NYCB Presents: Contemporary Choreography III

Ballet thrives on forward momentum, and this program exemplifies how the company has continued to support choreographers moving dance toward new horizons. Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH remains one of the most zestful and intoxicating ballets he has created for NYCB. In the esteemed choreographer Lar Lubovitch’s Each In Their Own Time, two male dancers evoke a mood of romantic rapture in a work set to Brahms piano pieces. Distant Cries, created in 2005 by Edwaard Liang, a former member of the company and currently the artistic director of The Washington Ballet, uses the music of the baroque composer Albinoni for a captivating pas de deux of quiet intensity and emotional ambiguity. And after premiering in 2002 at San Francisco Ballet, Christopher Wheeldon’s Continuum enters the repertory, part of his acclaimed trilogy of streamlined leotard ballets created to the music of György Ligeti, which also includes his Polyphonia and Morphoses.