Ballet Preljocaj preserves Gravity amid setback on US tour

Ballet Preljocaj in Gravity

Florine Pegat-Toquet, Leonardo Santini and Verity Jacobsen in Gravity

Ballet Preljocaj in Gravity

By Carla Escoda, 23 October 2025

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“galvanized by spiraling torsos, surging limbs, heads bowed and pressed into the next person’s back”

Reviewed at Joyce Theater, New York City on 21 October 2025

Gravity (Angelin Preljocaj)

Ballet Preljocaj

Igor Chapurin, Costume Designer

Éric Soyer, Lighting Designer

Fast Forward: Hamburg Ballet’s mixed bill proves a mixed success

Vikki Jane Vile, 22nd February

All that glistens... the world premiere of Xie Xin’s The Moon in the Ocean is the highlight of a mixed bill programme spanning 90 years of choreography.

***11

The inspired and the prosaic at Fall for Dance at New York City Center

Carla Escoda, 20th September

A perfect triple bill became a less perfect quadruple bill. Brilliant performances by dancers from Gibney, kNoname Artist, Paris Opera étoiles rarely seen in New York and – a rarity these days – live musicians.

****1

Lithuanian National Ballet: tremendous in Preljocaj's Le Parc

Jonathan Gray, 15th June

Le Parc but is masterful in evoking the sensuous world of the 18th century and it's a major achievement for the Lithuanian National Ballet.

****1

Firecrackers at the 15th Ballet Icons Gala

Margaret Willis, 26th January

An evening of sparkle and bravura at London's international ballet gala.

***11

La Fresque: a modern twist on an ancient fairy tale

Graham Watts, 1st October

In La Fresque, Preljocaj’s modern twist arises from creating this work in 2016, at a time when the Pokémon Go craze was at its height.

***11

Crystal-like dismay in Preljocaj's Winterreise for La Scala

Alessandra Tribotti, 24th January

The long-awaited first creation of the Franco-Albanian choreographer for La Scala Ballet Company inexplicably fails to resonate emotionally with Schubert's masterpiece.

**111

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Carla Escoda

Born in the Philippines, Carla trained as a ballet and modern dancer with the Alice Reyes Dance Company in Manila. She has lived and worked in Asia and the U.S. and has written about the arts for Bachtrack, KQED (the northern California public media broadcaster), Dance International, dance journal/hk, the Huffington Post, Dance Europe and ballettothepeople.