Pillars of Fire.

ABT and Gill's City Center season opens to grand reviews: "Gillian Murphy as Hagar, the repressed heroine, knew that a Tudor dancer emotes through movement, not the face, and much of her impact came through sheer muscular power, especially in her space-devouring leaps...The beauty of Ms. Murphy's performance was in its contrast, between her dazed outcast and a desperate but not hysterical woman whose emotions visibly surge through her body." Also in dance news, the Globe profiles Ethan Stiefel, my sister's boyfriend.