National Ballet of Canada 2014-15 season

2014/15 Season Announced                                              #1 Canadian Premiere of The Tempest by Alexei Ratmansky World Premiere by Principal Dancer Guillaume Côté Tours to Los Angeles and Ottawa Future Projects: The Winter’s Tale and Le Petit Prince Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto Fall Season Manon November 8 – 16, 2014 Nijinsky November 22 – 30, 2014 Holiday Season The Nutcracker December 13, 2014 – January 3, 2015 Winter Season  ... black night's bright day ... & Chroma March 4 – 8, 2015 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland March 14 – 29, 2015 The Eleventh International Competition for The Erik Bruhn Prize March 24, 2015 Summer Season Being and Nothingness† & The Tempest* May 30 – June 7, 2015 The Sleeping Beauty June 10 – 14, 2015 Gala June 17, 2015  Touring Romeo and Juliet July 10 – 13, 2014, The Music Center, Los Angeles Alice's Adventures in Wonderland April 9 – 12, 2015, Canada’s National Arts Centre, Ottawa † World Premiere * Company Premiere                                                            The National Ballet of Canada will return to The Music Center in Los Angeles with Romeo and Juliet by Alexei Ratmansky, July 10 – 13, 2014. This is the National Ballet’s second engagement at the prestigious Music Center. The company first toured to The Music Center in 2012 with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The National Ballet will tour the acclaimed production of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for an expanded six performance run to Canada’s National Arts Centre in Ottawa April 9 – 12, 2015. The Summer Season features Being and Nothingness by Guillaume Côté, a four-part reflection in dance set to music by Philip Glass, May 30 – June 7, 2015. Being and Nothingness (Part 1) was presented as part of Innovation in 2013 and praised by audiences and critics alike. It is presented with the Canadian premiere of The Tempest by Alexei Ratmansky, an elegant and beautifully condensed evocation of the Shakespeare play, set to music by Sibelius and sets and costumes by Santo Loquasto. The Tempest is a co-production of the National Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Future Projects The company is part of and developing several future projects for upcoming seasons. The Winter’s Tale, a new full-length ballet by the same creative team behind Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, composer Joby Talbot, designer Bob Crowley and lighting designer Natasha Katz, will make its Canadian premiere in the 2015/16 season. The Winter’s Tale is the company’s second co-production with The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, London and will premiere in London on April 10, 2014. A new full-length adaptation of the well-known novella Le Petit Prince by ‎Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is currently in development. The first workshop in July 2013 brought together the creative team of choreographer Guillaume Côté, composer Kevin Lau, librettist Adam Gopnik, designer Michael Levine and multi-media director Ben Shrinian. A second workshop is scheduled this spring. Le Petit Prince will make its world premiere in the 2015/16 season. If you love ballet, please check out my season of outstanding ballet trips by clicking here. GET MORE BALLET OUT OF LIFE WITH TOURS EN L'AIR Use the buttons below to share this post on facebook, twitter, by email, or other social media. If you sign up in February to have my ballet updates delivered directly to your inbox, you will be entered in a draw to win a DVD of La Sylphide. More details: click here.