Dancer Jock Soto Looks Back on a Life in Tights (and Fishnets)

When Jock Soto retired from the New York City Ballet three years ago, he’d spent a quarter-century becoming one of the most celebrated male dancers in the company’s history. Half Navajo and half Puerto Rican, stocky and athletic, Soto didn’t fit the danseur noble mold, but his grace and strength as a soloist and fame as the surest of partners (famously to iconic ballerinas Heather Watts, Lourdes Lopez, and Wendy Whelan) cemented his reputation as one of the most universally beloved dancers in New York. PBS’s Independent Lens today airs Water Flowing Together, a documentary about Soto’s career and rediscovery of his heritage. Vulture caught up with Soto, who now spends his days running a catering business with his partner, and talked to him about the dances in his past and the cooking show in his future.

Now that you’re retired, is it strange to see all this footage from your career?
I first saw it in San Francisco at the gay and lesbian film festival there, and it was kind of shocking! I felt like I was watching somebody else. It was quite emotional.”*

*From: nymag.com
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