It’s rare to find a choreographer who makes you feel as if you aren’t waiting for something to happen, because it’s already happening—every moment is “a visible act of life,” as Merce Cunningham once said. At the New York debut of the Balletto Teatro di Torino on Tuesday evening, before a small but enthusiastic audience, 31-year-old Matteo Levaggi demonstrated that he possesses this elusive talent. Levaggi displays an infallible sense of how long to sustain a pattern or gesture before introducing another. He knows when to focus attention on a single dancer and when eclectic groups can spark interest; when to arrange a static line of bodies in the center and when to have them move along the edges. She observes how life flows—“the rain falling from the clouds and prompting you to go to the pharmacy for a coffee, everything that happens to everything else,” as Cunningham said—and finds it marvelous."
Apollinaire Scherr, Financial Times NYC