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Water Flowing Together

WATER FLOWING TOGETHER (Gwendolen Cates). 77 minutes. Friday (August 21), 10 pm.

The two-weekend-long Planet IndigenUs Festival, a cross-disciplinary event celebrating the world’s various indigenous people, wraps up this weekend at venues throughout the city. The film component is pretty strong. All screenings take place at Harbourfront’s Studio Theatre (235 Queens Quay West). See listings. Rating: NNNN


Born to a Navajo mother and a Puerto Rican father, future New York City Ballet star dancer Jock Soto grew up in New Mexico, where he learned to hoop dance at age three and got the ballet bug after watching a sequence on the Ed Sullivan Show.

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Director Gwendolen Cates follows him as he prepares to retire from the stage, sprinkling in stories by NYCB luminaries. Footage of Soto dancing always reinforces what the subjects are saying, and it all leads fluidly to his climactic farewell performances.

Adding texture and emotion are the interviews with Soto’s down-to-earth parents, nomads who travelled the country in an RV and barely saw their son after he moved to Manhattan as a teenager.

Soto himself has some of their unpretentious style, and emerges in interviews and in his moving trips back to their respective homes as a class act.

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