Crystal Pite: Wordless Language
Through a duet of poetry and self-reflection, choreographer Crystal Pite finds language to describe the wordless artform of dance.
Through a duet of poetry and self-reflection, choreographer Crystal Pite finds language to describe the wordless artform of dance.
Crystal Pite
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Through a duet of poetry and self-reflection, choreographer Crystal Pite finds language to describe the wordless artform of dance.
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
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In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
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An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.
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