The ballet was simply wonderful. This Post:Ballet is a fabulous group, all classically trained, all with major ballet credentials from prestigious companies and groups. These are dancers of highly acrobatic strength and precision, dancing unshod as well as en pointe. The choreography highly exploits floor dancing as both an extension of space and of dance's language, much more than I have yet seen. This was especially highlighted in "Happiness of Pursuit" and "Flutter," choreographed by Robert Dekkers, the company's artistic director. "Flutter" was also a showcase for male dancers --- especially notable in that the mark of a strong company is the number of male dancers of soloist rank and their technical evenness and consistency.

As a gauge, Smuin Ballet is important to me for its revivals of Smuin and Christensen works, and for modern ballet (now called 'contemporary ballet'); the Royal Danish Ballet is in the vanguard of European companies for contemporary works, and has a large and strong male complement. Yet, I liked tonight's Post:Ballet much better than Smuin Ballet for modern repertoire, and it has better dancers. I also found this company to be much more exciting than the Royal Danish Ballet, which I saw last month at Zellerbach --- and that may be because the Royal Danish Ballet is more tradition-bound (Bournonville school), whereas Post:Ballet started from an unbounded blank slate.

The audience was a young crowd, very respectful as to concert/audience etiquette. These beautiful young people were really into ballet, raptly attentive, and thus are a strong indication of ballet's vitality, its flourishing despite our stressed artistic and financial times, of ballet's future, and its future supporters. It was an altogether uplifting evening. I'm so very glad I could attend, to have experienced it to be so promising for the thriving and enduring future of our treasured performing arts.

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Robert Deckers, the choreographer, did a wonderful job keeping the show fresh and innovative and entertaining. I don't want to give too much away, but it included some other types of performance art and a few surprises. And even if it didn't have those elements, the dancers themselves were wonderful and each piece told its own story. I'm not a guy who usually loves a dance show, but I loved this, and I'm interested to see what comes out of this company next.

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Great event! Excellent seats, well organized, and started right on time.

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