They had never seen such a performance from their Ballet de l’Opéra in Paris. Incredibly fast, light, and yet explosive. All body parts in constant motion, extremely precise, driven by a dry, pulsating drumbeat. A drive as if the Palais Garnier had moved from Paris to the US West Coast, which is particularly evident in the solo by dancer Eric Pinto Cata. Thus, Morgann Runacre-Temple and Jessica Wright, who presented the double bill Empreintes with Marcos Morau, appear completely unimpressed by the codes and traditions of the French school. Morau's Étude meanders between shadow and light, but Arena by the two British women is in a completely different register.
After the kick-start, Arena, a choreography for 16 dancers, is at a crossroads. “At first, we wanted to create a piece that relied ...
