What's not listed (yet) on the Joyce website is that the PNB Joyce program will include a world premiere by Justin Peck to George Antheil's music (at least the music listed on the PNB website). It won't make its Seattle premiere until November.
"Tide Harmonic" premiered at the end of the season-before-last, and the Cerrudo was new this past Spring. "Tide Harmonic" is in the Wheeldon leotard ballet style -- Polyphonia, After the Rain -- and the central PDD reads a lot differently depending on who is dancing it. Unfortunately, Maria Chapman, who took over the role when Carla Korbes was injured, is about to give birth, and October seems a bit soon, but if Kaori Nakamura at near-40 could dance Giselle three months after giving birth, you never know. Cerrudo's piece is in the contemporary generic style that's starting to become a blur to me, but it has a strong section. Again, unfortunately, the woman who danced the female role in that section, Rachel Foster, is pregnant and is scheduled to give birth in September. I know who'd I cast in her place, but it will look very different no matter who else is cast: Foster is unique.
The Wheeldon and the Peck are targeted for the NY audience the way casting Korbes, Seth Orza, and Sarah Ricard Orza as much as possible is. The Cerrudo was commissioned as part of the Rudolf Nureyev Prize awarded by the Joyce, so it was going to be on the program no matter what.
) One of the best I've seen was when PNB was here:
