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American Ballet Theatre

It's His Company Now

“Songs of Bukovina,” “Symphonic Variations,” “Other Dances,” “Serenade after Plato’s Symposium”
American Ballet Theatre
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
October 21, 2017 afternoon

The two ballets by Alexei Ratmansky on the program, including his newest work, were vibrant and full of life. Meanwhile iconic works by Ashton and Robbins were more or less dead on arrival. On Saturday afternoon at ABT, if you needed proof positive that it’s Ratmansky’s company now, the dancers his,

American Ballet Theatre

Different Notes

"Her Notes", "Symphonic Variations", "Other Dances", "Thirteen Diversions"
American Ballet Theatre
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
October 22, 2017, matinee

ABT's Sunday matinee showcased four ballets choreographed to concert music, music which was originally intended to stand alone. The choreographers all faced the challenge of improving, so to speak, the original works of art, and though all works were very well danced and had impressive moments, only Ashton's "Symphonic Variations" melded the steps, the atmosphere,

American Ballet Theatre

Corps' Night Off

"Her Notes", "Symphonic Variations", "Other Dances", "Serenade After Plato's Symposium"
American Ballet Theatre
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
October 19, 2017

American Ballet Theatre has long had a dual identity in New York. In the spring at the Metropolitan Opera, the company presents itself as the guardian of 19th century imperial Russian tradition. Spectacle, scale, hierarchy rule. The fall season, at the home theater of the New York City Ballet, is more egalitarian. Mixed bills provide

Monk on Monk

"Dancing Voices"
Meredith Monk and the Young People's Chorus of New York
Lincoln Center White Light Festival
New York
October 20, 2017

As an artist Meredith Monk has never done just one thing at a time. With “Dancing Voices,” which helped kick off Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival this weekend, she attempts both a retrospective of her own career as composer-choreographer and a transmission of her dharma to a new generation of artists.

Pioneer, Apprentice, Perfectionist

DEMO: Jerome Robbins – American Dance Genius
Terrace Theater
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
October 20, 2017

The centennial of Jerome Robbins’ birth in 2018 will spur big celebrations. This first one, part of Damian Woetzel’s Demo series, was small in scale and simple in format. Oddly, it suited the ballet choreographer and director of musicals, movies and television productions who had started as an American character dancer and became a complex

American Ballet Theatre

Silver Lining

"The Gift", "Songs of Bukovina", "Thirteen Diversions"
American Ballet Theatre
David H. Koch Theatre
New York, New York
October 18, 2017

ABT's Fall gala celebrated Kevin McKenzie's twenty-five years as Artistic Director with a silver jubilee. Appropriately, it was a company effort, celebrating the JKO students and the ABT Studio Company as well as the current dancers; as the gracious hosts, Stella Abrera and David Hallberg noted in their opening remarks, 63 of ABT'

New Works, New Theaters

"Site Series (Inside Outside)"
"Skies Calling Skies Falling"
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
The Diane B. Wilsey Center
War Memorial Building
San Francisco, CA
October 12, 2017

Margaret Jenkins opened her 43^rd season with dancers that were not even born when she started her company in San Francisco, after having been an original member of the Twyla Tharp Company for two years and then decided she wanted to make her own work in her hometown San Francisco. What exactly prompted

Mariinsky Ballet

Milking a Classic

“La Bayadere”
The Mariinsky Ballet
Opera House
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
October 17, 2017

The plot for this exotic and bravura ballet keeps being altered. Right now at the Kennedy Center the story stops short with the hero immersed in a dream of his dead beloved among a bevy of similar bayaderes beckoning him to join her. Bayaderes were dancing girls who served in Hindu temples. The hero, an outstanding Hindu warrior, has

New York City Ballet

Moving On

"Cortège Hongrois", "La Valse", "Square Dance", "Duo Concertant"
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
October 15, 2015

Robert Fairchild gave his farewell performance at New York City Ballet in Balanchine's low-key, pensive, and very personal "Duo Concertant", which was rescheduled to close the afternoon, in place of the apotheosis of closers, "Cortège Hongrois", which opened the performance. If the switch made for a somewhat unbalanced schedule, it let the audience thank Fairchild

It’s a Wrap

“Solo Echo,” “Concerto Grosso,” “Twelve of ‘em,” “Matria Etnocentra,”
Fall for Dance Program 5
Joyce Theater
New York, NY
June 21, 201

After a rich lineup for the 2017 Fall for Dance season, the fifth and final program was a fine coda, with a mix of top choreography, excellent regional companies, a New York star, and an international troupe that wrapped up the program and this FFD season with a rousing, rhythmic

Noh Now

"Left-Right-Left"
Luca Veggetti, Director/Choreographer
Japan Society, New York
October 13, 2017

"Left-Right-Left" describes the basic act of walking, or dancing. It also might describe a historical or dramatic dialectic: a movement from hope to despair, to new hope. Taken together, this is the material for an experimental drama combining western contemporary dance with the 600-year-old Japanese Noh Theater. It's a tall order, a joint project of Japan Society in New York and

Balanchine Finally

"Square Dance," "La Valse," Cortège Hongrois"
New York City Ballet
David Koch Theater
New York, New York
October 5, 2017

After two weeks of Peter Martins' "Swan Lake", a gala showcase for another clutch of novelties in thrall to Fashion Week and a program of Wheeldon, Ratmansky and Justin Peck, the three choreographers who have revivified the New York City Ballet in this century, the company finally returned to its foundations with this mixed bill, back to bedrock, back to

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