Modern Dance Hold’em
Lassoing is a surprising through-line for a Martha Graham Dance Company performance. The theme steps generally tend towards the child-birthing variety: contractions and deep squats.
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On the evening of March 7th, New York City Ballet opened a run of shows at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. This performance, which marked the company’s first appearance in London since 2008, was met with equal parts excitement and nervous anticipation. The troupe has undergone a number of seismic shifts in the last 16 years: in 2017, the longtime artistic director, Peter Martins, resigned in the face of abuse claims; in 2018, a nude photo-sharing scandal erupted, resulting in the firing of three male principal dancers; and in 2020, over a year’s worth of performances were canceled due to the Covid pandemic. Fortunately, none of these upheavals have managed to detract from the particular pleasure that arises from watching NYCB in action. For New Yorkers like myself in the audience, that pleasure was only doubled.
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Lassoing is a surprising through-line for a Martha Graham Dance Company performance. The theme steps generally tend towards the child-birthing variety: contractions and deep squats.
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