World-class review of ballet and dance.
For the third year in a row, five of New York City's most iconic dance companies—Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem—joined forces for for the BAAND Together Dance Festival, hosted by Lincoln Center. Photographed by Steven Pisano.
For a Jewish man, Jerome Robbins sure had a clear idea of heaven—in the ballet realm, anyway. In two elegiac dances made less than a year apart, “In Memory Of…” and “Quiet City,” he had dancers in white doing low arabesque flies in a shaft of light emanating from the back left corner of the stage.
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To travel around, like the Earth in its recurrent, elliptical revolution around the sun, is no mean feat. Touring is a complicated, lengthy and costly affair.
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“Specky Clark” opens with a bang, then a whimper. The bang is the titular Specky’s mother, dropping dead onto the kitchen floor.
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The sought-after choreographer Aszure Barton and award-winning composer Ambrose Akinmusire bend their individual arcs toward one another in their collaborative, multi-disciplinary work titled “A a | a B : Bend,” presented as part of Lincoln Center’s Pasculano Collaborative for Contemporary Dance.
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I missed it this year. I was supposed to go on one of the days that the performance was canceled due to the extreme heat. I was so disappointed.