BW dancers show impressive choreographic chops in “Works from Within”

Ballet West is finishing its season with “Works From Within,” which opened Wednesday night at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. 

This program, which alternates yearly with the company’s “Choreographic Festival, has long been an incubator for new works by Ballet West dancers and an important part of the season since Adam Sklute was hired as artistic director in 2007. This year’s program includes premieres by returning choreographers Emily Adams and Katlyn Addison, plus newcomers Jazz Khai Bynum, Nicole Fannéy, and Vinicius Lima.

The program opened with the world premiere of Katlyn Addison’s Andromeda. With an original score by Jonathan Sanford, Andromeda is a dramatic retelling of the Greek myth of a beautiful princess, angry gods, a sea monster, and a brave hero. Addison has a nuanced approach to the corps dancers filling the stage, and they moved through the background and foreground in complex layers, into and out of unison...

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