Review: Dreamy cowboys and a ballet bath
Elle Macy and Dylan Wald in Alejandro Cerrudos Future Memory. The work by Alejandro Cerrudo is part of the Pacific Northwest Ballet's latest digital program. Angela Sterling via The New York Times.
by Brian Seibert
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- It takes only two oscillating notes to establish a world. The coyote howl that Ennio Morricone wrote for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly immediately conjures an idea of the American West: desert, tumbleweeds, gunslingers.
To hear those notes and see ballet pointe shoes thrown down like gauntlets is a joke. This is how Pacific Northwest Ballets latest digital program begins, with the Morricone theme playing over a montage of dancers rehearsing in masks, warming up, preparing for a show. The sequence is tongue-in-cheek but also establishes something serious: This excellent company is still at work, making and performing new dances.