Writing the Book on Buddy Bradley
Near the end of her illuminating book on choreographer Buddy Bradley, Maureen Footer discusses Bradley’s work on Cecil Landau’s revue “Sauce Tartare.”
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English National Ballet’s latest mixed bill presents a trio of works from William Forsythe, a dancemaker known for slanting ballet into new gradients, some playful, some confrontational, all of them spirited and agile. Two of the works here are new acquisitions for ENB, including a 1992 quintet on its first outing in the UK in three decades, while the third revives a much-loved ensemble piece created on the company in 2018. Between them they capture Forsythe’s evolving dynamism, the way he continues to reshape his own style and his choreographies along with it.
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