New York City Ballet – The Times are Racing, The Shimmering Asphalt, Fearful Symmetries – New York
★★★✰✰ More than anything, Peck’s “The Times are Racing” reminded me of the movie Rebel Without a Cause. These kids are uneasy, but what is the object of their unease?
Susan Marshall & Company – Play/Pause – New York
The gulf between commercial dance – the kind one sees in TV ads, music videos, and on shows like So You Think You Can Dance – and theatrical dance is disconcerting….
L.A. Dance Project – Reflections, Murder Ballads, Quintett – London
So Reflections could have a lot resting on it, if the eventual tryptich is to be a 21st century equivalent of Balanchine’s Jewels…
L.A. Dance Project – Moving Parts, Winterbranch, Quintett – New York
It’s always been clear that Millepied is a man of intelligence and taste.
