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Friday, April 9


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A review of "When We Fell" by Ivy Lin for Bachtrack.

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It therefore wasn’t surprising that Abraham was tapped to create a new work for NYCB’s 2021 Digital Season. When We Fell was created through a three week “bubble residency”. Eight NYCB dancers quarantined themselves with Abraham upstate at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park to rehearse and then the final product was filmed at the now-empty Koch Theater. So, did lightning strike twice? Is When We Fell going to be the pandemic choreography keeper that will be performed regularly once all this is over? Not exactly.

Marina Harss' review for DanceTabs.

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The ballet is like the film negative of Abraham’s previous work for the company, The Runaway, which teemed with life. The Runaway was bold, provocative, delightfully in your face. Now, all the color has been sucked away, and what is left are these ghostly bodies, clad in monotone unitards, exhibiting the bare bones of their technique. It is as if Abraham had decided to place their unique way of moving, that fine-hewn Balanchine style, under a microscope............The dancers embody the same qualities seen in the architectural structures that surround them: clarity, geometry, tensile grace. Abraham has chosen not to put down a dance floor on the promenade – or to use a dance floor that exactly replicates the actual floor – so that the patterns of the granite are clear when filmed from above.

 

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