Thursday, August 8

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A review of Smuin Contemporary Ballet by Leigh Witchel for dancelog.nyc.

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Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Tupelo Tornado, about Elvis Presley, was made this year. She didn’t make an Elvis’ Greatest Hits jukebox ballet, and we don’t need one. Almost every great pop musician from Joni Mitchell through the Rolling Stones has had to suffer that indignity, and jukebox works get no closer to penetrating an artist’s mystique. Rather, Tupelo Tornado put Presley under a microscope.