Saturday, December 23

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A year-in-review piece by Marcia Luttrell in The San Diego Union-Tribune.

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"Turn it Out with Tiler Peck and Friends"

Presented by La Jolla Music Society, this was the dance show of the year, with the precision of ballet technique coexisting with tap, hip-hop and jazz movement styles. Curated by New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck, the program included works by Peck and legendary choreographers William Forsythe and Alonzo King.

 

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A review of Lauren Lovette's new work for the Paul Taylor Dance Company by Leigh Witchel for dancelog.nyc.

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Lovette has come a long way since her initial efforts, not just in making dances but in what a dance can be made out of. It felt as if she had learned a lot from Taylor’s cryptic dances such as “Scudorama” or “Last Look” about picking ideas that were provocative, but still could be expressed in dance. Her concepts were still big, but both more workable and more sophisticated, an issue that haunted her early work.

 

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A review of Scottish Ballet by Mark Brown for The National.

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CHRISTOPHER Hampson’s beautiful and imaginative choreography for Prokofiev’s Cinderella is an established part of Scottish Ballet’s repertoire. For this festive period, under the new, exclamatory title of Cinders!, it returns with a few notable alterations.