LA Ballet - NewWaveLA

Los Angeles Ballet brought its most recent repertory evening titled NewWaveLA to the Alex Theatre this past Saturday and while the program was a significant departure from its usual programs of classical and neo classical dance , the four premieres on view didn’t rock the boat much. Many  adventuresome choreographers and their companies already on the LA scene are presenting more daring work than we saw on  this evening of dance but NewWaveLA represents an appealing experiment in the company’s programming.
The four choreographers represented, Mandy Moore, Josie Walsh, Travis Wall and Sonya Tayeh all come with mostly media driven exposure. Moore, Wall and Tayeh have worked regularly on So You Think You Can Dance which also recently broadcast  a segment from  LA BALLET’s Who Cares (Balanchine).  Ballet has a way of overwhelming attempts to push it into new orbits and such was the case with these four ballets which gave us new contexts but not much in the way of new movement, style or substance.

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REVIEW
NEWWAVE LA , LA BALLET
Alex Theatre, Glendale, May 22,2010
By Steven Woodruff