NYC: Three Short Ballets from the Big Apple review

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23rd March, 2012

Review

For a moment, I thought I was watching an American ballet company – impressive clean lines and athletic precision. In fact, it was the Auckland opening of the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s NYC: Three Short Ballets from the Big Apple. The RNZB’s first season under American artistic director Ethan Stiefel is already revealing untapped strengths in artistic expression. French-American choreographer Benjamin Millepied’s contemporary interpretation of Johannes Brahms’s 28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini is nevertheless imbued with old-fashioned romantic intrigues. Ten dancers ...

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