by Gigi | Jul 22, 2024 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
July 13 2024 7:30 evening Boosted by the music of Jonathan Dove, Michael Zev Gordon, Ottorino Respighi, Aldemaro Romeo, and William Grant, Amy Hall Garner’s Underneath, there is Light is a thrilling ballet. The well-designed costumes of Marc Happel—the women in airy... 
by Gigi | Jul 19, 2024 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
Featured image: New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Peter Walker in George Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes/Photo credit: Erin Baiano July 13, 2024 2:00 pm matinee Once a several week residency at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC), with as much Balanchine as... 
by Gigi | May 1, 2024 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
Featured image: Peter Boal as a student, courtesy Peter Boal Edward Villella, mid-air leap, in costume for his role as the Peppermint Stick in Tschaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” as performed by the New York City Ballet at City Center (LOC Archives)... 
by Gigi | Apr 30, 2024 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
Courtesy: PNB, PNB dancers Twyla Tharp’s Sweet Fields is a beautiful rendering of 18th- and 19th-century American hymns and Shaker songs to free-wheeling, almost-ethereal phrases. Dancers move in loose, open shirts and pants or mid-calf length skirts performing... 
by Gigi | Apr 5, 2023 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “Boundless” program featured choreographers Alejandro Cerrudo, Jessica Lang, and Penny Saunders. This review is of a film made opening night, March 17, 2023. In Penny Saunders’ Wonderland, Michael Wall supplies original music and adapts...