Nederlands Dans Theater

DANCE
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 4 – 7, 2020
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY

New York City Center
131 West 55th Street, Midtown, Manhattan

$35-$150
https://www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/2019-2020/nederlands-dans-theater/

Nederlands Dans Theater (this is NDT1, their primary company; they also have a junior company [NDT2] and at least in the past had a senior one [NDT3]) is the Cadillac of International Modern Dance, for all the good and bad that implies.  The machine-tooled perfection of the dancing is astonishing; the machine-tooled perfection of the dancing verges on the inhuman.  Like the similarly afflicted Berlin Philharmonic, though, you can't miss it, because there's nothing else like it.  And of course they get great pieces.  Anyone who saw Peeping Tom's 32 Rue Vandenbraden at BAM last year will be eager in the extreme to see that company's co-artistic director Gabriela Carizzo's The missing door, a violent "surreal thriller" with a mobile set.  There's also a piece by Marco Goecke, whose fragmented style can be challenging — but not to these dancers.  And a piece by NDT's artistic director and advisor, Sol León and Paul Lightfoot (no offense but I miss Jirí Kylián).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I guess if your slick restaurant group is going to open a big new place you bill as a brasserie in Midtown, of course you'd call it Quality Bistro, cuz after all words have no meaning (and since it's in Midtown, you assume your prospective clientele doesn't know anything about anything anyway).  In any event, a very welcome addition to across the street from City Center.