User:Czar/k/drafts/Girl Walk

Production
Art photographer Jacob Krupnick met dancer Anne Marsen in mid-2009 during a promotional video shoot he coordinated for a footwear fashion show. Marsen, who trained in high-intensity ballet and had recently dropped out of University of the Arts in Philadelphia, performed a freestyle dance that blended a variety of styles from classes she had been taking across New York City. The dynamism and confidence of her routine impressed Krupnick, and the two sought a larger collaboration project.

Several months later, in November 2008, the mashup disc jockey Girl Talk released All Day, a chaotic album based on samples from 373 popular songs. Krupnick related his experience of the frenetic album to that of watching Marsen's high-intensity, genre-bending freestyle. They decided to create a dance music video in which Marsen would dance the length of the 71-minute album across the island of Manhattan. A month after the album's release, they shot sample footage guerrilla-style on the early-morning Staten Island Ferry with two additional dancers and Krupnick's wife while avoiding security guards. Krupnick condensed the footage to a preview trailer and uploaded it online, where it received little attention until it was picked up by Gothamist and The Huffington Post in January 2010. Later that month, Krupnick started a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise the remaining funds needed to finish and distribute the film. They surpassed their $4,800 goal within a week and ultimately raised five times that amount.

Marsen spent the campaign period in Mumbai, where she couchsurfed and took an intensive dance class. The project's success defied her preconceptions of paths to success in the dance industry and reaffirmed her decision to pursue her nontraditional, hybrid technique.

Krupnick shot the video in April 2010.

Reception
trailer: joyous, weird, youth, energy

Marsen unassuming as a "dorky amateur" rather than a professional dancer, magic a minute in