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Atlanta Ballet: Heart/Beat

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I was disappointed by the poor turnout for Atlanta Ballet’s Heart/Beat program last night. I think that Atlanta Ballet has tended to stage narrative pieces for their February program in the past to maximize ticket sales with the St. Valentines Day boost but this year they went with a mixed repertoire show featuring one piece from each of the three decades of the millennium so far.1 I’m sure turnout will be higher next weekend with V-Day being on the day of the Friday performance but I normally don’t go to the V-Day weekend performances2 and the earlier showings have usually had better turnout. Hopefully next weekend will make up for it.
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Atlanta Ballet: Look/Don’t Touch

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Atlanta Ballet’s Look/Don’t Touch began with a piece by Mark Morris titled Sandpaper Ballet. It was set to the music of Leroy Anderson and featured a large cast of dancers dressed in full-body costumes by Isaac Mizrahi that were mostly green with a little bit of blue sky with random cloud shapes at the top of the torso. If you were to line everyone up, it would look like a rolling meadow on a nice spring day. If you didn’t line everyone up, it looked like the strangest super-hero gang ever. They were lined up through much of the piece, though.
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Atlanta Ballet: MAYhem

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What a great night of dance! Any concerns that I harbored going in that Atlanta Ballet would not pull off this concert were, thankfully, unfounded. The performances by the company as a whole and each dancer individually ranged from decent to excellent and every piece was well realized by the dancers on the stage.
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