“It always wants something more of me,” Belinda McGuire said to me with a grin a few days before the opening of her solo performance, “Waltz Slaughterhouse Requiem.” Something true of dance, I thought, and perhaps especially true for solo work. McGuire's performance of her own choreography, a personal reflection, “Slaughterhouse/Requiem” was highly original and impressive, and is one of my highlights of the year in dance.
Guillaume Côté’s new ballet, “Being and Nothingness” made its premiere alongside two-thirds of Alexei Ratmansky’s “Shostakovich Trilogy.” Two quite different...
Dylan Tedaldi, first soloist, is cast as the Little Prince from outer space, and has been busy in rehearsal with choreographer Guillaume Côté.