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NYC Ballet Digital Fall Season


I think you can still catch the NYC ballet Digital Fall Season with its five premieres today. Produced under the constraints of losing their entire year, it showcases choreographers who have plans to work with the company on longer works. But most important: it shows these ballet dancers can do just about anything.

Here they are using the Lincoln Centercampus, which beats the festival they once had about Architecture of Dance (see my piece for Huffpost) There's nothing like seeing Lincoln Center, like a Giorgio de Chirico painting, empty, surrounded by orange and white bollards, as a backdrop for contemporary movement.

I especially liked Sidra Bell’s piece for taking advantage of that energy bouncing off the buildings, Andrea Miller’s romantic piece to the music of Victor Jara, where the four dancers danced in water, and Justin Peck's which broke out of the campus and found other NY City spots that make our hearts zing. Sara Mearns in an after dark Chinatown was especially haunting.