Get Happy with The Washington Ballet in This Super-Colorful Vid

March 22, 2017

What do you think when you hear “Washington, D.C.” these days? Actually, no, bad question—don’t tell us. But odds are good that “joy” wasn’t the first word that came to mind.

A new video starring the fabulous dancers of The Washington Ballet just might change that. Commissioned by the shopping and dining development CityCenterDC, it aims to re-brand the capitol as the “District of Joy”—by showing colorfully attired artists frolicking through the cityscape, performing charmingly dorky ’60s-style choreo by former TWB director Septime Webre.

Webre told The Washington Post that his inspirations were West Side Story and the 1967 French musical The Young Girls of Rochefort. But those of us who just saw/fell in love with La La Land—so, all of us—will notice a lot of parallels between the smash-hit film and this vid. They’re both exactly the kind of vibrant, optimistic fun the world needs right now.


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