Price Suddarth in Alejandro Cerrudo’s Little Mortal Jump. Photo © Angela Sterling
Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle – March 19, 2016.
For this season’s Director’s Choice, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s artistic director Peter Boal selected works by three choreographers whom he regards among the “truly gifted” of this era: Justin Peck, Alejandro Cerrudo and Paul Gibson. Incidentally, both Peck and Cerrudo are also dancers in the companies – New York City Ballet and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, respectively – for which these works were created. Gibson, in addition to his choreographic pursuits, is a ballet master at PNB and created his piece for the company.
The program presented:
Rush by Paul Gibson – dramatic silhouettes constructed scenes of Balanchine-inspired neoclassical ballet.
Little Mortal Jump by Alejandro Cerrudo – is delightfully theatrical, and its expressive dance vocabulary whisks us away into the dancers’ world.
Year of the Rabbit by Justin Peck – Peck’s first creation for the New York City Ballet impresses with structural complexity and charm.
Read the review in BachTrack.
Angelica Generosa with the company in Justin Peck’s Year of the Rabbit. Photo © Angela Sterling
Lesley Rausch and Jerome Tisserand in Paul Gibson’s Rush. Photo © Angela Sterling
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