As City Center expands opportunities for artists to create and perform, they launched a new dance series, Artists at the Center. Dance superstar Tiler Peck reflects on creating this inaugural show.
“This opportunity continues to stretch every part of my being. It has given me the chance to grow as a director and artist,” says Peck. "I am able to create with dancers that inspire me and help me build on my own vision and ability. At this point in my career, I want to take chances. I want to continue evolving and developing and I don’t believe anything great happens from playing it safe.”
I decided to create the program around that exact ideal. I wanted to build a program New York audiences would only experience in this particular time and space. It would be a program that would have something for everyone but have the sophistication and pedigree that would get even the most bona fide dance aficionados excited. I wanted to show a program entirely consisting of premieres, which lead to two New York premieres—one live world premiere and a new commission just for these evenings.
Alonzo King has such an important voice in the dance world and I was yearning to get in the room and learn from him. As a result, thepas de deux he created for Roman Mejia and me is also a product of the pandemic. I reached out to Alonzo and asked if he wanted to work together and he said “yes,” so we flew to San Francisco and created a bubble so we could work safely and create this intimate pas de deux.
Brunner: How did you go about choreographing your own work, Thousandth Orange, which you created in 2019?
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