.tilerpeck has been dancing all over Instagram for most of the pandemic, bringing ballet classes and snippets of joy to the masses for months. Her style and joy easily translated to the BalletX dancers in her new piece for them, 'Umoja.'
ARIAN MOLINA SOCA FOR BALLETXBalletX performed throughout the early phases of the pandemic, one of the rare U.S. dance companies to do so. Early on, it scheduled an innovative digital season, and it had pop-up performances in parks and outdoor venues around Philadelphia.outdoors at the Mann Center for the Performing ArtsBut this week, it was time to return home, to the other theater where it is the resident dance company and has been for most of its 16 years: the Wilma Theater.
BalletX opened its summer season on Wednesday night with three mostly light, delicious, happy world premieres. But the company hasn’t left its digital lessons behind. A short film about the making of each piece preceded it, by resident filmmaker Elliot deBruyn. Vail was also where BalletX met Jamar Roberts, resident choreographer of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.and Spanish choreographer Gustavo Ramirez Sansano’s— the Swahili word for “unity” — was probably the biggest draw for most audience members, and it opens the program. Artistic director Christine Cox had given Peck a starting point: music of the same name by Valerie Coleman and played by the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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