NYCB On and Offstage
New York City Ballet concluded its 75th anniversary year with its traditional summer residency upstate at the amphitheater of Saratoga Springs’s Performing Arts Center (SPAC).
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Six dancers enter from stage left and position themselves along the rear wall, their backs to the audience. Today, the light through a row of windows casts them in silhouette. They look like filigreed latticework as they stand, some in first position, some with one foot arched, heel resting against the opposing ankle. After a beat, they casually step into a wider stance: easy knees, softness in the torso, maybe an arm to the hip. Stationary for a moment, then they disperse. Today is the first time they have access to the theater—the James and Martha Duffy Performance Space at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn. The premiere of “Smile, though your heart is aching,” choreographed and directed by Megan Williams, is a mere three weeks out.
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