Big Dance Squeezed Into a Small Space
Yet again, we see that the stage of the Joyce is just too small for a ballet company, particularly if its dancers are expansive and really like to move.
I was sorry for the stalwart Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers trying the other night not to show how constricted they felt as they gave us Tide Harmonic, a recent piece by Christopher Wheeldon: four couples, all of them dancing hard to a score by Joby Talbot that’s relentlessly propulsive (and at times portentous).
