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Tours en l'air organizes ballet-themed escorted holidays to see the best companies perform great ballets in beautiful places. You can join a trip from anywhere. A highly knowledgeable balletomane who has enjoyed 100s of performances in over 20 cities around the world,I speak English, French, and German, and am a Travel Industry Council of Ontario certified Travel Counsellor. I also teach ballet appreciation courses.
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Friday, May 29, 2020
Monday, May 18, 2020
Fantastic Dance Week streaming from Lincoln Center
Some of the broadcasts have not been seen in decades, including landmark New York City Ballet works by George Balanchine, with some dancers in the roles that Balanchine created for them. Dance Week will include special themed Pop-Up Classrooms, with a full schedule to be announced soon.
Schedule
Saturday, May 30 at 2:00pm ET
CARMEN.maquia and Club Havana (2015)
Live from Lincoln Center Ballet Hispánico
Ballet Hispánico will “whisk us away to contemporary dance’s hottest spot“ (Washington Post) in this showcase of Latin-inspired contemporary dance at its best.
Saturday, May 30 at 8:00pm ET
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1986)
Live from Lincoln Center New York City Ballet
George Balanchine’s enchanting ballet
based on Shakespeare’s comedy comes to magical life. Former NYCB principals Maria Calegari and Ib Anderson star as Titania and Oberon, with Jean-Pierre Frolich as Puck.
Sunday, May 31 at 8:00pm ET
The evening includes Natalia Makarova and Fernando Bujones in the Act III pas de deux from Don Quixote; Michel Fokine's Les Sylphides, starring Rebecca Wright, Marianna Tcherkassky and Ivan Nagy; Fokine's Firebird; and Balanchine's glorious Theme and Variations, led by Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Monday, June 1 at 7:00pm ET
Outstanding highlights of SAB’s annual
Workshop Performances, with commentary from the school’s leaders,
faculty, and distinguished alumni Justin Peck and Maria Kowroski. The program will include Balanchine's Scotch Symphony from 2017, Justin Peck's In Creases and Jerome Robbins' Circus Polka from 2018, and Balanchine's Agon pas de deux from 2019.
Tuesday, June 2 at 8:00pm ET
George Balanchine’s and Alexandra
Danilova’s comic ballet, with music by Léo Delibes, centers on a
mechanical girl with whom the hero falls in love.
Patricia McBride, Helgi Tomasson and Shaun O'Brien star.
Patricia McBride, Helgi Tomasson and Shaun O'Brien star.
Wednesday, June 3 at 8:00pm ET
A month after the great George
Balanchine passed away, New York City Ballet threw this loving tribute
to its co-founder. The program features three of his ballets: Vienna Waltzes,
starring Kyra Nichols, Sean Lavery, Heather Watts, Helgi Tomasson, Elyse
Borne, Bart Cook, Karin von Aroldingen, Peter Martins, Suzanne Farrell
and Adam Lüders; Mozartiana, led by Farrell, Victor Castelli and Ib Anderson; and Who Cares?, featuring Lourdes Lopez, Patricia McBride, Heather Watts and Sean Lavery.
Thursday, June 4 at 8:00pm ET
Wayne McGregor's Chroma, Ronald K. Brown's Grace and Robert Battle's Takadame. Alvin Ailey's classic masterpiece Revelations, set to African American spirituals, rounds out the program.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Ballet Appreciation online! Canadians in Ballet
Frances Chung, San Francisco Ballet |
Celine Gittens, Birmingham Royal Ballet |
Lecturer: Katherine Barber
When you think of hotbeds of balletic talent, Saskatoon and North Bay are not the first places that spring to mind. Yet Canadians are making waves all over the ballet world, often with little recognition at home. Get to know 14 of them in these two entertaining talks, illustrated by video clips, which will also explore the variety of what constitutes “ballet” today.
Each talk is about 50 minutes long.
These will be delivered online via Zoom. If you haven't used Zoom before, it's pretty easy.
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Once you sign up, I will send you the link to connect to Zoom.
Tip: if you don't know what time 2pm Eastern is in your time zone, just type "2 pm Eastern Time" into Google and it will convert it for you.
Part 1:
Tuesday 26 May at 2 pm Eastern Time
$15 Cdn including tax
Part 2:
Tuesday 2 June at 2 pm Eastern Time
$15 Cdn including tax
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020
This week's livestreams
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