WILDE FLOW

Watching VAI’s new Legends of Ballet CD, it’s all interesting, all the Bell Telephone Hour performances by NYCB and ABT stars. But writing about Patricia Wilde, I’ve been watching the Square Dance excerpts more than anything else. It’s worth noting what she does with the monkey-wrench moments of weird, turned-in, showgirl that Balanchine tosses in. They don’t faze her.  They don’t make her tighten up. She doesn’t make them needlessly accentuated. It all flows, and she brings out the sexiness, the nobility, the arresting oddity in the most playful and seemingly effortless way.