Alexei Ratmansky's 'Symphony #9

Sarah Van Patten and Luke Ingham in Ratmansky’s Symphony #9 from Shostakovich Trilogy, San Francisco Ballet, April 2015. - Vanessa Zahorian and James Sofranko gleefully led their sporty fellow villagers in folksy dances, while Sarah Van Patten and Luke Ingham’s adagio suggested the dread that underlay the smug Soviet façade; Hansuke Yamamoto wandered among them with pliant jumps and turns…
 

Dance

Rashaun Mitchell - Light Years (New York,  April 2015) -  - The dance had a pleasingly interplanetary feel, as if it were taking place outside of time and gravity’s pull. Within this unfamiliar landscape, the four dancers engaged in curious behavior, launching into loping runs and dives and slithering glides. They seemed half-animal, half-extraterrestrial, at times relating to each other, at others orbiting off into their own worlds…

 

Pensativa

Ulisse Caputo (Italian, 1872-1948) – Pensativa (Oil on canvas) - - Inspired by artists such as Ignacio Zuloaga, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Anders Zorn, Caputo became preoccupied with the depiction of light. His enlivened handling of light and colour brings a dynamic energy to his female subjects, his brushstrokes and rich palette adding great vibrancy…