Sunday, November 21

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A review of Pacific Northwest Ballet by Claudia Bauer for DanceTabs.

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Lang’s choreography seamlessly blends the scale and openness of neoclassical technique, the supple torsos and port de bras of Romanticism, and the angular floor work of contemporary dance. Like an Abstract Expressionist response to Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering, eight black-clad dancers come and go in vignettes of shifting relationships to each other, to the self, and to the music. Jillian Lewis’s cutout designs for the women’s leotards and men’s jackets imply fractured souls; the women’s long tutus float over their fully extended arabesques, then crumple as the dancers contract and curl down to the floor. The furling and unfolding of Wald and Elle Macy’s final duet evoked a waltz between sparrows.