No Gray Areas
Programming, like staging and choreography, is an art, and Ángel Corella surpassed himself with all three in this early spring show featuring all new works.
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Eyeballs, screaming crones, and bloody axes were projected on a scrim at the top of American Ballet Theater’s new production of “Crime and Punishment.” Not bad for Halloween programming! Yet, despite Isobel Waller-Bridge’s cinematic, pressure-cooker score—which frequently evoked escape room music—there was very little suspense in Helen Pickett and James Bonas’s new narrative full-length. (Pickett is credited with choreography, co-direction, and treatment, while Bonas is credited with direction and treatment.) Between the program notes that thoroughly described all 22 scenes, and the onstage supertitles that presaged and sometimes interpreted them, there was not much room for surprise. That the murders occurred only in flashback, and at an arty distance, didn’t help.
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