How heartening to renew acquaintance with the uninhibited and adult eccentricity that BalletX, a company devoted to new choreography, seems to encourage. The first work on the program, “Show Me” (2015), is by Matthew Neenan; the third, “Big Ones” (2016), by Trey McIntyre. They also choreograph for the other one, Pennsylvania Ballet, where Mr. Neenan is resident choreographer. Perhaps the most offbeat choreographer in American ballet, Mr. McIntyre, who often employs pop or rock music, is now in top form. Now his “Big Ones” (whose premiere I reviewed in Philadelphia this February), accompanied by Amy Winehouse recordings, proves marvelous.

Source: New York Times August 17, 2016 21:22 UTC