The Royal Winnipeg Ballet
The
Royal Winnipeg Ballet will be heading east this month for a four-city tour from
November 7-12 across Atlanta Canada that includes stops in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick, and Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island.
RWB
will be presenting a mixed repertoire program showcasing works by some of
today's most celebrated choreographers, leaving no doubt that the Company
deserves its distinguished global reputation. The impressive four-piece lineup
includes Peter Quanz's In Tandem, Brian Macdonald's Pas D'Action, William
Forsythe's The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude and Jorden Morris' The Doorway:
Scenes from Leonard Cohen.
Joining
RWB on tour in Atlantic Canada will be Canadian songstress Allison Crowe and
American singer-songwriter Cris Williamson, who will be performing live in The
Doorway: Scenes from Leonard Cohen.
Crowe, a native of Nanaimo, B.C., will be performing Cohen's 1984
legendary balladHallelujah while Williamson will sing her version of Cohen's
1967 song Sisters of Mercy. Crowe and Williamson will also be performing a duet
of Cohen¡¯s 1969 song, Bird on a Wire.
The
tour will begin in Halifax with shows on November 7 & 8, then stopping in
Fredericton on November 9 and Charlottetown on November 10 before finishing in
Saint John on November 12.
In Tandem
Rising
international star and RWB alumnus Peter Quanz was commissioned by the
Guggenheim Museum in New York City to create this neo-classical ballet. Set to
the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning Double Sextet by American composer Steve Reich,
In Tandem will take you on a swift-paced journey that is as charming and
complex as its urban birthplace.
Pas D¡¯Action
A
witty story ballet by award-winning Canadian choreographer Brian Macdonald, Pas
D'Action is a humorous portrayal of Princess Naissa and her four suitors that
wonderfully satirizes the posturing and mannerisms of turn-of-the-century
classical ballet.
The Vertiginous Thrill
of Exactitude
Set
to Franz Schubert's Symphony N# 9 in C Major and choreographed by
internationally-acclaimed artist William Forsythe, The Vertiginous Thrill of
Exactitude is a rapid, dynamic ballet full of energy and vitality. The work
embodies the tradition of dance as it explores a range of choreographic
possibilities, testing the dancers' physical limits with its technical rigour.
The Doorway: Scenes from
Leonard Cohen
Created
by Jorden Morris, the visionary behind RWB's smash hit Moulin Rouge - The
Ballet, The Doorway: Scenes from Leonard Cohen will take you inside the
contemplative mind and complex heart of music icon Leonard Cohen. Graceful,
moving and achingly honest, the series of dance vignettes set to Cohen's songs
and poems explores the emotional journey across the threshold to love and
longing.
The
RWB's tour of Atlantic Canada will also serve as a homecoming for corps de
ballet dancer Liam Caines, who grew up in Kingston, New Brunswick. Caines began
dancing in Saint John at Rothessay Ballet School and the Port City Dance
Academy before joining the RWB School Professional Division in 2003. Caines
made his professional debut with the RWB Company in 2006 and has since gone on
to dance numerous roles in several high-profile RWB productions including Mark
Godden's Dracula, Jorden Morris' Moulin Rouge, and Twyla Tharp's The Princess
& The Goblin.
