Dance: The Sarasota Ballet at the Joyce

  The Joyce's closed it's 2017-2018 season with the return of The Sarasota Ballet.  With Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami visiting in June and Sarasota Ballet last week, New Yorkers and Tri-Staters got a good look at Florida's thriving dance scene.  (Miami City Ballet comes to City Center in the fall.)  The August 18 matinee exemplified the excitement with a ballet not seen locally in a decade, another glimpse at the company's enviable Frederick Ashton repertory, and a guest appearance by Marcelo Gomes. Program B opened with Christopher Wheeldon's There Where She Loved.  Created for The Royal Ballet in 2000, it was last

Dance: The Joyce Ballet Festival

The annual Joyce Ballet Festival showcases the incredibly high level and high-energy of American ballet.  This is a time of reflection, renewal and reconfiguration in ballet, and the two companies described here are conduits of that positive change. Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami (June 26-27) Ballet may never rate as high as Disneyland, but Miami now has two major dance companies  Dimensions Dance Theatre, founded in 2016 by former Miami City Ballet married principles Carlos Guerra and Jennifer Kronenberg, opened The Festival on June 26.  Founded in 2016, the company's gifted, personable dancers have already mastered an eclectic repertory. Guerra and Kronenberg themselves

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