Armitage Gone! Dance at New York Live Arts an uncomfortable display of feral sexuality

A mix of new and tried and tested works by Karole Armitage, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Carolyn Dorfman and Jennifer Muller

In the first concert of their exciting series Stravinsky: Myth and Ritual celebrating the varied musical inspirations of this most iconic figure of 20th-century composers, the focus was on Rituals. 

A superb revival of Karole Armitage's staging of Gluck's masterpiece at Teatro di San Carlo.

Doug Fitch masterminds a splendidly inventive multimedia rendering of Petrushka, ably supported by Alan Gilbert and the NY Phil.

Unusual scenes at the New York Philharmonic this past weekend: a ballerina flouncing across the stage; conductor Alan Gilbert lugging a life-size puppet down the aisle amid rows of laughing, bewildered audience members; black-and-white video projections of the orchestra musicians sipping tea.

Atop a square, springy mattress of a platform, ten artists morph a sculpture of breath and flesh into a high-octane bacchanal.