ABT is in Chicago at the Auditorium Theatre (can’t they find a more interesting name for the theater?) Friday-Sunday with theme All-American Celebration consisting of Bach Partita, Some Assembly Required, Sinatra Suite, and Fancy Free. The Chicago Tribune’s Laura Moltzahn reviews the performance and is particularly fond of Twyla Tharp’s Bach Partita:
A bravura exercise in choreographic foreground and background, “Bach Partita” offers sustained close-ups of its three principal couples, who emerge as distinct human beings, echoed by a layer of soloist couples and a large, blurry female corps. Friday night, the three principal women made strong impressions (as did the exuberant Calvin Royal III, a corps dancer in a principal role). With her decisive shoulders and flourishes, Misty Copeland was a tiny powerhouse; Gillian Murphy, an exemplar of reserve and authority; Stella Abrera, a facile little creature perfectly suited to the dance’s “disintegration,” as its structures apparently but never actually dissolved.
What a wonderful blog you have. I just now ran across it, and I’ll be returning regularly.
ABT is in Chicago at the Auditorium Theatre (can’t they find a more interesting name for the theater?)
I don’t think they need to. That’s the theater’s original, historical name, and history is interesting when we take the time to take an interest it. This beautiful theater has seen a lot of history. From personal memory (and this is only a 12-year, 70’s-80’s slice: Bloodrock (don’t ask), the Grateful Dead, Bob Marley, Pat Robertson ( puhleeze don’t ask), Moshe Dayan (me and about 50 other people – the ADL or some such group had issued a boycott) New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, and Twyla Tharp. Not to mention the high school tour in which the guide demonstrated the great acoustics by leading us up to the Gallery and then talking to us onstage.
Thanks for your kind comments and personal perspective of Auditorium Theatre. Sounds like a great, historic theater in a great city. I have always loved Chicago.