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Dancing On The Edge: A Ski Ballet Story
2025
Ski Ballet - The very first disciplines of free skiing. It gained recognition as a demonstration event at the 1992 Winter Olympics, only to fade into obscurity soon after.
This film explores the rise and decline of Ski Ballet. The final generation of its athletes is still with us today. In the winter of 2024, we hosted the largest Ski Ballet event in two decades in Verbier, Switzerland, bringing together the entire community for what may have been the sport’s last dance—or was it?
Full Film
Stills Series
A series of stills of the sundial.
After a week of work, the design took life. The result was a massive sundial at the foot of the Matterhorn.
How It Started
In 2022, Fabrice Becker repeated his Olympic Champion run of 1992, 30 years later.
BALLET'S BACK.
The MGG team saw the film and got inspired to collaborate on a campaign for their clothing line. After a few month of preparation, we shot MGG's 2023 campaign, BALLET'S BACK. (2023). This is the result of the campaign.
The film crew consisted mostly of people who lived their whole life in the Alps and we believed we had seen it all. And here is a discipline being performed that we had never seen. Everyone was shocked, in a good way. The campaign was released and it went viral. Many were asking us what this discipline is and why they had never seen this. People were asking for the story so we decided we had to make a longer format film that told the story of Ski Ballet.
We took the decision in March 2024, two months prior to the closing of our home resort Verbier. We invited everyone we could find in the Ski Ballet community, most of which had not seen each other in over 30 years, for a reunion and a Ski Ballet event. It was a gamble but the odds were in our favour and many showed up.
We held the event, documented as much of it as possible, conducted 3 days of interviews around the event, and the filing was done. We spent the next months editing all the footage and the 22min film above is the result of that work.
Crew
Executive Producers Thomas Bata & Charlie Cazalet
Producer and Director Scott Goedkoop
Cinematography Scott Goedkoop |Jacob Nilzen | Michael Lasanta | Loic Isliker
High Speed Cinematography Julien Regnier
Key Grip & Gaffer Sebastien Biollaz
Archive Film Gabi Becker
Editor Paul Cockcroft
Assistant editors Scott Goedkoop & Jacob Nilzen
Color Grading Stéphane Ma
Soundtrack, Sound Mix & Sound Design Antoine Seychal
Event Manager and Photographer Thibaut Lampe
Stylist Paola Colleoni
In the past, producing content of such high quality would require at the very least, a full week of post-production.
For this project, we were granted less than 24 hours of turnover per film. Our only possible way to success was by leveraging our dedicated team of experts alongside the latest technologies such as cloud-based editing softwares, cloud storage, hyper fast fiber optic internet, etc. With no room for error, having a tight knit team who was intimately familiar with these technologies was pivotal, and truly our only path to success. We seamlessly transitioned from shooting, to editing, to animating to Color-grading, and all that within hours of offloading our cameras.
Another massive challenge we faced was shooting for all the different formats in which the films had to be delivered. The films you see here were all delivered in 16x9 (landscape) as well as in 9x16 (portrait) for vertical video. It was not only paramount to understand the technical intricacies of what this means, but most importantly to shoot it correctly. Finally, we even went as far as delivering specific ad-hoc formats for the screens at the venue of the dinner party event.
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