Work: Partita

Contemporary ballet often shies away from unabashed romance. Kyle Abraham instead leans into the love story. 

Partita has emerged as one of the stronger Peck ballets. If we see more Partita and less Principia, that’s a good thing.

The NYCB dancers are very at-home in this idiom, and they threw themselves wholeheartedly into this ballet. It was never less than watchable, but the music cried out for more avante-garde choreography than Peck provided.