One of the sweet paradoxes about Janie Taylor is that her dancing is both old and new. She has the whiff of mystery of a truly romantic ballerina as well as the physical fearlessness of a totally contemporary dancer. No wonder she has been a muse to Peter Martins for many of his ballets! But […]
In a bright, spacious studio, Janie Taylor, delicate in pink, works on some challenging lifts from Peter Martins’ jazzy Hallelujah Junction. Her partner (on and off the stage), Sébastien Marcovici, tosses her over his shoulder. As she wraps around him like a fine cashmere shawl, he lets her down easily. She whirls away from him, […]
Gorgeously dark and ominous, Quasi Una Fantasia moves along like some viscous liquid. It’s both a relief and a triumph to see a piece by New York City Ballet that is not sunny or courteous or ingratiating in any way. The mood is as consistent as a dream. The partnering is complex but not […]
New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater April 28–June 21, 2009 Reviewed by Rose Anne Thom Robbins’ The Concert with Sterling Hyltin, aloft. Photo by Paul Kolnik, Courtesy NYCB. Where else but New York does a ballet company give seven performances straight for eight weeks at a time? And what an opportunity […]
Some nights the numbers comes out like stars—especially if you’re sitting in the mezzanine and can see patterns. I’ve seen Balanchine’s Stravinsky Violin Concerto before, but I never grasped the math like I did last night while sitting in the first ring. Each of the four soloists enters with an entourage of four dancers. You […]
These picks are highly subjective and totally dependent on where I have travelled. TEN BEST IN CHOREOGRAPHY Most haunting, beautiful, and beguiling: Christopher Wheeldon’s In the Golden Hour, part of San Francisco Ballet’s New Works Festival Best new vision of global interchange: Bahok by Akram Khan with members of his company as […]
New York City Ballet’s first ever Dancers’ Choice program was a smash hit. The dancers proved that they could run the show, and they pulled in money to fill the coffers of the Dancers’ Emergency Fund. They produced an uplifting evening full of classical dancing, a range of moods, humor, and surprises. Peter Martins, in […]
Sometimes I get to see so many gorgeous things that I feel like my cup runneth over. Or maybe my eyes runneth over. Anyway, here are some of the recent reasons I feel so fortunate. • Damian Woetzel and Janie Taylor of NYCB in Robbins Afternoon of a Faun: This was a dream world from […]
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