New York City Ballet 2018 19 Season First Comes Sweat. Then Comes Beauty

The job of a ballerina is beautiful and sweaty, as evidenced in a new video, directed by Ryan Marie Helfant, promoting the New York City Ballets upcoming 20182019 season. In the video, New York City Ballet dancers including Joseph Gordon, Maria Kowroski, Indiana Woodward, and Lauren Lovette train and dance in an empty warehouse using medicine balls and industrial ballet bars made from metal pipes. Beads of sweat roll off the dancers bodies as scenes of them training in allblack athletic gear are interspersed with shots of them gliding across a temporary stage in gossamer dresses and pointe shoes.