June 20, 2017
“Review: Sara Mearns Joins Isadora Duncan’s Maenads and Nymphs”
by Alastair Macaulay
“Ms. Mearns, however, dancing “Narcissus” to Chopin (Op. 64, No. 2), bypassed these later echoes of the original, sweeping us into Duncanism’s essence. She even enlarged it: In one repeated jump, the sideways quiver of an ascending foot in the air showed, with marvelously musical precision, the virtuosity that this style can attain. .“