Yoyo (film), 2021

“It could mean so many things. And I think that's what's so great about dance on film—you can watch it again and again and again.”

NYCB Soloist Georgina Pazcoguin,

‘The important thing for me when approaching choreography on film is to create a world and an experience that is different from watching dance on stage. It’s not about filming a piece of dance but rather creating a world of which dance is an essential element.’

 

‘Yoyo was created in a week as part of my third session with the New York Choreographic Institute. It is a short piece created  via Zoom, filmed inside The Cornell Tech Building with four dancers from the New York City Ballet. Inspired by the architecture of the building, using its different levels the intention of the piece was to create a surreal world in suspension, cut off from the outside. The tension of the piece builds until things begin to spiral and then moves to look outwards with greater dynamism and energy.’

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Yoyo(film), Juin 2021
Commission: Adrian Danchig-Waring,New York Choreographic Institute Summer Session
Co-Directed and Edited by: Peter Walker and Emily KIKTA 
Dancers: New York City Ballet; Daniel Applebaum, Preston Chamblee, Meaghan Dutton-O’Hara, Georgina Pazcoguin
Length: 7min20
Music: Johann Johannsson:A Deal with Chaos / Joshua Crining: Ortis 

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“ I'm very open to Sophie’s approach, which is more scenario-based; she would give us a feeling or a visual, and a mood board. With anything that I'm doing in the various offshoots of my artistic career, like acting, being open to this kind of approach is really important. So it was great to utilize those learned techniques in a way that was being applied to dance. I like that sort of cerebral approach.”

NYCB Soloist Georgina Pazcoguin,