Obra: Necessity, Again

Rachel Rizzuto reviews Cedar Lake's final performances as a company at BAM in New York City.

Rachel Rizzuto reviews Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet's Program C at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House.

The New York-based Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet is named after a street in Missouri, home of the studio where one of the company’s founders studied ballet many years ago. Both locales – in Missouri and in New York City – are a far distance from any lake, but somehow the name is appropriate: evoking visions of the still and pristine natural world of a wilderness lake.