Mother Nature returns the love to BalletX’s Four Seasons Reimagined

BalletX in Morgann Runacre-Temple’s Summer from The Four Seasons Reimagined

Ashley Simpson and Jared Kelly in Penny Saunders’ Autumn from The Four Seasons Reimagined

BalletX in Jamar Roberts’ Winter from The Four Seasons Reimagined

BalletX in Trey McIntyre’ Spring from The Four Seasons Reimagined

Eli Alford and João Pedro Silva in Trey McIntyre’s Spring from The Four Seasons Reimagined

By Leigh Donlan, 06 June 2026

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“performance depicted that we are not separate from the natural world, but an intrinsic part of it”

Reviewed at Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia on 4 June 2026

The Four Seasons Reimagined (Morgann Runacre-Temple, Penny Saunders, Jamar Roberts, Trey McIntyre)

BalletX

Emma Kingsbury, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Christopher Ash, Lighting Designer

Johnny Loves Johann, unevenly at the Joyce Theater

Carla Escoda, 14th April

Acclaimed violinist and 2024 MacArthur Fellow Johnny Gandelsman invited four choreographers to join him on a marathon through Bach's six cello suites. His musicianship was the highlight of the evening.

***11

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Atlanta: simply spellbinding

Rebecca Ehrhardt, 15th February

At the start of an ambitious cross-country tour, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is transcendent at Atlanta's historic Fox Theatre.

*****

Foreseeable Future is aimless movement to aimless music at NYCB

Ivy Lin, 9th October

Some excellent individual performances but a disappointing program for Contemporary Choreography I with New York City Ballet.

**111

NYCB's Sara Mearns charts her next act?

Ivy Lin, 4th April

New York City Ballet's Sara Mearns proves that she is a natural contemporary dancer in a self-curated double bill.

****1

Martha Graham does Americana

Ivy Lin, 3rd April

Janet Eilber has done an amazing job of steering the Martha Graham Dance Company into the modern age with multiple mixed programs.

****1

BalletX: Jamar Roberts and Jennifer Archibald top an uneven mixed bill

Carla Escoda, 27th September

BalletX, a contemporary ballet company that prides itself on its diversity and its commitment to commissioning new work, brings an ambitious and mostly successful mixed bill to the Joyce Theater.

****1

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Leigh Donlan

Former ballerina Leigh Donlan trained in Russian technique and a variety of folk and modern dance techniques, was Children’s Ballet Mistress at the Washington School of Ballet in Washington, D.C., Director of the Athenaeum School of Ballet in Alexandria, Virginia, and studied English at the University of Oregon and Public Relations at Georgetown University. She has been writing for Ballet to the People since 2014, and is currently on the faculty at Princeton Ballet School.