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...amalgam with occasional bursts of fireworks.The program opener was Jorma Elo’s “In on Blue,” a sort of “Midsummer Night’s Dream” set in water, evoking a fairy underworld and land of mer-people. Elo, a Finnish choreographer and the acclaimed “successor” to William Forsythe, evidently takes transition to the modern very seriously: the ballet featured women in bejeweled tutus but no pointe shoes, and steps in the purely classical ballet idiom crassly segued into flexed feet and robotic contractions...
...staccato effect was odd and disorienting. It contributed to a certain Entstellung—a distortion of classical movement. Yet Elo concluded with a series of lifts that were all the more stunning because of the disjointed dance that preceded it. Suddenly the classical vocabulary had new nuance, because it had been broken down and pieced together again. The finale was the center piece of the show. It achieved what “Next Generation” intended to do—to make the classic...
...world premiere of “Break the Eyes” was a success for Resident Choreographer Jorma Elo. He bluntly portrayed a tension that is subtly present in much of the Mozart music accompanying it—that between modern life and the outdated past...
Despite the discordant sense it evoked, “Break the Eyes” had a technically impressive choreography that was nearly flawlessly executed. Elo manipulated the most classical of movements into provocative, eclectic scenes. Corkscrew leaps and strange coils tested the limits of gravity—and of dancers’ limbs—before the audience...
...HUPD officers responded to the alleged theft of an Elo Entuitive touchscreen monitor from Paine Hall...