Saturday, October 30

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A review of American Ballet Theatre  by Marina Harss for DanceTabs.

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Take the “Fall Gala” and the LGBTQIA+ “Pride Night” program that took place on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Along with a skillful and pretty new ballet by Lauren Lovette (La Follia Variations) and a choreographically-ingenious new work by Ratmansky (Bernstein in a Bubble) there were not one but two jazzy Americana ballets, both hyper cheerful and heavy on the cuteness: Jessica Lang’s ZigZag and Darrell Grand Moultrie’s Indestructible Light. Then, an overly on-the-nose pas de deux exploring male love, set to sentimental music by Woodkid and Ennio Morricone (Christopher Rudd’s Touché). And finally a dated, clichéd guy-and-gal-love-each-other-but-torture-each-other duet by Clark Tippet, Some Assembly Required (1989). Neither program is up to the standard of the company at its best or of its excellent dancers, who are looking better than anyone has any right to expect after spending so many months away from the studio.