October 8, 2018
“IMPRESSIONS: Fall for Dance at New York City Center with Boston Ballet, Sara Mearns, Caleb Teicher & Company, and Cie Hervé KOUBI”
by Deirdre Towers
“Next, for a startling contrast, came New York City Ballet principal Sara Mearns in Dances of Isadora Duncan — A Solo Tribute with Cameron Grant on piano. Mearns shed her turn-out and high extensions in deference to the lilting, skipping spirit of America’s first dancing rebel. She makes us see the music and feel the romantic joy of floating within the patterns set by the composers Chopin, Brahms, and Liszt. Dropping rose petals for the finale, Op 39, No. 15 by Johannes Brahms, Mearns seemed period perfect.“