“We danced with Disney characters in Times Square,” exclaims Cassiel Eatock of joining fellow teenage ballerinas Isabel Ball and Elizabeth Van Genderen’s pirouetting jaunt through the streets of Manhattan. “I loved them watching us do our steps and fouettés down the street. It gave our performance energy.”

The tween dance-off comes courtesy of director Crystal Moselle who captured the girls in “Shapeshifting,” the new music video for Lindsay Mound and Justin William Lin’s New York-based synth-pop duo, Color War. Moselle followed the girls—all of whom were attending New York's American Ballet Theater Summer Intensive Program—for a single after-school session.



“We were really vibing on a coming-of-age story; a very precious moment that could be expressed through these young girls who seemed to be at various stages of adolescence,” Mound says, working with stylist Julie Brooke Williams. “I had one of the ballerinas wear a Smashing Pumpkins t-shirt that I’ve had since I was 13. I got it at my first concert and thought it would be cool to see it on a teenager from another generation.” 

It Could Only Be This Wayby Color War is out now on Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.