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Altoona native and New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin will give her final performance Sunday, but she’ll remain in the performance art world.
“Fresh & Fierce” includes George Balanchine’s “Divertimento No. 15,” Jerome Robbins’ “West Side Story Suite,” and Durante Verzola’s world premiere “Sentimiento.”
Miami City Ballet’s “Fresh & Fierce” includes: Durante Verzola's "Sentimiento," Jerome Robbins’ “West Side Story Suite,” and George Balanchine’s “Divertimento No. 15.″
At one point in the making of the new movie version of "West Side Story," Justin Peck, the film's choreographer, found himself careening around the studio with Steven Spielberg, pushing the director in a swivel chair so he could shoot the dancers with his phone.
Choreographer Justin Peck grew up with “West Side Story.” The son of a New York City father and an Argentine immigrant mother, he was first shown the 1961 movie musical when he was very young — the family by then lived in California, and Peck thinks his parents were feeling nostalgic. “I was so enamored by what I witnessed,” Peck said, in a Zoom interview earlier this month. “Seeing men perform and express themselves through movement was something I couldn’t fully comprehend, but something I knew I wanted to seek out.” He studied dance, came to New York at 15, and eventually became a member of New York City Ballet, where he is now acting resident choreographer.