[1] Forsythe said he was not planning for a position in a ballet company until Benjamin Millepied, the new director of dance at the Paris Opera contacted him.
[1] The ballet uses seven songs from English musician James Blake's album The Colour in Anything, which uses electronic keyboard and syncopated percussion.
[4] Twenty of them are in blue practice clothes that resemble the Paris Opera Ballet School's uniform, and the 21st dancer, a man, is in dark jeans and a T-shirt.
[10] Laura Cappelle of the Financial Times commented, "Its modernity doesn't lie in extreme displays, but in the complexity, speed and changing directions of the choreography.
"[2] Roslyn Sulcas of New York Times wrote that Blake Works I is "a celebration of the youth, spirits, talent and collective knowledge of a new generation of Paris Opera dancers, who have never, in my experience of the company, looked better than they did throughout Monday's performance."