New Starz Series Spotlights Seedier Side of Ballet

Premium
channel Starz has recently ordered a new pilot entitled
“Flesh and Bone” that will focus on the nasty side of
the ballet world. Described as a “TV version of Black
Swan”, the new series will focus on a young ballerina
(Sarah Hay) at a prestigious New York company who
has a bit of a seedy past of her own. The minds behind the show
include Inglorious Bastards producer Lawrence
Bender and “Breaking Bad” co-executive
producer Moira Walley-Beckett, both of whom are
former ballet dancers. The series will not be anything like the
late “Bunheads”, which was a fun little romp while it
lasted; instead, the show will be gritty, dark, and dysfunctional
(no word yet on whether or not any of the dancers will also sell
meth...).
Hay herself is a bonafide ballerina, who has danced with the Dresden Semperpoer Ballet company in Germany. Additional cast members are also talented dancers, including former American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Irina Dvorovenko (pictured), ABT soloist Sascha Radetsky, and Ballet Arizona Company dancer Raychel Diane Weiner. Dare we hope for a cameo by Mikhail Baryshnikov?
(Photo via Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
- Sarah Osman, YH Staff