Washington Ballet dancers in the “District of Joy” video. The dancers are from the Washington Ballet, and the video was choreographed by Septime Webre, the company’s former artistic director. “Oh, my God, that took hours,” Webre says with a laugh. That both “West Side Story” and “The Young Girls of Rochefort” also helped inspire the Emma Stone-Ryan Gosling dance film “La La Land” is a happy coincidence, Webre says. “There’s a time,” he adds, “for just jumping for joy.”Related stories: Should ‘La La Land’ win Best Picture?

Source: Washington Post February 22, 2017 16:36 UTC