Painterly Expression
The Sarasota Ballet’s return to Jacob’s Pillow for five days of a triple bill that included two little-seen works by Sir Frederick Ashton and a world premiere by Jessica Lang, was charged with anticipation and curiosity.
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Choreography, for many, is a mystical art, and one that needs bodies on which to create movement. So, when the pandemic forced a lockdown in 2020, Alonzo King, artistic director and co-founder of the San Francisco-based Alonzo King Lines Ballet, did what he does best, albeit under far different circumstances: He worked inside the troupe’s studios, but in confined bubbles; he sculpted his dancers’ bodies outside at Golden Gate Park; and, among other places, he fashioned forms on a farm in Arizona, all in order to build work for the company’s 40th anniversary.
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The Sarasota Ballet’s return to Jacob’s Pillow for five days of a triple bill that included two little-seen works by Sir Frederick Ashton and a world premiere by Jessica Lang, was charged with anticipation and curiosity.
PlusLos Angeles–based dance artist Jay Carlon knew that the proscenium stage couldn’t house his 2024 work, “Wake,” in its fullness. So he moved it elsewhere: to a rave.
PlusChoreography wasn’t on Lia Cirio’s radar when artistic director Mikko Nissinen asked her to participate in Boston Ballet’s ChoreograpHER initiative in 2018.
PlusIngrid Silva’s expression is calm, the side of her mouth upturned a few degrees, as if she’s delighting in the reception of her own joke.
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