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When asked about the process of making\u00a0Beautiful Once<\/em>, Jodie Gates\u2019 third commission for BalletX, one of the dancers said, half-jokingly, \u201cWe should call it Wonder Woman. She\u2019s teaching us to rule the universe!\u201d Gates laughed out loud hearing this, then explained that she wants to see the women \u201cdrive the movement and own their power.\u201d Especially when partnered in turns or lifts, Gates wants the women to be active rather than passive. And when en pointe, Gates asks the women to dance on every surface of the shoe\u2014the side, the top, the bottom\u2014to \u201cmake friends\u201d with it. The result is risky-looking, with radical inclines where the body tips way off vertical. The male partners are challenged to keep pace with the ladies in rehearsal, all experimenting to see how far they can stretch toward abandon, toward near-falling, and to find the maximum release before snapping back into strong upright posture for a balance or pirouette. Gates says that the BalletX dancers\u2019 ability to move fluidly between that kind of release and the more held verticality of classical ballet is a sign of their deep artistry.<\/p>\n

For Gates, who danced with Pennsylvania Ballet and has restaged ballets there by William Forsythe, returning to BalletX and to Philadelphia feels like coming home. Based in Los Angeles now, she wears many hats including directing the University of Southern California\u2019s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance.<\/p>\n

Beautiful Once\u00a0<\/em>is a close collaboration with Ryan Lott of Son Lux. Gates values the rich counterpoint in Lott\u2019s vocal and chamber music tracks, which help set the piece\u2019s mood and amplify its meaning. Along with using music as a starting place, Gates shared her current contemplations about experiencing community with the dancers, Lott, and her other collaborators. Observing the dancers in their rigorous work together, she says \u201cI can see that it\u2019s feeding their souls.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matthew Neenan considers community in quite a different way in\u00a0Let mortal tongues awake,<\/em>\u00a0his newest work for BalletX. Knowing that the piece would premiere at the Prince Theater, he noticed how the ledges on either side of its stage offer the option of placing dancers at differing heights. To him that suggested themes of power struggles and submission. The resulting work portrays individuals, couples and groups challenged through their relationships to authority. Their chins thrust forward and their shoulders hunch as they battle for dominance or demand to be loved. With its musical selections ranging from the baroque, to found sound, to a patriotic song, its implications are broad, from the personal, to the political, to the universal.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Castrati<\/em>\u00a0by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa (2011) there\u2019s yet another kind of grouping, an imagined gathering of the seven last castrati. The dancers convey the paradox of these figures\u2014the lush beauty of their voices and the music written for them along with the torment of those neutered in the name of exquisite song. While castrati are history, the suffering required of artists to produce certain kinds of art remains to this day.<\/p>\n

By Lisa Kraus, Dance Writer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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