History at their feet – and in the case of pianist Yuxi Qin, at her fingertips – sums up the triple bill that marks the UK debut of Juilliard Dance from New York.
History at their feet – and in the case of pianist Yuxi Qin, at her fingertips – sums up the triple bill that marks the UK debut of Juilliard Dance from New York.
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Mary Brennan
Two dozen students, some recent Juilliard graduates, some still in training, confidently took us from the serene musicality of Limon's Waldstein Sonata (1971/75) – Qin's mercurial touch underpinning the airy elegance of the dance – through the sensual passes of Nacho Duato's Gnawa (2005), with its thrumming Moorish pulses and warm-blooded midnight rituals, and on, almost into the future with Alexander Ekman's Episode 31, made last December on Juilliard's fourth-year class.
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