New York City Ballet: All-Balanchine
After 58 years out of the repertory, Balanchine’s Pithoprakta, pieced together from incomplete film recordings and Suzanne Farrell’s memory, gives a lot to talk about
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New York City Ballet: Modern Masters
George Balanchine’s La Source (with Tiler Peck and Roman Mejia) and The Four Temperaments, and Jerome Robbins’ The Concert
Past and present, dreams and reality, life and art. Christopher Wheeldon’s Oscar
Not a linear narrative, Oscar looks back at key moments in Wilde’s life and relationships, revisiting the glittering world he once inhabited, and then at the effects of his time in Reading Gaol.
Waves of Korean Contemporary Dance
Andamiro Art Company and choreographer Lee Dongha from Korea, and White Wave Dance, Brooklyn-based but led by Korean artistic director Young Soon Kim
Simon Le Borgne & Ulysse Zangs: Ad Libitum
Ad Libitum is about the desire to create, to step outside oneself, to expand. And that’s precisely what it delivers. The effort and intensity throughout from both really was something special.
New York City Ballet: Eclectic NYCB
Three ballets, very different in style and mood: Christopher Wheeldon’s Continuum, Alexei Ratmansky’s Solitude, George Balanchine’s Bourrée Fantasque
Something old, something new. Limón Dance Company in Mazurkas and Join
As in Mazurkas, everyone performed with superb assurance. There was power, there was grace, there was beauty. Join draws you in and never lets go.
New York City Ballet: Contemporary Choreographers
The new works that premiered at this year’s Fall Fashion Gala, including Jennifer Archibald’s terrific Shared Rain, alongside two from previous years
Fall for Dance Program 5: Pony Cam, Miami City Ballet, Australian Ballet
Some gentle ribbing of the art form from Pony Cam, a Ratmansky from Miami City Ballet, and Australian Ballet in Stephanie Lake’s Seven Days
An English evening in New York City with Sarasota Ballet
Antony Tudor’s Lilac Gardan, five Frederick Ashton divertissements and, most interesting and anticipated of all, Peter Wright’s one-act ballet, Summertide
Dinner Party: pulling back the curtain on relationships
An exploration of the relationships between five couples… visited in turn, each conversation heard in recorded text, seen in dance.