New York City Center’s Fall for Dance 2020

By Ivy Lin, 29 October 2020

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“very clever and compulsively watchable”

Reviewed at New York City Center, New York City on 29 October 2020

18+1 (Excerpts) (Gustavo Ramírez Sansano)

Morani/Mungu (Black Warrior/Black God) (Jamar Roberts)

Lamentation (Martha Graham)

The Two of Us (Christopher Wheeldon)

Who Cares? (George Balanchine)

to be seen (Kyle Abraham)

Concerto Six Twenty-Two (Lar Lubovitch)

Lady Swings the Blues (Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards)

Ballet Hispanico

Shelby Colona, Dancer

Dandara Veiga, Dancer

Lenai Wilkerson, Dancer

Jamar Roberts, Dancer

Natasha M Diamond-Walker, Dancer

Sara Mearns, Dancer

David Hallberg, Dancer

Ashley Bouder, Dancer

Tiler Peck, Dancer

Brittany Pollack, Dancer

Calvin Royal III, Dancer

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

Adrian Danchig-Waring, Dancer

Joseph Gordon, Dancer

Dormeshia, Dancer

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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Ivy Lin

Ivy Lin's love of ballet began in high school when at the school dance she quickly realized she had two left feet. One always admires things one cannot do, and so Ivy began to attend dance performances to marvel at the grace and beauty of bodies in motion. Ivy's day job is a biology teacher and after a long day in the classroom she loves to unwind by watching dance. She also enjoys theater, opera, pop and classical music. Ivy has her own blog (www.humbledandoverwhelmed,blogspot.com)

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