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21/02/2024

This has been a beautiful journey, thank you to everyone who was part of it! Our digital material is now fully archived on Vancouver Ballet Society’s website, you can visit the website or follow 🩰✨

13/12/2023

The Bystander Effect: Ebnflōh’s La Probabilité du Néant By Kristen Lawson

“The Dance Centre’s Global Dance Connection series brought Montreal’s Ebnflōh to Vancouver in early December. The company’s hard-hitting La Probabilité du Néant (The Probability of Nothingness) forces introspection as it explores the human psyche, specifically the bystander effect, through flowing improvised hip hop and an electronic score…”

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Ebnflōh’s hard-hitting La Probabilité du Néant forces introspection as it explores the human psyche, specifically the bystander effect

08/12/2023

Dwell: A home for all bodies By Tessa Perkins Deneault

“Warm lamp light, a cozy rug, and a dining table: symbols of home that anchor Dwell, at Vancouver's Chutzpah Festival in November. As a community collaboration produced by All Bodies Dance Project and the Jewish Community Centre Inclusion Program, it’s fitting that Dwell explores the theme of home. All Bodies, led by artistic director Naomi Brand, offers a home to dancers of all abilities, ages, and backgrounds. Their care for and attention to each other transformed the large gym where the group rehearsed into a safe, welcoming, and inclusive performance.”

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...symbols of home that anchor Dwell, at Vancouver's Chutzpah Festival in November. As a community collaboration produced by All Bodies Dance Project

04/12/2023

City Reports - Montreal: Cautionary tales, and amusing ones By Victor Swoboda

“With more than 40 shows, the 21st annual Festival Quartiers Danses offered a grand way to open a busy fall dance season…”



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30/11/2023

“It is rare to find more than a handful of Canadians in any Canadian dance company…There are, however, at least a few Canadian dance who are currently making successful careers where they grew up.”

Visit our latest feature as Robin J. Miller explores the local careers of:

Gillian Seaward-Boone — Halifax, Nova Scotia
Michel Lavoie — Winnipeg, Manitoba
Desiree Bortolussi — Kelowna, British Columbia
Nicolas Pacholok — Edmonton, Alberta
Maude Sabourin — Montreal, Quebec
Kiana Jung — Vancouver, British Columbia

Gillian Seaward-Boone had the kind of career contemporary dancers dream of… Michel Lavoie's dance career is unfolding exactly the way he hoped it would: from starting at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School

27/11/2023

From performing professionally, to retiring, to becoming a pilot and then pivoting to create a dance company in Jersey. Follow Carolyn Rose Ramsay’s fascinating, pioneering journey by Gerard Davis.

“I knew that Jersey has a prolific amateur dance scene — about 2,000 kids take lessons on the island — so I thought about the possibility of starting up a professional company. I figured I’d do some research and keep taking steps forward until I ran out of road. I haven’t run out of road yet.”

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Ballet d’Jèrri’s debut performances were in April 2023, included pieces from Itzik Galili; West Coast Swing duo Jakub Jakubek and Emeline Rochefeuille.

20/11/2023

City Reports! London: Visit feature to learn more about London’s Black Sabbath, England on Fire and Les Noces By Sanjoy Roy

English National Ballet's Breanna F**d as Chosen One in Andrea Miller's Les Noces | Photo: Laurent Liotardo
English National Ballet's Erina Takahashi, Lorenzo Trosello and Gareth Haw in David Dawson's Four Last Songs | Photo: Laurent Liotardo
Birmingham Royal Ballet's Céline Gittens and Tyrone Singleton in Black Sabbath: The Ballet | Photo: Johan Persson
BalletBoyz in England on Fire | Photo: Thomas Bradshaw
Birmingham Royal Ballet's Riku Ito in Black Sabbath: The Ballet | Photo: Johan Persson

18/11/2023

City Reports! London: Visit feature below to learn more about London’s Black Sabbath, England on Fire and Les Noces By Sanjoy Roy

By Sanjoy Roy Long overshadowed by her famous brother, Bronislava Nijinska has recently been “rediscovered,” with a landmark biography published last year, several revivals of her work, and new works made in her honour — such as a new take on Les Noces by American choreographer Andrea Miller, ...

17/11/2023

National Ballet of Canada:

“Among its fall offerings at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto’s National Ballet of Canada includes two dramatic ballets inspired by 19th-century literary works…”

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Tatiana, heroine of Alexander Pushkin’s novel Eugene Onegin, is rebuffed…The anti-heroine of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary is in a different class

12/11/2023

Swan Song: Ultimately, it’s a celebration By Philip Szporer

“Chelsea McMullan, the Toronto-based filmmaker, knows how to grab an audience’s attention. McMullan’s documentary series, Swan Song, on CBC-TV and CBC-Gem from November 22, 2023, starts out as a warm but predictable ode to Karen Kain’s career as she prepares to retire from her position as the National Ballet of Canada’s artistic director. As her final act, Kain is directing a new version of Swan Lake…”

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Chelsea McMullan, the Toronto-based filmmaker, knows how to grab an audience’s attention. Her documentary series, Swan Song, on CBC-TV and CBC-Gem

12/11/2023

Dance Works: Stories by workers who keep the city running By Kristen Lawson

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Author Allison Orr, founder and artistic director of Forklift Danceworks in Austin, Texas, details her career creating dances with working class people

04/11/2023

Ballet BC: Starting the season on a high note By Kaija Pepper

“With a masterwork by William Forsythe to open with, and a rousing finale to Ravel’s suspenseful Boléro by an up-and-comer, Ballet BC’s season started on a high note. Opening night on November 2 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre gave us three works by three very different choreographers: William Forsythe’s Enemy in the Figure, Shahar Binyamini’s BOLERO X, and Stephen Shropshire’s Little Star…”

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