that is just it. Jock Soto was there when I was at SAB. He danced. That is what we all knew of him. We never heard about his personal life like we did with the other dancers in the Company. He was there forever. Every image I think of from NYCB has him in it. He was just this larger than life persona, but what you saw on stage was all you really ever knew off him. I am curious to see the film. From the description, it sounds like she portrayed him perfectly, despite what the reviewer thinks.

[Wolfe]

Here is a preview from PBS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgkMlCDCG5A

[Flash]

Kind of an iffy review, I'd say. There is this problem with the public perception of "famous" people; they are much more interested in the "dirt" than the work. Jock Soto was all about the work.