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| Fall For Dance - New York City |
| SFB took a break from the tour to participate in "Fall for Dance", September 25th and 27th |
| I saw the final program of Fall for Dance on Saturday. It felt like a bit of a loaded final program what with the Twyla Tharp choreography, the San Francisco Ballet dancing Robbins, and the Paul Taylor Dance Company dancing Esplanade.
... ...the San Francisco Ballet, performing In the Night by Jerome Robbins. They provided the best showing for ballet in Fall for Dance. For starters, the men weren't stuck in costumes that were either pink and blousey or attacked with a bedazzler. More importantly though, the dancers weren't dull (ABT), seemingly uncertain (Suzanne Farrell Ballet), or apparent victims of facial paralysis (Houston Ballet). And while the Christopher Wheeldon pas de deux that Oregon Ballet Theater performed was perfectly pleasant--and their dancers were lovely--In the Night was rather more interesting, what with the distict characters Robbins created through movement. Wheeldon's dancers seemed much more generic, through no fault of their own./ VOD |
| ...But live art has a way of playing tricks, and Friday�s came during �In the Night,� Robbins�s 1970 study of three couples, when the lively audience dissolved into giggles, drastically changing the work�s tenor. Set to Chopin nocturnes (played onstage by Roy Bogas), the piece can be variously read, depending on whether you see the pairs as distinct entities or the same people at different points in their emotional lives. In the first duet, Ruben Martin and the beautiful but stiff Yuan Yuan Tan offered a portrait of youthful romance. The middle duet presented a more seasoned relationship. The action was dominated by the ravishing French ballerina Sofiane Sylve, who left New York City Ballet last winter; Tiit Helimets was no match for her barely banked fires. But the meltdown came with couple No. 3, Lorena Feijoo and Pierre-Fran�ois Vilanoba, who both danced with wonderful abandon. Robbins�s choreography dives into the agonies and ecstasies of passion, and he doesn�t shy away from melodrama. Stray chuckles can sometimes be heard at the State Theater when City Ballet performs this piece, but the City Center audience convulsed into gales of laughter, propelling the work into delicious soap-opera territory. The performers, smartly, went along with the fun./ NY Times |
| Now back to "The Tour" |