Excellent timing is among the many traits that are essential to dancers, and the Kyiv City Ballet has certainly earned a reputation as a company with precise timing that went far beyond skillful pirouettes or grand jetes.
One day before Ukraine was invaded by Russia earlier this year, the company unknowingly boarded one of the last flights out of Kyiv to Paris, the first stop on a planned tour. The company has not returned home since then, as France gave the group shelter, and it is now embarked on a 15-city tour of U.S. cities.
The Kyiv City Ballet, comprised of a number of experienced soloists, as well as many young dancers, is led by its founder, Ivan Kozlov, a choreographer who, as it happens, was a former dancer in the Eifman company. Kozlov was among several choreographers whose work was on display at the Auditorium in a program that subtly captured elements of the temper of these times, as well as the company’s roots in classical ballet.
“Thoughts,” the deeply moving opening work on the program — with haunting modern choreography by Vladyslav Dobshynskyi, and a score featuring work by such contemporary composers as Nils Frahm, Burkhard Dallwitz, Max Richter and Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy — centered around a desperately lonely man trying to make contact with an elusive woman, and surrounded by a crowd of people from whom he seems isolated.
The dramatic characterizations in this piece are as engaging as the dancing is wholly delightful, with a shy guy surprised that he can attract a beautiful girl; a macho guy assuming he will easily get what he wants; a couple of well-to-do, self-important older men arrogantly strutting around in their fancy suits and hats thinking they can buy a woman; a couple of traditional love matches taking hold, and more.
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