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‘A silent film of dance underscored by an album’: inside the audacious Sufjan Stevens musical
With Illinoise Justin Peck has transformed the artist’s 2005 album into an ambitious and eye-opening modern dance show like nothing else on Broadway
Illinoise had its US premiere in Chicago in January and had a full house run at the Armory, but, for Peck, the production’s swift transfer to Broadway truly crescendoes the group effort which includes 18 dancers and the pianist Timo Andres with a live band. He is proud to provide a blueprint for an expanded definition of a Broadway show: “Bringing a work from an art space to Times Square enriches the range of what can be presented to a large audience and be sustained in this realm.” Peck’s effort to push the borders of ballet has been similar. When he became the company’s resident choreographer in 2014, the film-maker Jody Lee Lipes’s made the documentary, Ballet 422, about Peck’s preparation for his original piece titled Paz de la Jolla.
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