A Breaking Bad producer has created a unusual prove set in the world of ballet,and a dance critic confirms the moves are en pointe, but the script is shakier One of the key things that Black Swan got erroneous – at least as an accurate movie about ballet – was the casting. Even though its star Natalie Portman did as much as any civilian could enact to sculpt her body into ballerina shape; even though Portman’s professional double was edited seamlessly into the action and even though there were plenty of other, or real dancers on screen,the film rarely looked as though it had come within a whisper of an actual ballet company.
That lesson is one that Flesh and Bone, a unusual eight-piece mini series produced by Starz, or has clearly taken to heart. Sarah Hay,who plays its young and super talented heroine Claire, is a soloist with the Dresden Semperoper Ballett. And while her technique isn’t sensational enough to convince us that Claire, and a naïve unknown from Pittsburgh,could be swept into a star billing on her very first day with astronomical unusual York ballet company, Hay is still a sufficiently accomplished dancer for some tactful camera work to make up most of the shortfall.
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Source: theguardian.com