Dances across the Plaza
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| Posted by David Hallberg
Last night I hopped over to the other side of the plaza to catch a Jerome Robbins program at City Ballet. I was blown away with one of Robbins’ master works, Dances at a Gathering. Robbins, in my opinion, has such a way of humanizing ballet and making it about PEOPLE dancing not DANCERS dancing. The cast was so strong and were clearly so comfortable with the choreography, that there was such comfort on stage and ease in the audience. I haven’t had this emotional of a reaction towards a performance since Sankai Juku at BAM.
I was thinking last night that I almost don’t want to dance these gems… Dances, Brandenburg Concerto, In the Night… because I want to just sit in the audience and enjoy it for once. The phrase “Ignorance is bliss” holds so true when you know a ballet. You always go over the steps in you mind, even though you are not dancing. It creates a different experience altogether. You think about different interpretations and whether or not a lift or a turn will work. Last night, I just enjoyed the performance. A euphoric experience
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