By Sanjoy Roy The Royal Ballet has followed through on the success of Crystal Pite’s one-act Flight Pattern (2017) by expanding it into a full-evening triptych called Light of Passage. All three acts are cast in shadows set against suspended auroras of light, accompanied by the ebb and flow of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful
By Marisa C. Hayes “How would you dance if you knew you were going to die?” asked Pina Bausch in 1975 while choreographing her expressionist The Rite of Spring. Now a cast of dancers from 14 African nations explores the same question amid the backdrop of an ongoing pandemic that grounded their international tour in
By Steve Sucato Charlotte Ballet’s 50th Anniversary Celebration program, delayed from 2020 because of the global pandemic, was worth the wait. The final production for outgoing artistic director Hope Muir (now artistic director at the National Ballet of Canada), the program cast a wide net in terms of audience tastes, with four topflight works that