Angel Corella’s Pennsylvania Ballet at the Joyce

By Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 31 March 2016

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“Lillian DiPiazza and Arian Molina Soca... just go together like peanut butter and jelly”

Reviewed at Joyce Theater, New York City on 29 March 2016

Keep (Matthew Neenan)

The Accidental (Trey McIntyre)

Grace Action (Nicolo Fonte)

Philadelphia Ballet

Amy Aldridge, Dancer

Francis Veyette, Dancer

Lauren Fadely, Dancer

Ian Hussey, Dancer

Lillian DiPiazza, Dancer

Arian Molina Soca, Dancer

Jermel Johnson, Dancer

Evelyn Kocak, Dancer

Alexandra Hughes, Dancer

Andrew Daly, Dancer

Craig Wasserman, Dancer

Oksana Maslova, Dancer

James Ihde, Dancer

Mayara Piñeiro, Dancer

Etienne Díaz, Dancer

Holly Lynn Fusco, Dancer

Philosophy amid movement in San Francisco Ballet’s Dance Innovations

Terez Rose, 13th February

The ballet culminates with fouettés, bravura leaps from the oversized ensemble and a rousing finish with all 44 dancers onstage. It was an exuberant end to an intelligent, satisfying production, both of thought and movement.

****1

Pure dance with joyful power

Graham Watts, 7th June

An exciting London season closes with a glimpse of where ballet is headed, San Francisco style.

*****

The solace of love in San Francisco Ballet’s Program 5: Lyric Voices

Jaime Robles, 27th March

There is a kind of purity to Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem, and a very human sense of longing and loss.

****1

Unbound Festival continues with superb dancing

Jaime Robles, 24th April

Benjamin Freemantle danced the opening solo, gorgeously, in the role of the grandfather as a dreamy young Adonis.

****1

Harlem, Funk and a bit of Schubert

Hilary Stroh, 7th March

It’s not about being on the biggest stage that matters, but what you do on any stage at all – dance like there is no-one watching. But, happily in this case, we are.

****1

Bowie and Queen at the ballet

Hilary Stroh, 5th May

Dazzling pop-ballet 'Bowie and Queen' marks Company Director's grand finale

*****

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Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn

Andrew is currently a professional chef in New York City but he began life as a ballet dancer with the Hartford and Ohio Ballet companies. His writing also appears on the Huffington Post Blog and BroadwayWorld.com. His latest work, nominated for a James Beard Award, is “Return to the Rivers”, a Himalayan cookbook.