Ballet Now

Tiler Peck is such a gorgeous, elegant and most talented ballerina. She is so decent with a larger-than-life character. A very unpretentious and humble real person, so pure and so calm. If you got the chance to watch this documentary, you'd be delighted to find out that you'd have a great viewing experience like all of the audiences who attended her ballet show with fantastic new concepts and trials that have brought the ballet into a new modern level. A wonderful and excited viewing experience. Not only Ms. Peck is a great ballet dancer, she's also a great artist.

But OK. Tiler Peck is a very talented dancer who can do 27 pirouettes on a dime. But she's no Gelsey Kirkland or Suzanne Farrell or a Sylvie Guillem. Lots of big smile bravado, sure, but I don't feel any emotional depth or passion emanating from her. Anyway, I enjoyed some of the rehearsal scenes, but I found 2/3 of this movie meh. Too much "The Tiler Peck Show"/ "Tiler did you eat your sandwich?" fawning mom and grandma stuff for me. The clown skit might have been better if Ms. Peck had dropped the ballerina goofy and went full whacky Carol Burnett mode goofy. The final mash-up finale piece was lively chaos, but with no real vision, drama or edginess. I was expecting Ms. Peck to get into some actual hip-hop herself; She didn't. But maybe that was a good thing. Even without the tutu and pink tights business, Ms. Peck is a precision ballerina-ist to her core. (Attention Hollywood: Tiler Peck would make for a stylin' android in a sci-fi movie.)

Would have liked to see much more about the pieces that had other dancers featured. This seemed too focused on Tiler. She has a nice smile, yet it becsme obnoxious withe all of the zooming in on her grin. Appreciated the dancers!

The dancing was fantastic and the woman at the center of it (Ballerina Tiler Peck who curating the live showcase and starred in it) is as effervescent and likeable as she is talented and strong. It was fun to watch the dances in their various stages of choreography and rehearsal all the way through to performance night. I do think the documentary could have done a better job of helping us understand the breadth of the show. There were really only 4 dances that were featured in the documentary, but you can see by the costumes and clips of other dancers that the show had a lot more. I understand with the time constraint of a film that there wasn't time to go in depth into every dance, but I would have liked to have been given an overview into what the entire show included. A very entertaining and positive inside look at the world of dance!