Tonight at 8:00 PM
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You don't want to miss tonight's NYCB Digital Season performance.
You'll be picking your jaw up off the floor after seeing Emily Kikta blaze through the soloist section of Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. Never has a cloud of pink tulle swirled more beautifully. You'll see a majestic, soaring eagle who magically becomes a ballerina. (Didn't Petipa do something with that theme?) Memory of her first performance in this role some eight or nine years ago still gives Old Hag the goose bumps. The whole program tonight is beyond superb, but Emily – oh, Miss Emily...
BRAHMS-SCHOENBERG QUARTET (First Movement)
Ashley Bouder, Russell Janzen*, Emily Kikta
Conductor: Andrew Litton, Filmed on 5/15/2019
DUO CONCERTANT
Megan Fairchild, Anthony Huxley
Solo Violinist: Arturo Delmoni; Solo Pianist: Elaine Chelton. Filmed on 4/30/2019.
DANCES AT A GATHERING (Scherzo and Finale)
Megan Fairchild, Sterling Hyltin, Unity Phelan, Tyler Angle, Adrian Danchig-Waring, and Peter Walker, with Ashley Bouder, Lauren King, Gonzalo Garcia, and Roman Mejia
Solo Pianist: Susan Walters. Filmed on 10/3/2019.
SYMPHONY IN C (Fourth Movement and Finale)
Erica Pereira and Troy Schumacher**, with Ashley Bouder, Maria Kowroski, Indiana Woodward**, Joseph Gordon**, Tyler Angle, and Sebastian Villarini-Velez**
Conductor: Clotilde Otranto. Filmed on 9/28/2018.
Finally had an hour to sit and enjoy the performances. And I pretty much liked the entire group of selections chosen. Quite impressed by Emily Kikta in the "Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet" (girl eats up space and never loses that romantic wind blown quality). "Duo Concertante" was quirky with an undertone of....I don't know...sweetness? Tenderness? I think I need to see it again before I can honestly say I truly liked it. "Symphony in C" is such a showstopper finale ballet and the bling on display almost outshines the crystalline technique of the company. "Dances..." was, for me, the best of the evening....the ending got to me...seeing the cast peering out into the vastness of the theatre, almost with haunted looks as if seeing into the future, having a premonition of what was on its' way to us...and then their gracious bows to each other, their strolling together making their way offstage....nothing like the power of art, and dance in particular, to cause ones' eyes to fill up simply because you are happy and grateful to see such beauty.....
Posted by: Beth CP | October 20, 2020 at 12:54 AM