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Moving now to Grischa Lichtenberger’s “Kamilhan: Il y a Péril en la Demeure,” he dances with Osipova, sometimes with Sambé, their lines moving through balletic stretch, idiomatic, naturalistic gesture and a more contemporary weightedness.

From New York Times • May 19, 2021

The work’s melodramatic, militaristic formations had a modern-dance weightedness and became perplexingly stuck, with the dancer’s feet fixed like those of people pretending to ski.

From New York Times • May 4, 2015

This was a smart way to add emotion to the muscular weightedness and rolling fluidity of the Urban Bush Women’s style; the physical and emotional combined to draw us in and tell a story.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2015

Mr. Taylor’s style has always had a few ballet qualities, but his dancers have always leavened that with a rich weightedness that almost no ballet dancer can approach.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2012