Biches Show Curtain at City Center (Wednesday's tech rehearsal)

Romi Beppu in Class on the 5th floor.

Rehearsal for the 2nd performance - Owen Gaj, Christopher Sellars and Thomas Mattingly with the Ladies of Ballet West.

Owen Gaj, Kate Crews and Thomas Mattingly.

Katie Chritchlow and Allison DeBona warm up before performance #2.

Photo from the New York Times.

“In Nijinska’s stateside-scarce Les Biches – the festival highlight, danced precisely and vibrantly by Utah’s Ballet West – classicism takes the giddy mannerisms of 1920s high society through its paces, and both sides gain clarity from it. This 1924 ballet features a party hostess undulating with self-importance; an impassive “page-boy” girl, all flat lines and endless balances; three muscle-flexing brutes; two girlish lesbians; and and a spritely chorus of flappers. Nijinska creates these caricatures and mysteries – dancers flattened and dancers deepened – with a cornucopia of fascinating steps.”  - Apollinaire Scherr

-Mark