Born to Wild: The Leading Men of American Ballet Theater

(Robert) Masseo Davis
Feb/ 15/ 2008
Born to be Wild: Leading Men of American Ballet Theater

Born to be Wild: Leading Men of American Ballet Theater,
Directed by Judy Kinberg.


Rating: 4/5

This film is a documentary short that follows Mark Morris a famous modern dance choreographer as he sets a new work on the four leading men of American Ballet theater. The film stars along with Mark Morris acclaimed ballet dancers, Jose Manuel Carreno, Angle Corella, Vladimir Malakhov, and Ethan Stiefel.
The film is nice because even people who don’t know anything about dance can enjoy it. Not only does the film document the new work being created by Mark Morris but also it gives little vignette type biographies about each of the performers in the film as well as talk about the dance world in general.
It’s a fun, simple, fast, watch with a total running time of 54mins. The film concludes with the performance of Mark Morris’s new work for the men who normally would rarely ever perform together because each of them are to busy taking on leading roles in separate ballet pieces. In a sense this ballet is a rare sight because it not only is the coming together of the Titians of ballet but it is a filming of male dancing. While the dance women, to watch a film that pays tribute to the men is a treasure, consume world’s population.