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Fools’ Paradise, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. Photo: Erin Baiano
A WO R L D O F D A N C E I N O T TAWA
C AT H Y L E V Y , D A N C E P R O D U C E R
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In a changing and moving world, artists remain the
purveyors of strong ideas, emotions and explorations;
they both gauge and reflect the multi-faceted
environment in which we live and grow.This season
of Dance celebrates both the new tendencies in
contemporary dance and ballet as well as
honouring several long-standing, talented artists
who continue to shape our milieu today.The
2009-2010 season is the 40th anniversary of
DANCE SERIES
The National Arts Centre’s Dance season is made up of performances by 15 Canadian and
international companies, offering dance lovers an extraordinary selection of classical ballet
and contemporary dance from around the world. It truly is A World of Dance in Ottawa!
To help you decide which performances you’d like to attend, we’ve grouped them into
four distinct Dance Series – and of course subscribers can include as many Series or add-on
performances as they like.
the National Arts Centre, home to dance artists
since its opening night on June 2, 1969. Many
Canadian choreographers and dancers call the
NAC their “home away from home” and, increasingly,
international companies are ensuring their new works
are consistently seen on our stages. In as many ways
as dance can inspire and provoke, we continue
to support and present a multitude of voices from
choreographers around the world.
The Ballet Series features two gorgeous full-length
story ballets, one evening of outstanding mixed
repertoire – Canadian premiere of Boston Ballet.
The renowned National Arts Centre Orchestra
plays at each performance in Southam Hall.
As you turn these pages, you’ll read about fresh
voices, such as Hofesh Shechter and Rachid
Ouramdane; enduring Canadian choreographers
Christopher House (Toronto Dance Theatre) and
Margie Gillis; familiar artists in new configurations,
Series A highlights the spectacle and theatricality
of four internationally renowned companies on the
dramatic Southam Hall stage.
such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with the monks of
the Shaolin Temple and Compañia Nacional de Danza
in the full-evening BACH: MULTIPLICITY; and a host
of fascinating British choreographers, including the
ever-profound Lloyd Newson (DV8 Physical Theatre)
and the up-and-coming Charlotte Vincent of
Vincent Dance Theatre.The 2009-2010 season
is also the 100th anniversary of Serge Diaghilev’s
Les Ballets Russes, and the enormous influence
of that period of contemporary ballet will be
represented through the Canadian premiere of both
Series B is a 5-company lineup of exciting
contemporary dance in the Theatre.
Boston Ballet, performing period and contemporary
work, and Balanchine-inspired Christopher Wheeldon’s
new troupe, Morphoses.With additional offerings
from Australia, Cuba, and Japan, the world of Dance
continues to enlighten and enliven Ottawa.
Many thanks to you, our public, for your continued
interest and engagement in this most beautiful of
Series C brings three solo and small group
contemporary dance pieces into the intimacy
of the Studio.
art forms.
Cathy Levy
DANCE PRODUCER
Would you prefer a little of each? You can create your
own Designer Series – simply pick a minimum of four
shows and call our subscription office.
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HOFESH SHECHTER
COMPANY
SEP.
a
Dis/(sol/ve)r
Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Series B
Uprising and In Your Rooms
Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Series B
29-30
TORONTO DANCE THEATRE
NOV.
b
THE NATIONAL BALLET
OF CANADA
The Sleeping Beauty
Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
Ballet Series
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SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI/
MONKS FROM THE
SHAOLIN TEMPLE
5-7
Sutra
Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
Series A
11-12
DV 8 PHYSICAL THEATRE
Studio 8 p.m.
Series C
TANJA LIEDTKE’S construct
19-21
c
To Be Straight with You
Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Series B
26-27
d
Nutcracker
Southam Hall, 7 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday matinees
1:30 p.m.
2-6
Special Presentation
ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET
DEC.
Mixed repertoire
Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
Ballet Series
BOSTON BALLET
JAN.
e
28-30
MORPHOSES/
THE WHEELDON COMPANY
FEB.
f
THREAD
Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Series B
Mixed repertoire
Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
Series A
2
MARGIE GILLIS
MAR.
g
LIZT ALFONSO DANCE
CUBA
9
h
Moulin Rouge - The Ballet
(Working Title)
Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
Ballet Series
ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET
APR.
Elementos
Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
Series A
Broken Chords
Studio 8 p.m.
Series C
13
18-20
SABURO TESHIGAWARA/
KARAS
VINCENT DANCE THEATRE
15-17
Loin...(Far...)
Studio 8 p.m.
Series C
RACHID OURAMDANE
22-24
Miroku
Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Series B
29-30
COMPAÑIA NACIONAL
DE DANZA
MAY
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BACH: MULTIPLICITY,
Forms of Silence and Emptiness
Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
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a. In Your Rooms, Hofesh Shechter Company. Photo: Ben Rudick. b. Sutra, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Photo: Hugo Glendinning. c. Dis/(sol/ve)r, Toronto Dance Theatre. Photo: David Hou. d. To Be Straight with You,
DV8 Physical Theatre. Photo: Matt Nettheim. e. Ballo Della Regina, Boston Ballet. Photo: Gene Schiavone. f. Fools’ Paradise, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. Photo: Erin Baiano. g. Elementos, Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba.
Photo: Pedro Abascal. h. THREAD, Margie Gillis. Photo: Cylla von Tiedemann. i. Serena Sanford, Moulin Rouge - The Ballet (Working Title), Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Photo: Nardella Photography Inc. j. BACH: MULTIPLICITY,
Compañia Nacional de Danza. Photo: Jong Duk. k. Canada Dance Festival, Cabane. Photo: Paul-André Fortier by Robert Etcheverry. l. Miroku, Saburo Teshigawara/KARAS. Photo: Bengt Wanselius.
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the UK 2009-2010: richness
and diversity in DANCE
by Donald Hutera
History tends to view the 1960s and ‘70s as golden eras in dance, signaled by the emergence of a brat pack of young, mainly American post-modern
upstarts in the first decade and the so-called ‘ballet boom’ that burst round the globe in the next. It may be premature to regard the current crop
of British-based dance-makers as leaders of a new gilded age. What is undeniable, however, is the incredible richness and diversity of the UK scene.
During the first half of the 20th century, British dance was rooted in ballet.The field only began to widen in the 1960s as the seeds of modernism
began to flourish.
TODAY THERE IS A WEALTH OF BOUNDARY-BUSTING, WORLD-CLASS
TALENT SPREAD RIGHT ACROSS THE GENRES AND THE GENERATIONS.
If proof is needed, consider the string of Broadway-friendly productions by the theatrically savvy Matthew Bourne. Or, on a less narrative note, how
about the magnetic coupling of balletic grace and agile muscularity embedded in Russell Maliphant’s work? And what of Wayne McGregor, the resident
choreographer at the Royal Ballet? His wide-ranging interests in science, the arts, and technology all help drive him to a constant and questioning
reinvention of what the human body can do. Nor should we overlook the stylish, envelope-pushing ‘confusion of forms’ regularly offered up by Akram
Khan, which springs from his dual training in classical Indian and contemporary dance.
Khan and Maliphant have both previously appeared at the National Arts Centre. Alongside their names can now be added those of Lloyd Newson,
Hofesh Shechter, Charlotte Vincent and Christopher Wheeldon. Each is scheduled to present their work in the 2009-2010 season.
In Your Rooms: Hofesh Shechter Company. Photo: Dee Conway
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Let’s start with Christopher Wheeldon.Throughout the 1990s the cry of ‘Where next for
ballet?’ grew increasingly desperate.The deaths of Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan
in Britain, and George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins in America, left a gaping hole waiting
to be filled by a choreographer who could respect ballet’s traditions but also carry them
forward into new territory. Wheeldon was the one. He began choreographing as a young
dancer at the Royal Ballet, but his career really took off after New York City Ballet took him
up. Still in his mid-thirties, he now ranks as one of the most acclaimed and, consequently,
in-demand choreographers on the planet. Launched in London in 2007, Morphoses/The
Wheeldon Company claims to be the first transatlantic ballet troupe with a base on both
sides of the Atlantic. As with all of Wheeldon’s work, the dances he fashions for his company
combine the leggy angularity, grandeur and speed of American ballet with the limpid lyricism
and emotional depth of its UK counterparts. Music is his single biggest inspiration, with
a catalogue of sources ranging from Mendelssohn, Martinu and Saint-Saëns to Gershwin,
Ligeti and Glass. He is also unstinting in his praise of the dancers with whom he collaborates:
“You have to capture something of their personalities and their spirit. It’s the only way you
can create something truly poetic.”
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Hofesh Shechter is probably British dance’s biggest recent success story. His rapid rise began with Cult, a striking sextet that nearly won the first Place
Prize competition in 2004.This bold, visceral piece kicked open the door to further opportunities for him to develop a signature style that is simultaneously
gestural and full-bodied, and marked by a swift stealth. Audiences at the NAC can see the double bill that has become the Israeli-born Shechter’s
international calling card. Uprising is an explosive all-male septet that filters quasi-folk dance steps into the law of the jungle, while In Your Rooms is a
more directly urban, gender-balanced examination of what its maker cites as “all those hidden emotions we try to keep away from the public, or from
being brought outdoors.” As a bonus, both ensemble pieces feature layers of driven percussive music composed by Shechter himself.
Charlotte Vincent has been creating a steady stream of dance-theatre productions since forming her eponymous company in 1994. She isn’t the first
artist to raid her own life for creative inspiration, nor will she be the last. Broken Chords, one of the most fêted works by this Sheffield-based choreographer
and director, was conceived and crafted from the terrible wounds of Vincent’s own messy separation and divorce. Featuring live music, spoken text, and
galvanising performances from an eight-strong international cast, the result is a brave, intelligent and playful dark comedy that slips easily between laughter
and pain, truth and artifice, recovery and redemption.
To Be Straight with You, DV8 Physical Theatre. Photo: Matt Nettheim
While Vincent seems intent on triggering our responses to a personal experience of loss,
Lloyd Newson is asking us to aim our attention at larger targets. Presented under the
auspices of DV8 Physical Theatre, To Be Straight with You is 75 minutes of verbatim theatre
on the complex topics of intolerance, religion, and homosexuality. Using 85 real-life
interviews as raw source material, Newson has assembled a stirring, possibly angering and
sometimes saddening collage of views and stories from a small army of people embodied
by nine multi-talented performers.The perspective is, by necessity, international. Spoken and
pre-recorded text, dance, and digital animation are used brilliantly to amplify the show’s
points. As a gay man, and DV8’s founding choreographer and director, Newson has never
been shy of tackling taboo subjects. “So much dance and theatre is often middle-class
rambling,” he says. “It shouldn’t be just about a dancer’s ability to come up with extra-nice
phrasing, or my ability to construct nice movement.To me that’s secondary. I want what
DV8 does to be urgent, to be about this time and to engage with important issues.”
Something similar could be said about the work of any of these artists. Whether the issues they tackle are social or aesthetic, their dedication, sensitivity
and smarts bode well for both the present state and the future of British dance.
Donald Hutera writes regularly about dance and live performance for The Times of London, Dance Europe and many other publications and websites.
NAC Dance wishes to thank the British Council for its assistance with our presentations
of Hofesh Shechter Company, DV8 Physical Theatre and Vincent Dance Theatre. Congratulations
to the British Council on its 75th anniversary for its continued excellence in strengthening
the bridge between UK artists and the world.
Broken Chords,Vincent Dance Theatre. Photo: Hugo Glendinning
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THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
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CANADA
Guillaume Côte & Greta Hodgkinson with Artists of the Ballet,
Sleeping Beauty. Photo: Bruce Zinger
Thursday November 5 - Saturday November 7, 2009, Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
Featuring the National Arts Centre Orchestra
One of the most glorious expressions of 19th-century European classicism, The Sleeping Beauty
is captivating and supremely entertaining, a seamless blend of choreographic and musical invention
(score by Tchaikovsky), stagecraft on a grand scale, and dancing of breathtaking virtuosity. It is also
classical ballet at its most spectacular! Rudolf Nureyev’s sumptuous 1972 production – restaged
by Artistic Director Karen Kain in 2006 – features magnificent sets and 340 gorgeous costumes,
making it the most stunningly beautiful production in company history.
“ … a splendidly refurbished version of the Russian classic [opened] to tumultuous applause… the production
has grandeur and sweep… choreographic magnificence. Nureyev’s version is acknowledged as one of the
finest anywhere… and Kain infused the dancing with vitality and style. The Sleeping Beauty
shimmers and sparkles as never before.”
MICHAEL CRABB, THE NATIONAL POST, NOVEMBER 14, 2006
BOSTON BALLET – USA
BALLO DELLA REGINA, THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN,
LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE, EIN VON VIEL, BRAKE THE EYES
Thursday January 28 - Saturday January 30, 2010, Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
Featuring the National Arts Centre Orchestra
CANADIAN PREMIERE
“The dancing was of extraordinary calibre. Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen has worked miracles with
the company, and done so in a way that seems to satisfy his audiences… and the dancers as well.”
Photo: Gene Schiavone
Making a long-awaited NAC debut, Boston Ballet is famous for passion in performance and the sheer
glory of great dancing. Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen’s vision encompasses timeless classics and
innovative creations, choreography of the highest calibre, and great variety in repertoire – making
Boston Ballet one of the top companies in the world.This dazzling program includes works by
George Balanchine, resident choreographer Jorma Elo, Canadian Sabrina Matthews, and two
landmark works by Vaslav Nijinsky and Michel Fokine, originally created for Diaghilev’s
famed Ballets Russes, celebrating its centenary in 2009.
THEODORE BALE, DANCE INTERNATIONAL
ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET – CANADA Celebrating their 70th anniversary!
MOULIN ROUGE – THE BALLET
( WORKING
TITLE )
Serena Sanford, Moulin Rouge, Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
Photo: Nardella Photography
Thursday April 15 - Saturday April 17, 2010, Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
Featuring the National Arts Centre Orchestra
A new production choreographed by Jorden Morris (Peter Pan)! Wild, wicked,
turn-of-the-century Paris throbs with ambition and desire. Lurid and licentious, lit only
by gaslight, the city encompasses art both elevated and abused, pomp and excess,
poverty and hardship. Total personal freedom breeds recklessness and
addiction – and Matthew and Sandrine want it all. Aflame
with the hearts of lovers and the souls of poets, they
tempt Fate as they seek love and destiny in the
world’s most infamous cabaret: the Moulin Rouge.
[Peter Pan] “There is a lot to crow about… spirited scenes…
Jorden Morris has all the goods to become a great ballet
storyteller… the choreographer succeeds mightily…”
PAULA CITRON, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, DECEMBER 23, 2006
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SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI/ANTONY GORMLEY/SZYMON BRZÓSKA/
WITH MONKS FROM THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE – BELGIUM/UK/CHINA
SUTRA
A Sadler’s Wells Production (London)
Wednesday November 11 - Thursday November 12, 2009, Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
Photo: Hugo Glendinning
In the daring and dramatic Sutra, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – the Flemish-Moroccan dance phenomenon in worldwide
demand – collaborates with designer Antony Gormley and composer Szymon Brzóska (whose score is played live).
Larbi performs here with 17 Buddhist warrior monks from China’s Shaolin Temple. Agile experts at martial arts, the
monks display certainty and control, strength and spirituality – and maniacally dangerous and beautiful physical moves.
Sutra seamlessly combines faith and philosophy, Kung Fu, music, design, Eastern ritual and Western contemporary dance
into a dynamic and symbolic display of grace and power.
“Sutra… exceeds even our highest expectations… grace, strength and bravery are awesome,
the speed and ferocity of their punches, kicks, back flips and flying jumps astounding.”
DEBRA CRAIN, THE TIMES (LONDON), MAY 30, 2008
MORPHOSES/THE WHEELDON COMPANY
MIXED REPERTOIRE
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USA
Tuesday February 2, 2010, Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
CANADIAN PREMIERE
Photo: Erin Baiano
Today’s most internationally in-demand ballet choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon is a charismatic and exciting
talent. He danced with London’s Royal Ballet and New York City Ballet and has created dozens of mesmerizing works.
In 2007, he and Lourdes Lopez co-founded Morphoses to restore ballet as a force of innovation – collaborating with
choreographers, dancers, visual artists, designers, and composers to infuse ballet with new vitality, energy, and vision.
This evening of mixed repertoire includes two of Wheeldon’s new works, choreography by William Forsythe, and
live music performed by a NACO ensemble.
“Morphoses… is a dream ballet troupe. It uses leading American and European dancers… it commissions several
premieres a year and includes work by other star choreographers dead and alive… dream conditions.The quality of
this dream depends on the quality of its choreography… each piece had the felicitous touches that prove [Wheeldon]
a dance maker of rare caliber. Mr. Wheeldon [is] greatly gifted.”
ALASTAIR MACAULAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES, AUGUST 11, 2008
Photo: Pedro Abascal
LIZT ALFONSO DANCE CUBA – CUBA
ELEMENTOS
Saturday March 13, 2010, Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
CANADIAN PREMIERE
Returning to the NAC by popular demand after two sizzling sold-out performances in 2008, award-winning
choreographer Lizt Alfonso shows why her flamboyantly entertaining all-female extravaganzas are blockbuster
hits worldwide. In Elementos (Elements), Earth, Air, Fire, and Water take on colourful human form – and unite to
breathe life into mankind.Vibrant, elegant, and vividly theatrical, Elementos displays the company’s
uniquely fiery fusion of ballet, flamenco, and Afro-Cuban dance. Unstoppable force meets
unparalleled energy – Cuban style!
“The overall spirit was celebratory, and most of the choreography… adroitly blended several styles… the dancers
moved with great strength through choreographic phrases that were rhythmically strong and precisely
measured… the women crossed the stage together with amazing unanimity. Each work dazzled on its own.”
JACK ANDERSON, THE NEW YORK TIMES, FEBRUARY 4, 2003
COMPAÑIA NACIONAL DE DANZA – SPAIN
BACH: MULTIPLICITY, FORMS OF SILENCE AND EMPTINESS
Tuesday May 11, 2010, Southam Hall, 8 p.m.
Photo: Jong Duk
This exuberantly beautiful two-part work by Artistic Director Nacho Duato is inspired by genius:
the music of Johan Sebastian Bach. Set to a glorious musical collage, Duato’s movement is sensual, witty,
and imaginative – its raw vitality brought to sublime life by 20 impeccable dancers.The stunning stage pictures
unite dramatic lighting with continuously changing costumes – from frock coats and Baroque ballgowns to
minimalist leotards. Part II is mystical, introspective, and deeply spiritual, reflecting both artists’ fascination
with humanity, transience, and mortality.
“Irresistible. … one of the best works by Duato. Based on the pure music of J.S. Bach, he creates a choreography
that is pure dance. More than twenty performers brought a ravishing performance to life on stage.”
KARMELO ERREKATXO, EL CORREO (BILBAO), DECEMBER 13, 2004
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HOFESH SHECHTER COMPANY – UK
UPRISING, IN YOUR ROOMS
Tuesday September 29 - Wednesday September 30, 2009,Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
CANADIAN PREMIERE
Photo: Ben Rudick
Hofesh Shechter is on fire – keeping audiences buzzing and reviewers reaching for superlatives.
Uprising and In Your Rooms reveal why: Israeli-born, UK-based Shechter (a former rock drummer)
is the archenemy of stillness. Provocative, political, and arrestingly powerful, his highly charged
works explode with gritty physicality. With a verve approaching sheer ecstacy, his dozen dancers
bombard the stage with furious energy and precision.They are of the moment, at the edge
of hipness, yet serious and substantive, crackling with originality and ambition.
Shechter also composes the music for his works, which is played live.
“In two of the year's most exciting shows, Hofesh Shechter and his dancers rage thrillingly
against the void… he has you on the edge of your seat, dry-mouthed, from start to finish.”
LUKE JENNINGS, THE OBSERVER (LONDON), OCTOBER 7, 2007
TORONTO DANCE THEATRE
DIS/(SOL/VE)R
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CANADA
Tuesday November 3, 2009,Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
NAC co-production
Dissolving lovers, the moment of joy, the comfort of cruelty, rising and falling. The wave collapses, I see you now.
CHRISTOPHER HOUSE
Photo: David Hou
Toronto Dance Theatre, guided by master choreographer Christopher House, is acclaimed for boldly
intelligent contemporary dance. Playful, poignant, passionate, featuring nine extraordinary dancers, Dis/(sol/ve)r
is a multilayered new creation which examines the ephemeral nature of joy – rollicking, ephemeral cycles
of passion are shaded by cruel narcissism and needy longing. Humans can be both vulnerable and sinister.
Spiralling bodies, dissolving lovers, unexpected ambushes, and garlands of linked dancers perform this
provocative “mystery play” set to an original electronic score by Phil Strong.
CHRISTOPHER HOUSE IS AN NAC ASSOCIATE DANCE ARTIST
“Never underestimate Christopher House…a master dancemaker… fascinating. Raw inner nakedness is revealed…
[embodying] desire, challenge, longing, fear, and fragility.There are startling choreographic encounters in the piece.
Dis/(sol/ve)r is satisfying, intelligent dance performed by superb dancers.”
PAULA CITRON, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, NOVEMBER 20, 2008
DV8 PHYSICAL THEATRE – UK
TO BE STRAIGHT WITH YOU
Thursday November 26 - Friday November 27, 2009,Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
CANADIAN PREMIERE
MATURE SUBJECT MATTER – SUITABLE FOR AGES 16 +
Nominated for a 2009 Laurence Olivier Award as ‘Best New Dance Production’ (UK)
‘The persecution of people because of their sexual orientation is every bit as unjust as that crime
against humanity, apartheid. We must all be allowed to love with honour.’
Photo: Matt Nettheim
Artistic Director Lloyd Newson leads a multi-ethnic cast in a poetic but unflinching exploration
of tolerance, intolerance, religion, and sexuality. Based on hundreds of hours of audio interviews,
To Be Straight with You is hard-hitting and passionate, incorporating dance, text, documentary, animation,
and film. Performances are intense, but anger and emotion are leavened with humanity, compassion,
and humour. Staged with vivid imagination, daring, and technological skill, the nine exceptional
performers dance with a beauty that is wildly at odds with the cruelty of which they speak.
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU
“DV8 Physical Theatre's stunning new show can fairly be described as a short, sharp shock. Measured
and extensively researched, it’s the most informative 75 minutes I have spent in a theatre
for a long time, yet also the most magical. Lloyd Newson is a theatrical genius.”
TERRY GRIMLEY, THE BIRMINGHAM POST, MAY 23, 2008
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MARGIE GILLIS – CANADA
THREAD
Tuesday March 9, 2010,Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
EXCLUSIVE CANADIAN ENGAGEMENT
“Gillis has always managed to make every movement evoke lush, full images. Her dancing continues
to be articulate and elaborate. No gesture is wasted. In a dance world that sometimes
seems to do nothing but seethe, Gillis’s vision remains most welcome.”
JENNY GREEN, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN, JUNE 4, 2006
Photo: Michael Slobodian
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Celebrating 36 years as a Canadian modern dance icon, Margie Gillis is at the pinnacle of her artistic
powers. Her newest work, THREAD, looks at aging and our essential being, examining the skeins we
must unsnarl before we can finally accept, let go, and discover who we really are. As Gillis confronts the
omnipresence of our life-threads, she strings dances along a thread of her own, like so many pearls on
a necklace. Gillis dares to explore in dance the complex dimensions of this powerful textile metaphor.
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SABURO TESHIGAWARA/KARAS
MIROKU
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JAPAN
Thursday April 29 - Friday April 30, 2010,Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
EXCLUSIVE CANADIAN ENGAGEMENT
Photo: Bangt Wanselius
Internationally-acclaimed dance artist Saburo Teshigawara erases the body and reaches for
the dance of the soul. Fusing the clarity and complexity of dance, he searches for the perfect fusion
of elements – for a new form of beauty. In Miroku, his stunning new solo, he explores space and light,
extremity and velocity, creating an eternity beyond time, where everything harmonizes with delicate,
yet powerful, tension. Unnaturally fluid, melting movement becomes edgy, vibrating…then blissfully still.
Choreography and set, lighting, and costume design all by Saburo Teshigawara.
“The last moment was a moment where the dancer became one with the universe.
He approached the ultimate form of dance, and created a magnificent epic of the human spirit.”
KUMIKO MURAYAMA, THE ASAHI, DECEMBER 25, 2007
Dis/(sol/ve)r,Toronto Dance Theatre. Photo: David Hou
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Broken Chords,Vincent Dance Theatre. Photo: Hugo Glendinning
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TANJA LIEDTKE’S
CONSTRUCT –
AUSTRALIA
Thursday November 19 - Saturday November 21, 2009, Studio, 8 p.m.
Choreographer Tanja Liedtke had an endless capacity for movement invention, a great sense of
theatre, and the ability to paint fine shades of emotional tone. construct, her final work, is a noun,
a verb, and a metaphor. It’s also a sharp, fresh, and wickedly funny look at mankind’s desire
to build. With audacity and originality, three dancers perform Liedtke’s speedy and athletic
choreography as she explores the construction, comfort – and inevitable collapse – of houses,
emotional relationships, lives, futures – and dreams.
ALLEN ROBERTSON, THE TIMES (LONDON), MAY 18, 2007
RACHID OURAMDANE
LOIN...(FAR...)
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Photo: Chris Herzfeld
“Lasting just over an hour, construct is a small-scale marvel… demon entertainers fill this candid,
complex show with the kind of clever movement that has the audience laughing out loud
and frequently bursting into spontaneous applause.”
FRANCE
Thursday March 18 - Saturday March 20, 2010, Studio 8 p.m.
Rachid Ouramdane takes the audience on a riveting journey in this exhilarating work of multimedia theatre.
Far is a highly personal, poetic – and psychologically acute – solo about emotion, imagination, and roots.
Song, audio, and video enhance the recreation of the disturbing history of Ouramdane – the French-born son
of Algerian parents – and his family.The mood ranges from quiet and concentrated to frenetic and physical,
as the dancer tells his story, tension builds, and the fluid choreography echoes the shifting possibilities inherent
in identity and nationality.
“… personal, poetic, … political, sociological and psychological, Far is an engrossing work of art.”
Photo: EM
ALASTAIR MACAULAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES, MAY 10, 2008
VINCENT DANCE THEATRE – UK
BROKEN CHORDS
Thursday April 22 - Saturday April 24, 2010, Studio 8 p.m.
CANADIAN PREMIERE
“ … one of the most exciting of all the new British physical theater troupes. Broken Chords
is theatrically wrenching and hilarious, choreographically intense, musically compelling.”
JOHN ROCKWELL, THE NEW YORK TIMES, SEPTEMBER 10, 2006
Photo: Hugo Glendinning
Performed by one of the UK’s most innovative dance/physical theatre companies, the searingly emotional
Broken Chords is a visually striking, unexpectedly powerful portrait of breaking up and breaking down.
Bracingly honest, full of dark humour, sublime dancing, and playful theatricality, Broken Chords shifts
effortlessly between the bleakly comic and the beautifully tragic, charting the director’s personal life
with harrowing yet hysterical results. Set among rows of chairs under a huge chandelier, the
piece is performed to an original soundtrack with live violin and cello.
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Jennifer Weisman and Filbert
Nutcracker, Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Photo: David Cooper
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Wednesday December 2 – Sunday December 6, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Saturday December 5 – Sunday December 6, 2009 at 1:30 p.m.
Southam Hall
Featuring the National Arts Centre Orchestra
PLEASE NOTE EARLY CURTAIN TIMES!
This gorgeous version of the classic tale is a child’s Christmas
fantasy. Nutcracker features Filbert the dancing bear, cavorting
mice, a sugar-plum fairy, and a magically growing Christmas
tree – all wrapped in a turn-of-the-century Canadian setting.
Featuring choreography by Nina Menon and Galina Yordanova,
scenery by Brian Perchaluk, 175 original costumes by Paul Daigle,
Tchaikovsky’s timeless music, and dozens of local children.
Nutcracker is a visual and musical spectacle, a holiday confection
which preserves the best of the Russian tradition and spices it
up with uniquely Canadian ingredients.
“Much of the charm of the ballet … is in the willingness of choreographers
Nina Menon and Galina Yordanova to let it be as brightly decorated as a
Christmas tree and as lively as your family’s biggest holiday bash.”
GARTH A. BUCHHOLZ, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, 2003
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THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE IS COMMITTED TO ENRICHING THE LIVES OF YOUNG
PEOPLE THROUGH THE PERFORMING ARTS. SHARE THE INSPIRATION OF DANCE WITH
THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE:
If you are a professional, pre-professional dance artist, dance
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30.This fall, visit www.liverush.ca and discover Live Rush, version 2.0!
DANCERS
Evening in the fall.Then, bring your classes to a school matinee of Nutcracker
by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, or a contemporary dance matinee (to be announced).
Contact Andrée Larose for tickets at [email protected] or 613.947.7000
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PARENTS Check the Dance Department’s age recommendations for
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NEW! – LIVE RUSH 2.0 More options, same great deal! To celebrate
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NAC Dance is grateful for the support of its generous donors in
making this artistic season possible.
2010 canada dance festival
Cabane. Photo: Paul-André Fortier
by Robert Etcheverry
A CO-PRODUCTION OF THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE
June 5-12, 2010
Complete programming will be announced
in spring 2010
DANCE – BEAUTY IN THE HERE AND NOW!
From June 5 to 12, 2010, the Canada Dance Festival
offers its 12th celebration of contemporary
Canadian dance.
You will experience dance that provokes and
entertains you, dance that is intimate, dance that
expresses the ecstasy of freedom. It is in the dancing
that we find meaning in dance. Dancing has no
history; it is always present in the here and now.
Dancing is one of the most profound ways that
people use to express their feelings.
The CDF and the NAC are delighted to present two
co-productions during the Festival: S by José Navas
and Cabane by Paul-André Fortier.
Brian Webb, Artistic Director
“The Canada Dance Festival… an embarrassment
of riches.”
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