Reviews of David Rozenblatt’s ballet Three Point Turn
NEW YORK TIMES
“Everyone onstage dances like hell, and when we get to hell, it will be full of ballets like this. Its loud rock score, by David Rozenblatt, sounds like a refrigerator copulating with a hot tin roof.”
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Danced to live percussion by David Rozenblatt, the piece initially seems a formula vehicle for three color-coded couples. But soon, very soon, Rhoden shatters the formula and all those comforting, hackneyed choreographic symmetries that Ratmansky relies on for something rawer and more genuinely contemporary. “Three Point Turn” is relentlessly overdriven, but at least it’s going somewhere.
With Desmond Richardson and Diana Vishneva
after performing my Ballet "Three Point Turn" Moscow '08
NEW YORK POST
“The final piece, Dwight Rhoden's "Three Point Turn" to violent percussion by David
Rozenblatt, was a sextet led by Vishneva and Richardson that combined the loud with the obvious to an almost impressive degree of banality.”
DAILY PILOT
“Post performance, guests in attendance were invited to meet the cast, choreographers and musicians. Vishneva made a grand entrance to the applause of the crowd surrounded by choreographers Alexei Ratmansky, Moses Pendleton and Dwight Rhoden. Rhoden, who choreographed “Three Point Turn,” joined composer David Rozenblatt, who wrote the music to the piece being congratulated by the enthusiastic dance aficionados.”
GAY CITY NEWS
“The Rhoden/Richardson relationship will surely go down in history as among the greatest artistic symbioses.” “The music is an excellent and unusual score of electronic music composed and performed live by David Rozenblatt. ‘Three Point Turn’ ends with the pairs in unexpected kisses - Rhoden's manner is not always linear and pretty -- to a shivery, tinkling triangle in the music.”
VILLAGE VOICE
Desmond Richardson—get(s) to show off (his) chops in Dwight Rhoden's balletomodern, Three Point Turn. Although the piece ends with the couples in clinches, they spend most of their time conducting push-pull relationships at a frenzied pace that's driven by David Rozenblatt's violent live-percussion-plus-electronic music. In a program note, Rhoden mentions that love, his purported subject, "can whip, hurl, and throw one in unexpected
directions." That, literally, is what he depicts.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
“(Three Point Turn…. a pointless, narcissistic exercise by choreographer Dwight Rhoden and composer David Rozenblatt…”
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