Life in the Four Seasons Review – dancers of all ages experience spring | Dancing

Met was a great idea: to dance in the four seasons of life, with dancers whose ages range from spring to winter, which is meant to be a remake of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Neatly. It’s amazing to see older dancers who are able to bring all of their experiences to the stage. But the thing that is common to many people, who all create different styles, is that the dance can be somewhere in between: everyone can do it but it doesn’t play to everyone’s strengths. The movement reaches a bit of a street dance, locked in a basic 4/4 rhythm. It’s when you see a signature dancer – the brilliant Michael Naylor having trouble/falling in the club, for example – that you think, “Oh, this is what we’re missing.”

Choreography by American Alexzandra Sarmiento, who works mainly in music and as a theater director, together with director Tinuke Craig. Prepared by three dancers for each season, they are always dressed in blue, pink and orange, which we come to realize represent the head, heart and guts of a person, although it is not clear at first. The set has boxes printed with “HEAD”, “HEART” and “GUT”, but (to me, anyway) it wasn’t obvious because it didn’t seem relevant to the dance.