We’re getting our first look at Starz’s ballet drama Flesh And Bone. The eight-hour limited series follows a young dancer with a distinctly troubled past as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York. The curtain rises on November 8.
Shot entirely in NYC, Flesh And Bone is described as a dark, gritty, complex series that unflinchingly explores the city through the eyes of Claire, played by Black Swan‘s Sarah Hay, an emotionally wounded but transcendent ballerina navigating the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world. Claire’s self-destructive tendencies amid her vaulting ambitions drive her in compelling, unforeseeable ways, especially when she is confronted with the machinations of the company’s mercurial Artistic Director, played by Ben Daniels (House Of Cards) and an unwelcome visitor from her past.
Flesh And Bone was created by Breaking Bad writer/executive producer Moira Walley-Beckett. John Melfi (House Of Cards), Lawrence Bender (Inglourious Basterds) and Kevin Brown (Roswell) are exec producers. Australian filmmaker David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) directed the first episode.
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The cast includes 22 accomplished ballet dancers including former American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Irina Dvorovenko (Kiira), former American Ballet Theatre soloist Sascha Radetsky (Ross), Ballet Arizona company dancer Raychel Diane Weiner (Daphne) and Boardwalk Empire’s Emily Tyra (Mia). Ethan Stiefel, former artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet and a former American Ballet Theatre principal dancer, served as consultant and choreographer. Other cast members include Josh Helman (X-Men: Days of Future Past), Damon Herriman (Justified), Tina Benko (The Good Wife) and Tovah Feldshuh (The Walking Dead).
I saw this when it was called Black Swan. Then I saw the rehash when it was called Whiplash.
Anyway, it’s bringing good people work.
What does Whiplash have to do with Black Swan? Because they both have to do with music? They aren’t even clue to the same.
Don’t you recall that scene where Miles Teller performs his furious dance in leotards? (or am I thinking of Mario Lopez on “Saved By the Bell”?)
That’s gritty!?? Pass.
I’m looking forward to this. The dancing looks great.
Hard to tell anything based on that. A lot will depend on the charisma of the lead actress and whether the teacher is really the flaming tantrum throwing cliche that he appears to be…
Looks good to me. can’t please everyone. theres enough other crap on anyway. and why would a story of ballet remind anyone of Whiplash ?
I take it you’ve never completed multiple pirouettes?
This looks amazing!!!! What is w/ all the negative comments. #pplbetrippin!
***Hasn’t seen the show or read any of the script***
“Yawn, must be another Black Swan clone, since the only story about the ballet world that could ever be told was covered in that one film from a few years ago.”
Give me a fucking break, people.
I’ve seen it. Disappointedly cliché and over the top. Very straightforward with narrow appeal.
So how’d you see it? I’m actually working on it and haven’t seen it all. Or are you just someone who saw 5 minutes in an edit bay on the lot and are now a total know all mealy mouthed authority?If the latter I think I may know you :)
And even if it is of ” narrow appeal” why is that bad?
My parents have never watched The Wire or Breaking Bad and yet they watch an awful lot of television.
The 5 episodes of Flesh and Bone that I’ve seen are spectacularly entertaining and beautifully performed.
Give everyone a break and wait until it’s available in its entirety before getting so uppity.
If it’s so “spectacularly entertaining” why no second season?
Oh come on. You know there are a lots of reasons why shows don’t get picked up again.
I think if it was as ” disappointedly cliché and over the top. Very straightforward with narrow appeal.” as you say Starz wouldn’t dream of giving it such a prime Sunday night slot.
It wouldn’t even be shown!
I read the script. Fleek as heck :):):) Cannot wait! :D
Also, to those saying just because it’s dark (& about ballet) it’s gotta be a Black Swan clone?! Grow up. Also, since y’all are such freeking clairvoyant geniuses, how about you explain to me what an original experience is?! We all have the same experiences over and over again. It’s those same experiences being written about for centuries. Just in different ways. As Jay McInerney put it in BLBC, “Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.” It’s the little things that make a story stand out. Just like it’s the little things that make people stand out. So chill. And stop hating on this for no reason. Also, Starz is pretty much made up of the guys that made HBO the huge name it is today. So I think they know what they’re doing :) Y’all, on the other hand, trashing something you haven’t even seen?! Real sharp.
I’ve been looking forward to this.
me too!!
since when did it become frigid to be a small town virgin? i’m not fridgid :D
pass!