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ABT 85 - Twyla Tharp's Bach Partita
Robert La Fosse, Magali Messac, Cynthia Gregory, Fernando Bujones, Martine van Hamel, and Clark Tippet. Photo by Martha Swope, 1983. "Twyla Tharp's Bach Partita is a pure-dance, plotless work. Focused on formal concerns that deal with structure in music and dance, it also explores a host of movement possibilities. [...] This is the conceptual Tharp at her most sophisticated and at her most elegant. Those who climbed aboard the Tharp bandwagon when she went into an overtly po

Lauryn Johnson
Oct 15


ABT 85 - Twyla Tharp's Sextet
Sextet is a virtuosic pure-dance work for three couples. The choreography is fast, flamboyant and technically rigorous. The couples...

Lauryn Johnson
Oct 13


NYCB Vol. 15 No. 10 - Vienna Waltzes
"George Balanchine’s Vienna Waltzes was given for the first time this season, in one of its very best performances, Tuesday night by the...

Lauryn Johnson
May 10


NYCB Vol. 15 No. 3 - Glass Pieces
Bart Cook and Maria Calegari. Photo by Martha Swope, 1983 "Bart Cook and Maria Calegari were stunning as always as he central couple,...

Lauryn Johnson
Apr 24


NYCB Vol. 14 No. 7 - Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet
Patricia McBride and Sean Lavery. Photo by Steve Caras “Sean Lavery’s partnering of a buoyant Patricia McBride in the Intermezzo [of...

Lauryn Johnson
Feb 1


NYCB Vol. 12 No. 2 - Baiser de la Fée
Balanchine’s Divertimento from “Le Baiser de la Fée” Nancy Reynolds: “Balanchine’s gift for choreographing to the strength of his dancers...

Lauryn Johnson
Sep 18, 2024
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