DANCE
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
3:00 PM

Robert Binet / Missy Mazzoli: Orpheus Alive
National Ballet of Canada
Works & Process
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$25-$90
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I personally don't like workshop presentations: I've been burned too often by frankly substandard, underdeveloped early versions of works that turned out, when finished, to be quite good. This piece is about to premiere in Toronto, though, so it should be pretty much ready. But another thing I don't like is seeing excerpts of complete works, especially when I haven't seen the whole work yet. That's what we're getting here, though. So, notwithstanding the excellence of choreographer Binet, the dancers of the National Ballet of Canada, the Mivos Quartet, and most especially composer Mazzoli, I'm going to cross my fingers and wait for a full performance of this piece in New York. (There will also be a panel discussion by the creative team moderated by no less a personage than Wendy Whelan — but to be perfectly honest with you, there are few things I'm less interested in hearing than what artists think about their own work.)

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