The power of illusion: a stunning new Sleeping Beauty in Basel

Two new works continue PNB's adventurous antidote to the loss of live performance. 

This season's Director's Choice presents three works by choreographers Justin Peck, Alejandro Cerrudo and Paul Gibson, who, according to PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal, are among the "truly gifted" of our time.  

Pacific Northwest Ballet presented an interesting and mostly very good repertory program at the Joyce with standout performances by James Moore and Carla Korbes. These are some of the finest dancers around, espectially the women.

Carla Escoda reviews Pacific Northwest Ballet's mixed bill featuring the world première of Memory Glow by Alejandro Cerrudo, and revivals of Molissa Fenley's iconoclastic solo to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, State of Darkness, Susan Marshall's aerial ballet Kiss, and Susan Stroman's TAKE FIVE...More or Less, set to Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond.

Dirigée depuis 2011 par le danseur et chorégraphe José Martinez, la Compagnie Nationale de Danse d’Espagne se produit cet hiver au Théâtre des Champs Elysées. Un triptyque d’œuvres haut en intensité qui nous donne l’occasion de découvrir un répertoire créatif et des interprètes d’une grande maîtrise.

Roman Mejia and a raft of soloist debuts galvanized Peter Martins' Sleeping Beauty. An elegant production with some incidental messiness and the structural liability of a princess' dependence on a kiss.