The Dancer on the Staten Island Ferry

In case you missed it, this New York Times Sun­day Mag­a­zine sto­ry offers a great exam­ple of How We Live/­Dance/­Film/­Self-Finance these days.

What we have here is a sev­en minute col­lab­o­ra­tion between direc­tor Jacob Krup­nick and clas­si­cal­ly-trained bal­let refugee Anne Marsen. Shot gueril­la-style on the Stat­en Island Fer­ry, the video fea­tures Marsen’s gid­dy pas­tiche of hip hop, bal­let, mod­ern and jazz dance. The sound­track is also a pas­tiche of sorts, an excerpt from mashup DJ Girl Talk’s new album, “All Day.”

Grup­nick post­ed the clip above as a teas­er on the crowd­fund­ing site Kick­starter in Jan­u­ary, hop­ing to raise enough mon­ey to make it into a full-length dance film. He met his fundrais­ing goal with­in 6 days, and the team starts shoot­ing in April.

A note: It takes about two min­utes for the action to real­ly kick in, and if you’re lis­ten­ing to it from an office, be sure to turn the vol­ume down first.

Sheer­ly Avni is a San Fran­cis­co-based arts and cul­ture writer. Her work has appeared in Salon, LA Week­ly, Vari­ety, Moth­er Jones, and many oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. You can fol­low her on twit­ter at @sheerly.