The versatility and adventurousness of BalletX’s dancers and its leading lady, artistic and executive director, Christine Cox, are matchless. Cox...
For the second work of its 2017 fall season, BalletX returned to the newly spruced up Wilma Theater with a reprise of a 2013 commission to internationally in demand choreographer, Nicolo Fonte’s “Beautiful Decay.” Two sets of well-known Philadelphia-based guest dancers alternate during the run. On seeing it the first time with Manfred Fischbeck and Brigitta Herrmann, years ago, and this time with Hellmut Fricke-Gottschild and Brenda Dixon Gottschild in the alternate cast, I find the title even more wincingly uncomfortable.
Seeing dance in New York City is always an exciting grab-bag of movement invention and ideas. But, the companies and...
