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....Continuing... Tiler Peck was truly amazing. I don't think I've ever seen a dancer totally embody the music the way she did yesterday in Allegro Brilliante. Just pure joy in expression. I was sitting very close, and at one point Andrew Veyette gave Tiler a little smile seeming to acknowledge just how on fire she was. What an unforgettable performance. I love 4Ts and was excited to see Sara Mearns. Sara just ate up space. She wasn't perfect but that didn't seem to be the goal -- she just threw herself into the steps with abandon. Amazing to watch. I was surprised at how moved I was by Maria Kowroski's performance in Symphony in C. Tyler Angle is such a sensitive partner and he and Maria created what was, for me, a very vulnerable, dramatic, and moving performance. Her energy did seem to lag near the end of the ballet but she kept fighting on and in her struggle created something beautiful, in my opinion. I know the ballet is so often about striving for perfection and effortlessness, and we saw that yesterday in Tiler Peck's performance, but art is also about expressing a kind of universal humanity and I found that in Maria's performance. All in all, an extraordinary afternoon at the ballet!

I, too, was at Sunday's matinee.

I saw Saturday night's performance. Vanessa Zahorian and Davit Karapetyan were fantastic together. I have never seen Vanessa dance with so much emotion and she and Davit were completely up to the task of the very difficult partnering in the dream sequence and especially the final scene of the ballet. They were able to dance with a level of abandon that made the final pas de deux absolutely thrilling. The audience went wild for them at the end. Sasha De Sola and Myles Thatcher were also wonderful -- both really terrific actors and extremely expressive. A great night at the ballet.