Review: At New York Theater Ballet, Safe Bets Become Bold
The troupe presented a beautiful world premiere by Richard Alston and three revivals of fascinating rarities by Jerome Robbins.
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CreditAndrea Mohin/The New York Times Review: Mark Morris’s Egalitarian Ethos and Top-Class Art
The deceptively modest programs at his Brooklyn dance center include a nearly new knockout, a major revival and career-spanning variety.
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CreditMartha Swope, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100
Our chief dance critic on this great theater maker and his particularly American style of ballet, which weeded out artifice and embraced naturalism.
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CreditErik Tomasson Critic’s Notebook
San Francisco Ballet’s Limpid Sophistication Shines in ‘Unbound’
Eight of the festival’s 12 premieres were theatrically individual, with all four programs substantial.
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Credit Lar Lubovitch Is Looking for Poets
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Credit Empowerment, Martha Graham-Style
A section of “Chronicle” (1936), Graham’s scorching, all-female response to fascism.
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Credit Haunted by the Familiar
The choreographer and dancer Jack Ferver made this duet, part of his new show “Everything Is Imaginable,” for himself and his old friend Reid Bartelme.
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Credit Tape Heads and Bodies
In “What will we be like when we get there,” Joanna Kotze and Netta Yerushalmy share the stage with a composer, who creates the score live, and an artist, who uses tape to paint the floor.
