July 20, 2019
Sketching out the new in ballet
At the end of Amy Seiwert’s new ballet, Verses, the woman sitting next to me in the audience said, “That was lovely. It made me want to be a dancer, and I have never felt that before.”
What more can we ask of art, than it urge us to open our eyes and our desires to experience the world in as many different ways as possible?
What more can a choreographer hope for, than to reach, ultimately, deep into our sense of empathy?
Although choreographer Amy Seiwert has been the...