The new Zurich Ballet evening is long, but by no means boring. Perhaps ballet director Cathy Marston didn't want her recently departed dancer Lucas Valente to plant a garden alone in the Giant Mountains of the great masters. And so she placed the more experienced colleague Andonis Foniadakis at his side. The temporal and artistic framework for the two world premieres is provided in «Timeframed» by William Forsythe's pas de deux series New Suite from 2012 and Hans van Manen's pioneering work—dance with camera—Live from 1979.
In between, the new pieces can stand on their own. They must stand on their own. In contemporary ballet, you don’t often see work from a younger and middle generation as exciting as this. Lucas Valente's Bare is surprising. The choreographer has come a long way since ...
