Review: Jorma Elo Illuminates Boston's Opera House
A Look at Opening Night of Boston Ballet's 'Elo Experience.'
A packed Opera House rose to their feet Thursday night in honor of the opening performance of Boston Ballet’s Elo Experience– and deservedly so. What was a two hour production felt more like a fleeting abstract dream - a hypnotic display of dance, so technically rebellious that dancers often took the form of something unrecognizable and inhuman. Jorma Elo sat in the audience, hand pensively on head, as his visions, past and present, unfolded. The Finnish-born Elo has been Boston Ballet’s Resident Choreographer since 2005 – and it shows. Thursday night’s performance was classical ballet drenched in a high-energy modernism – a style that has become his own. One so demanding that we can only assume the company’s confident, fluid execution, is…
Francesca Piper Koss
9:27 pm on Friday, March 11, 2011
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