ABT in London

Arron featured nicely at 15 seconds, 52 seconds then at 2 minutes.

Company B

You MUST check out today's, October 23rd, Arts section of the NY Times!! Pick one up!! Page 10 - our son's spotlighted photo takes up 1/4 of the page! Online New York Times. review and photos are similar but not as impressive as holding the paper in your hands.

...But the whole troupe dances “Company B” with skill and understanding.

Nothing in “Company B” corrupts the innocence of that opening. Subsequent images, however, tell us that these men are going to war, are being injured by gunfire, are dying, are memories. At the end these people are no longer quite a community. Each is leaving the stage alone, sober. The togetherness of the earlier episodes was part of the giddy excitement of wartime. Now it’s goodbye to all that.

“Company B” shows no grief or even suffering. Arron Scott in “Tico-Tico” is all speed and impulsiveness... - Alastair MaCaulay for the New York Times.

then again a week later...

"I praised the very exciting young Daniil Simkin in “Company B,” his “Tico-Tico” role was played with yet more forceful detail by Arron Scott in the first cast."- Alastair MaCaulay for the New York Times.

Scott's "Tico-Tico" showcased him perfectly and his gentle bravado was both exilerating and moving. - Mary Cargill for Dance View Times.

"Tico-Tico", a solo for a male dancer, was performed this night by Arron Scott. An ingenious piece of choreography, the dancer isolates his upper body parts into small bits that jiggle and undulate, pop and quiver as if he were in the throes of St. Vitus Dance -- or, to be current, maybe post-traumatic stress syndrome. Scott was so good that I've got to name him as my second most memorable dancer of the evening. - Marga Anto-Raudsepp on Ballet Talk.

In "Company B," which is new to ABT, the dancers' lightness, stamina and gestural clarity were a revelation, highlighted by Arron Scott's intense and soulful rendition of "Tico-Tico." - Robert Johnson of the Star Ledger.

above photos by Sarah Sterner

in the wing

Tico Tico

Ravenboy will be performing the solo role of Tico in American Ballet Theatre's Premiere of Paul Taylor's Company B. The first performance will be this week at Bard College then they will perform it at City Center in NYC.

Photos below are from his rehearsal today.