Thursday, February 19, 2009

Ballet: 21st Century Movements @ Lincoln Center

You can have Wheeldon's Mercurial Manoevers performed to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. (ugh!) and Melissa Barak's Simply Symphony. But Jorma Elo's fantastic Slice to Sharp, set to Vivaldi, is a tour de force of exhilarating energy and free-flowing movement. There is no story line so much as immense vivacity performed with a simple sharp diagonal shadow stretching across the stage. Well done!

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