by Gigi | Jul 29, 2023 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
The Company in Justin Peck’s Copland Dance Episodes. Photo credit: Erin Baiano Saturday, July 22nd at 7:30pm There’s much to like about Justin Peck’s Copland Dance Episodes. Peck is the resident choreographer and artistic adviser of New York City Ballet. A masterful... 
by Gigi | Jul 28, 2023 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
Daniel Ulbricht, Joseph Gordon and Jovani Furlan in Jerome Robbins’Fancy Free.Photo credit: Erin Baiano The NYCB Saturday matinee program of Balanchine/Robbins classics was sheer delight. Focusing on the dancers, the Act II of Balanchine’s Swan Lake demands and... 
by Gigi | Jun 20, 2023 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
“Worlds to Come,” PNB’s last set of performances for its 50th Anniversary Season, streamed digitally June 15-19. The program, with its two world premieres and a live performance premiere, was one of the best I’ve seen at Pacific Northwest Ballet. All three... 
by Gigi | Jun 17, 2023 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Season Encore June 11-15, 2023 celebrating principal dancer Lesley Rausch’s career as a dancer was indeed bittersweet. But, with eight separate pieces (many, excerpts) on the program, it was indeed a reveling in Rausch’s rich career as... 
by Gigi | May 10, 2023 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
Common wisdom/practice among arts critics is to avoid the adjective “interesting” – probably because it is so vague and ambiguous. Meaning everything, it means nothing. Maybe. I think if we take it to mean “singularly worth watching,” “a different sort of dancer worth... 
by Gigi | May 4, 2023 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with delightful music from Felix Mendelssohn, is a crowd pleaser for sure. The choreographer himself must have had fond memories of when he performed, as PNB artistic director notes in his April 12, 2011 post in “Director’s...