With a wealth of urgency and powerful expression, Boston Ballet’s wonderful Fall Experience features a world premiere and an array of innovative pieces that depict the isolation and bleakness of the season as well as the excitement of what is in store.
With incredible choreography by Crystal Pite and music by Max Richter, The Seasons’ Canon finale is one of the most amazing pieces that I have ever witnessed from the Boston Ballet. The Fall Experience is not to be missed.
Boston Ballet’s Fall Experience continues at Citizens Bank Opera House in Boston, Massachusetts through Sunday, November 3. The production is one hour and 50 minutes with one intermission. Click here for more information and for tickets.
Featuring Christine Vitale on violin and Sienna Tabron on piano, the world premiere of Lia Sirio’s After is steeped in shadows and the only light shown is illuminating from a white cavern. John Farrell’s minimalist set design with Brandon Stirling Baker’s mood induced lighting highlights the stirring exuberance of the dancers. In flowing and translucent clothing, After features an array of enthralling pas de deux and a wealth of tender moments between the dancers. Fueled by piano and fiddle-infused urgent rhythms, After is evocative and expressive as the lighting morphs into a beautiful teal background with subtle bursts of color. This multi-dimensional piece depicts isolation and ingrates sharp staccato dance movements blending modern and traditional dance.
In suit and tails, pianist Alex Foaksman joins duo Jeffrey Cirio and Gearóid Solan onstage for Ein von Viel. Cirio and Solan demonstrate their athleticism and pliable skills in this powerful piece filled with swift, pronounced and intricate movements. Foaksman performing onstage as Cirio and Solan synchronize, playfully compete and complement each other to splendid selections by Bach.
In front of one studio light designed by Brandon Stirling Baker, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber’s fiddle-laden score lays the groundwork for this bustling and intense dance in Elo’s Plan to B. Concise, surefooted, and sharp moves dominate this winding and briskly sweeping performance that features Chyrstyn Fentroy, Viktorina Kapitonova, Daniel R. Durrett, Yue Shi, Sun Woo Lee and Schuyler Wijsen.
Under a gleaming and morphing light by Jay Gower Taylor and Tom Visser, the Boston Ballet unveils a vision like none other with The Seasons’ Canon. Crystal Pite’s intricate and meticulously detailed chorography to Max Richter’s version of Vivaldi’s mesmerizing The Four Seasons makes The Seasons’ Canon a superlative experience. An incredible vision in every sense of the word, The Seasons’ Canon is innovative and unique as dancers pulse, sway, and tumble with such fluidity and precision that it must be seen. Moving like one organism with grace and intensity, the sheer exactitude and congruent nature of these movements cannot be overstated. It is an exciting and commanding piece with bursts of energy as the landscape transforms into shades of silver, orange, and gold, exquisite in each season. It is a haunting and brilliant performance sure to stay with you long after the piece has ended.
Boston Ballet’s The Fall Experience continues at Citizens Bank Opera House in Boston, Massachusetts through Sunday, November 3. The production is one hour and 50 minutes with one intermission. Click here for more information and for tickets.