Performance Schedule

Programme A

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Apollo & Soul & Tarantella & World Premiere of Crepuscular by Vanesa G. R. Montoya

27 août, 2021 at 20:00

Apollon musagète
George Balanchine’s Apollo is a high point of neoclassical style, a spare and poetic work he created for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in 1928 at just 24 years old. The title role – the Greek God in his youth – is iconic and requires a balance of exuberance and restraint. A perfect partnership between music and movement, Apollo is full of poignant imagery and merges rigorous classical technique with playful, jazz-infused innovations.

Cast:
Apollon musagète
Brendan Saye

Terpsichore
Svetlana Lunkina

Polymnie
Jeannine Haller

Calliope
Miyoko Koyasu

The Bedroom Pas De Deux from Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet perform the famous bedroom pas de deux the morning after they are secretly wed and Romeo has been banished from Verona. The youthful abandon of their first meeting is replaced by a deeper sense of connection and foreboding tragedy as they face the consequences of their forbidden love.Romeo and Juliet perform the famous bedroom pas de deux the morning after they are secretly wed and Romeo has been banished from Verona. The youthful abandon of their first meeting is replaced by a deeper sense of connection and foreboding tragedy as they face the consequences of their forbidden love.

Cast:
Juliet
Sonia Rodriguez 

Romeo
Naoya Ebe

Soul

Originally created for film as part of the 2020/21 virtual season, Soul combines two duets to explore the enclosed, private space of romantic relationships. The power and character of these relationships are revealed only in glimpses – a gesture, a glance – to those on the outside. Set to the music of Max Richter, Soul is a gorgeous work from Dora Award-winning Canadian choreographer Jera Wolfe.

Cast:
Guillaume Côté and Tanya Howard
Teagan Richman-Taylor and Ben Rudisin

Tarantella
George Balanchine created Tarantella in 1964 for Edward Villella and Patricia McBride, two virtuosic dancers at New York City Ballet. Brief and energetic, the pas de deux whirls along to Gottschalk’s score with nimble footwork, soaring jumps and spins, which the dancers perform either side by side or in turns, as though daring one another to even greater heights of agility and speed.

Cast:
Ayano Haneishi and Skylar Campbell

World Premiere of Crepuscular by Vanesa G. R. Montoya
The night is alive with meaning in a lyrical new work by Vanesa G. R. Montoya, an acclaimed choreographer and Principal Dancer with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. Set to both original solo works and arrangements of some of Chopin’s most lyrical works, this work presents a mystical side to life where visions, fears and romance can flourish. Vanesa’s movement vocabulary reflects her experience as a dancer and layers contemporary elements on a strong classical foundation.

Cast:
Blue Couple
Christopher Gerty (Dark) and Jason Ferro (Light)

Purple Couple
Tene Ward and Scott McKenzie

Grey Couple
Brenna Flaherty and Kota Sato

Dusty Rose Couple
Antonella Martinelli and Larkin Miller

Stage Managers:
Jeff Morris
Liliane Stillwell

Programme B

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Trase Pa & Bluebird Pas de Deux from The Sleeping Beauty & in a state of vanishing & Bedroom Pas de Deux from Romeo and Juliet & The Dreamers Ever Leave You Excerpt

28 août & 29, 2021 at 20:00

Trase Pa
Kevin A. Ormsby, Artistic Director of KasheDance, created Trase Pa for the virtual season in 2020/21, making his choreographic debut with the National Ballet. A stylistically inventive work for three dancers, Trase Pa considers the ancestries that dancers bring to their work, drawing inspiration from themes and structures in the music of Haitian-born composer David Bontemps.

Cast:
Tanya Howard, Teagan Richman-Taylor, Ben Rudisin

Bluebird Pas de Deux from The Sleeping Beauty
The famous Bluebird Pas de Deux from Act III of Rudolf Nureyev’s The Sleeping Beauty is thrilling to watch, with brilliant jumps and turns to match the brightness of Tchaikovsky’s score. With an airiness that belies its athleticism, the pas de deux is often performed as a standalone piece at galas and festivals.

Cast:
Oiseau bleu
Siphesihle November

Princesse Florine
Tina Pereira

The Bedroom Pas de Deux from Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet perform the famous bedroom pas de deux the morning after they are secretly wed and Romeo has been banished from Verona. The youthful abandon of their first meeting is replaced by a deeper sense of connection and foreboding tragedy as they face the consequences of their forbidden love.

Cast:
Juliet
Jurgita Dronina (Aug 28)
Sonia Rodriguez (Aug 29)

Romeo
Naoya Ebe

in a state of vanishing
in a state of vanishing is a recent work by Choreographic Associate Alysa Pires that premiered in 2021 as a commissioned film for the virtual season. Created for Principal Dancer Piotr Stanczyk and set to Bach’s emotional Adagio of the Sonata for Violin No. 1 in G Minor, it explores themes of memory, loss and desire in the context of endings and the complex emotions they provoke.

Cast:
Piotr Stanczyk

The Dreamers Ever Leave You Excerpt
Choreographic Associate Robert Binet created The Dreamers Ever Leave You in 2016 in response to the sublime paintings of Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris. Originally performed at the Art Gallery of Ontario with live piano music by Lubomyr Melnyk, the piece replicates the spiritual energy of Harris’ northern landscapes through the controlled physicality of the human body. Dreamers was adapted for film in 2021, directed by Ben Shirinian.

Cast:
Selene Guerrero-Trujillo, Spencer Hack, Peng-Fei Jiang, Tirion Law, Alexandra MacDonald, Noah Parets, Genevieve Penn Nabity, Jenna Savella, Alexander Skinner, Donald Thom, Isaac Wright, Daina Zolty

Stage Managers:
Jeff Morris
Liliane Stillwell

Crédits

Apollon musagète

Chorégraphie :
George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust

Mise en scène par :
Lindsay Fischer et Christopher Stowell

Musique :
Igor Stravinsky, Apollon Musagète
Grâce à une entente avec Boosey & Hawkes, INC., éditeur et titulaire du droit d’auteur.
The Musicians of The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra
David Briskin, Conductor

Conception de l’éclairage :
Robert Thomson, adapted by Jeff Logue

Première mondiale : Ballets russes Diaghilev, Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, 12 juin 1928
Première du Ballet national du Canada : Toronto, 18 février 1999

The performance of Apollo, a Balanchine® Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced by arrangement with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established and provided by the Trust.

Soul

Chorégraphie :
Jera Wolfe

Musique :
All Human Beings, Performed by Max Richter, Kiki Layne & Mari Samuelsen
Courtesy of Decca Records, under exclusive license from Universal Music Canada Inc.

Conception des costumes :
The National Ballet of Canada Wardrobe Department,
Stacy Dimitropoulos, Wardrobe Supervisor

Conception de l’éclairage :
Jeff Logue

Répétiteur:
Rex Harrington

Film Premiere: The National Ballet of Canada, Tuesday, 27 avril, 2021
Live Performance Premiere: The National Ballet of Canada, Wednesday, 25 août, 2021

Produced and Commissioned by The National Ballet of Canada

Tarantella

Chorégraphie :
George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust

Mise en scène par :
Christopher Stowell

Musique :
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Grâce à une entente avec Boosey & Hawkes, INC., éditeur et titulaire du droit d’auteur.

Piano Soloist and Arranger:
Edward Connell

Conception des costumes :
Karinska

Conception de l’éclairage :
Jeff Logue

Première mondiale : New York City Ballet, New York City, U.S.A., 7 janvier, 1964
Première du Ballet national du Canada : Toronto, Ontario, 29 mars, 2017

The performance of Tarantella, a Balanchine® Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced by arrangement with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established and provided by the Trust.

Crepuscular

Chorégraphie :
Vanesa G. R. Montoya

Musique :
Frédéric Chopin
Prelude in D-flat Major, Op. 28 : No. 15 “Raindrop”,
Nocturne in C# Minor Op. posth. arranged for Solo Violin and Chamber Ensemble by Craig Leon
Nocturne in C Minor Op. 48 No. 1,
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op. 11 : 2 Romance, Larghetto
Andrei Straeliev, Piano
Lynn Kuo, Violin
The Musicians of The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra
David Briskin, Conductor

Conception des costumes :
The National Ballet of Canada Wardrobe Department,
Stacy Dimitropoulos, Wardrobe Supervisor

Conception de l’éclairage :
Jeff Logue

Répétiteur:
Peter Ottmann

Guest Rehearsal Assistant:
Alejandra Perez-Gomez

Première mondiale : The National Ballet of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Wednesday, 25 août, 2021

Produced and Commissioned by The National Ballet of Canada

Trase Pa

Chorégraphie :
Kevin A. Ormsby

Musique :
Traces by David Bontemps
The Musicians of The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra

Conception des costumes :
Michael Mortley & The National Ballet of Canada Wardrobe Department,
Stacy Dimitropoulos, Wardrobe Supervisor

Conception de l’éclairage :
Jeff Logue

Répétiteur:
Rex Harrington

Film Premiere: The National Ballet of Canada, Tuesday, 27 avril, 2021
Live Performance Premiere: The National Ballet of Canada, Wednesday, 25 août, 2021

Bluebird Pas de Deux from The Sleeping Beauty

Réalisé, mis en scène initialement et avec une chorégraphie supplémentaire :
Rudolf Nureyev after Marius Petipa

Mise en scène par :
Karen Kain, C.C., LL.D., D.Litt., O.Ont. and the Artistic Staff of The National Ballet of Canada

Conception des costumes :
Nicholas Georgiadis

Musique :
Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski
The Musicians of The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra
David Briskin, Conductor

Original Lighting Design:
David Hersey, adapted by Jeff Logue

Répétiteur invité :
Kevin Pugh

Guest Rehearsal Assistant:
Piotr Stanczyk

Première mondiale : 22 septembre 1966, Teatro alla Scala Opera House, Milan, Italy.
Première du Ballet national du Canada : 1 septembre 1972, Ottawa.

Bedroom Pas de Deux from Romeo and Juliet

Chorégraphie :
Alexei Ratmansky

Musique :
Sergei Prokofiev
The Musicians of The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra
David Briskin, Conductor

Conception des costumes :
Richard Hudson

Conception de l’éclairage :
Jennifer Tipton, adapted by Jeff Logue

Première mondiale : The National Ballet of Canada, Toronto, 16 novembre, 2011

in a state of vanishing

Chorégraphie :
Alysa Pires

Musique :
Sonata for Violin Solo No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: 1 Adagio, Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Soloist: Lynn Kuo

Conception des costumes :
The National Ballet of Canada Wardrobe Department,
Stacy Dimitropoulos, Wardrobe Supervisor

Conception de l’éclairage :
Jeff Logue

Film Premiere: The National Ballet of Canada, Tuesday, 27 avril, 2021
Live Performance Premiere: The National Ballet of Canada, 26 août, 2021

IN TIME WE TRUST

Chorégraphie :
Juliano Nunes

Musique :
In Time We Trust, Composed & Performed by Kirill Rikhter

Conception de l’éclairage :
adapted by Jeff Logue

Première mondiale : Gala of the Stars, Dortmund Staatstheater, Germany, 6 juillet, 2019.
Première du Ballet national du Canada : Toronto, Ontario, 28 août, 2021

The Dreamers Ever Leave You

Excerpts from the Immersive Ballet Inspired by the Work of Lawren Harris

Concept et chorégraphie :
Robert Binet

Musique originale :
Lubomyr Melnyk

Conception des costumes :
Robyn Clarke

Original Lighting Design:
Simon Rossiter, adapted by Jeff Logue

Guest Rehearsal Assistant:
Stephanie Hutchison

Première mondiale : The National Ballet of Canada, Signy Eaton Gallery at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 31 août, 2016

Originally Co-produced by The National Ballet of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario

Apollon musagète est un cadeau du Comité bénévole, le Ballet national du Canada.

Lead philanthropic support for Soul, Trase Pa and in a state of vanishing is provided by The Walter Carsen New Creations Fund with additional support from The Producers’ Circle.

Lead philanthropic support for Crepuscular is provided by The Producers’ Circle.

Le Cercle des producteurs : Gail & Mark Appel, John et Claudine Bailey, Inger Bartlett & Marshal Stearns, Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney, Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance, The Thor E. and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation, Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan, Kevin Garland & Roger Garland, C.M., Ira Gluskin et Maxine Granovsky Gluskin, The William & Nona Heaslip Foundation, Anna McCowan Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C., Judy Korthals et Peter Irwin, Mona et Harvey Levenstein, Jerry & Joan Lozinski, The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C., Julie Medland, Sandra et Jim Pitblado, C.M., The Harry & Lillian Seymour Family Foundation, Gerald Sheff et Shanitha Kachan et The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation.

La Belle au bois dormant est rendu possible par les contributions généreuses de Margaret et Jim Fleck, C.C., The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation, Sandra Pitblado et Jim Pitblado, C.M., Gretchen Ross et Nancy Pencer et Michael Benjamin.

Lead philanthropic support for Romeo and Juliet is provided by Sandra Pitblado & Jim Pitblado, C.M., with additional generous support from Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan, The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation, an anonymous friend of the National Ballet and Walter Carsen, O.C.

The original presentation of The Dreamers Ever Leave You was co-produced by the Art Gallery of Ontario and The National Ballet of Canada and generously supported by Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan, Kevin Garland, Joan & Jerry Lozinski and The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C.

Choreographic Associate Alysa Pires is supported by Sans Limites.

Sharing the Stage is an initiative of Staging Change which is generously funded by the Metcalf Foundation.