WIN! Tickets to Royal Ballet Winter's Tale screening at the Bloor Cinema Toronto

Courtesy of the Bloor Cinema, Tours en l'air has 4 pairs of tickets to give away to their upcoming screening of Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale, performed by the Royal Ballet, on Sunday August 23 at noon.

To enter the contest, email toursenlair@gmail.com with the subject line WINTERSTALE by midnight Sunday August 16.

A draw will be made on Monday August 17. Winners will be notified by email.




Cast:
Lauren Cuthbertson - Hermione
Steven McRae - Florizel
Edward Watson - Leontes
Zenaida Yanowsky - Paulina
Sarah Lamb - Perdita
Federico Bonelli - Polixenes
Bennet Gartside - Antigonus
Joe Parker - Mamillius

The Winter's Tale is a co-production with The National Ballet of Canada and will be performed in Toronto in the NBOC's 2015-16 season.

‘a triumph’ -- (Daily Telegraph)

Shakespeare’s enduring story of jealousy, compassion and forgiveness. Wheeldon’s staging is ‘eye-delighting’ (Financial Times), effortlessly capturing the work’s profound emotional trajectory, with powerful designs by Bob Crowley, Joby Talbot’s ‘skilful’ score (Guardian) and constantly inventive choreography. 

http://youtu.be/MS1cUOVpxyQ

 
 

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Ballet appreciation course in Ottawa Fall 2015

I will be offering an "Introduction to the Ballet Broadcast Season" course at Carleton University this fall.

Week 1 – Star-crossed lovers

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Prokofiev's stirring music have inspired almost every ballet choreographer. We look particularly at the version by Royal Ballet choreographer Kenneth MacMillan.

Week 2 – Sunny Spain and Sleeping Beauties – the St Petersburg version

In Don Quixote, the late 19th-century team of choreographer Marius Petipa and composer Ludwig Minkus filled the stage with fun and virtuosity. Spanish? Not really, but who cares. Later, Petipa teamed up with Tchaikovsky to create a masterpiece that is more than just a fairy tale.

Week 3 – The Two Masters of American Ballet

George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins tower over all other choreographers of ballet in America. Two of their most beautiful pas de deux, Afternoon of a Faun and Tchaikovsky pas de deux, reveal much about their different styles and personalities.

Week 4 – Men Leaping About

The Bolshoi Ballet has long been renowned for its strong male dancing, and this is particularly on display in Spartacus, a dramatic blockbuster set in ancient Rome by the Bolshoi's longtime choreographer Yuri Grigorovich.

Week 5 – Not Swans, but Pigeons

In The Two Pigeons, the master of the warm fuzzies, Frederick Ashton, takes a simple tale of a wayward lover who comes back to his sweetheart and leaves you in tears with a beautiful pas de deux created for a Canadian ballerina.

Week 6 – Mermaids, Marguerite, and the Man from Milwaukee

John Neumeier, the creative genius of the Hamburg Ballet, keeps the art of the story ballet alive and pays homage to the history of ballet. His Lady of the Camellias is one of the most heart-wrenching works in the repertoire.

Fridays, September 18th – October 23rd
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: Room 124, Leeds House Building
Lectures, discussions, film clips 
Fee: $130.00 (HST included)
Enrollment capacity: 55 participants  



REGISTRATION:
Registration for all lecture series begins on Wednesday, August 5th, 2015 at 9:00 a.m.
 
Registration details can be found on Carleton's website: carleton.ca/linr/registration/

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International Petipa Colloquium in Bordeaux, October 2015

The Ballet de l'Opera de Bordeaux and some academic institutions in the Bordeaux region are hosting a 3-day Petipa Colloquium, with a closing performance.
There is a website devoted to the colloquium, for more information on the program, please click here:
http://www.msha.fr/petipa/?language=GB


 

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Cinema screenings of Winter's Tale in Toronto and Cobourg

Christopher Wheeldon's much-lauded The Winter's Tale with the Royal Ballet, a hit with critics and audiences alike,  will be shown at two venues in Southern Ontario in August:

1) the Bloor Cinema in Toronto , Bloor St east of Bathurst, Sunday August 23rd at noon

2) Aug 20 and 23rd at the Loft at Harden & Huyse Cafe 201 Division St in Cobourg, Ontario.

Cast:
Lauren Cuthbertson - Hermione
Steven McRae - Florizel
Edward Watson - Leontes
Zenaida Yanowsky - Paulina
Sarah Lamb - Perdita
Federico Bonelli - Polixenes
Bennet Gartside - Antigonus
Joe Parker - Mamillius

The Winter's Tale is a co-production with The National Ballet of Canada and will be performed in Toronto in the NBOC's 2015-16 season.

‘a triumph’ -- (Daily Telegraph)

Shakespeare’s enduring story of jealousy, compassion and forgiveness. Wheeldon’s staging is ‘eye-delighting’ (Financial Times), effortlessly capturing the work’s profound emotional trajectory, with powerful designs by Bob Crowley, Joby Talbot’s ‘skilful’ score (Guardian) and constantly inventive choreography. 

http://youtu.be/MS1cUOVpxyQ

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 "Christopher Wheeldon's new three-act version of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is a triumph. It is contemporary and classical, traditional and modern, narrative and abstract. It feels like something entirely new. It is this profound emotional trajectory that Wheeldon catches so brilliantly. He deals with the complexities of the story with great confidence – each moment is absolutely clear. But the reason that The Winter's Tale makes such a superb ballet is that ... the great arc from abject despair to reconciliation is traced in movement that attains its own poetry. In charting this poignant story, Wheeldon is much assisted by designs by Bob Crowley which bring wonderful, dense colour and fluid, powerful settings to every scene; the action switches from the dark Sicilian court to the wonder of Bohemia, with a great green tree hung with glitter, with fluent beauty." (The Daily Telegraph)

"The linchpin of the staging is Edward Watson's portrayal of Leontes and his descent into a nightmare of jealousy and manic suspicions, which must give the narrative its momentum. Watson is superb, his body contorted by shapes entirely revelatory, his anger and his anguish in Wheeldon's imagery profoundly disquieting, and ever inviting of understanding... The staging is a visual triumph, potent, evocative, eye-delighting." (The Financial Times) 

"Christopher Wheeldon's striking new version of this Shakespeare piece crams everything you could want from a ballet into a single evening - comedy, tragedy, romance, drama and some lovely dancing. What's striking is the synthesis of dance, music and designs." (Evening Standard ) 

"Christopher Wheeldon rises to the challenge of translating Shakespeare into dance, creating one of most fully achieved story ballets to be staged at Covent Garden in years. Wheeldon has used this play to develop the most expressive and inventive dance language we've yet seen from him. ... On a stage dominated by one magically illuminated, decorated tree, this act is pure dance, a seamless fusion of the folksy and the poetic, in which Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae are adorable pastoral lovers, and Valentino Zucchetti is the wittiest of shepherds." (The Guardian)

Master Calendar European Ballet Performances 2015-16

Planning a trip and want to know what ballet performances are on where you're going? Scroll down to the spreadsheets at the bottom of this page for master calendars of ballet company seasons in Europe and North America.










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1) Ballet Performances in Europe from August 2015 - July 2016
Most major ballet companies and venues are listed, 2015 on sheet 1, 2015 on sheet 2 (see list below).
Augsburg Ballet, Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, Ballet Nice-Mediterrannee, Ballet du Theatre du Capitole Toulouse, Ballet of La Scala, Milan (till end Oct. 2016), Ballet of the National Theatre Prague (Czech National Ballet), Barcelona Teatro del Liceu, Bavarian State Ballet, Berlin State Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet (till December 2015),  Bordeaux Opera Ballet, Dresden Semperoper Ballet, Dutch National Ballet and Junior Company, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, English National Ballet, Estonian National Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, Hungarian State Opera Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet, Mikhailovsky Ballet (till end 2015) Northern Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet,  Roberto Bolle and Friends, Rome Opera Ballet (till end Nov. 2016), Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Royal Danish Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Slovak National Theatre Ballet Bratislava, Stanislavsky Ballet (till end 2015), Stuttgart Ballet, Theatre du Chatelet Paris,  Teatro San Carlo Naples, Vienna State Ballet (Staatsoper and Volksoper), Zurich Ballet











Performances in North America from September 2015 till July 2016
COMING SOON!!
Please note that most Nutcracker performances are not listed because of the sheer quantity of them. You can be pretty sure that anywhere you are in December, there will be a Nutcracker on!
Companies and venues listed: Alberta Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Auditorium Theatre Chicago, Ballet Arizona, Ballet BC, Boston Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, Houston Ballet,  Joffrey Ballet, Kennedy Centre, Miami City Ballet, National Arts Centre Ottawa, National Ballet of Canada,  New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, Silicon Valley Ballet, Sony Centre Toronto.

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US Ballet companies in cinema broadcasts

Lincoln Center has announced a cinema broadcast series featuring San Francisco Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet Hispanico and New York City Ballet.

All  will be previously recorded rather than live.

In partnership with Fathom Events in the US, the series presents:

 

Sept. 24: San Francisco Ballet, Helgi Tomasson's “Romeo & Juliet”, filmed in May in San Francisco. 

 

Oct. 22: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Ailey’s “Revelations,” Wayne McGregor’s “Chroma,” Ronald K. Brown’s “Grace” and Robert Battle’s “Takademe” 

 

Nov. 12: Ballet Hispanico’s “Carmen.maquia” and “Club Havana”

Dec. 5 and 10: New York City Ballet: Balanchine's “Nutcracker” (recorded December 2011)

 

Some details remain to be worked out.In due course, performance venues will be announced on www.fathomevents.com

No word yet on whether any of these will be shown in Canada.

 

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School of American Ballet performance on PBS

Don’t Miss: Curtain Up: The School of American Ballet Workshop Performances

July 31 on PBS

The School of American Ballet produces some of the finest talent the world has to offer. Go behind the scenes to experience the training of these driven young performers as they strive to become ballet's brightest future stars and prepare an all-Balanchine program featuring Serenade and excerpts from Coppelia, Swan Lake, and Western Symphony. 

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Fall for Dance North Toronto Program

FALL FOR DANCE NORTH
Artistic Director: Ilter Ibrahimof
Inspired by the internationally acclaimed Fall for Dance  Festival™, created in 2004 by New York City Center a new event comes to Toronto….Fall for Dance North - September 29th to October 1st at the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts.  
  
Like the original festival, Fall for Dance North’s audiences will revel in dynamic mixed programs where they will experience anything from contemporary ballet to flamenco and tap in a single evening.  See 11 acclaimed Canadian and international companies over two distinct programs, with cultural influences that reflect the energy and diversity of Toronto. 

Remarkably, for each performance, every seat in every section of the venue will cost just $10! 
PROGRAM 1 - September 29, 2015
Dance Company: The National Ballet of Canada
Country of origin: Canada
Repertoire: TBC
 
Dance Company: Nrtiyagam *Toronto Debut*
Country of origin: India
Repertoire: VIBHAKTA - a duet with Surupa Sen (artistic director, choreographer and soloist) and Bijayini Satpathy (soloist), accompanied by four live musicians.
Nrityagram is one of the most well-regarded and internationally renown classical Indian dance companies. From Nrityagram near Bangalore, the company brings new life to the most ancient Indian dance, Odissi.
Dance Company: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
Country of origin: United States, New York City
Repertoire: TAKADEME, by Robert Battle
Ailey has a long history of being presented at the Sony Centre  and is very excited to be part of first ever Fall for Dance North in Toronto. It is the only company that will perform all three nights. The repertoire will change for the September 30 and October 1 performances.



PROGRAM 2 (September 30 & October 1) Dance Company: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
Country of origin: United States (New York City)
Repertoire: AFTER THE RAIN PAS-DE-DEUX, by Christopher Wheeldon
Christopher Wheeldon won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Choreography for his work on An American in Paris on Broadway. He is well known to Toronto audiences. The National Ballet of Canada co-produced his Alice with The Royal Ballet, as well as the upcoming The Winter's Tale. He made After the Rain for New York City Ballet in 2005. The duet is the most famous part of the ballet, and it was originally danced by Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto.
Artists: Peggy Baker ft. Sarah Neufeld of Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre. *WORLD PREMIERE, FESTIVAL COMMISSION
Country of origin: Canada (Toronto)
Repertoire: Peggy and Sarah are collaborating on a new choreography to be performed by Peggy with a live music accompaniment by Sarah.
Dance Company: DanceBrazil
Country of origin: Brazil
DanceBrazil evolved from grass-roots workshops in 1977 and has since thrilled audiences with a unique fusion of Afro-Brazillian movement, contemporary dance and the traditional dance/martial arts form Capoeira. Note: DanceBrazil will feature 10 dancers and three live musicians.
Dance Company: Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company
Country of origin: Canada (Toronto)
Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company captures the essence of flamenco balancing tradition and classicism with a modern, contemporary aesthetic. Esmeralda will revive one of her most well received pieces with guest artist(s) from Spain. 

General Public Onsale starts on Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 10:00 AM EDT

To buy tickets: 
http://www.ticketmaster.ca/venueartist/131106/2135017&camefrom=cfc_sony_centre_sonyweb_FFDN

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Greta Hodgkinson performs at PanAm Games #Toronto2015

National Ballet of Canada Principal Dancer Greta Hodgkinson will be performing Venom, choreographed by Guillaume Coté, at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto as part of the PanAm Games cultural activities, July 13, 14, 15, 17, and 18 at 915 pm. Performance is outdoors and admission is free. 

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Dance premiere at Pan-Am Games #Toronto2015

Canada’s National Ballet School presents "of the People" by Shaun Amyot and Demis Volpi

Where

Betty Oliphant Theatre at Canada's - National Ballet School 404 Jarvis Street 
Toronto, ON
M4Y 2G6

When

Wednesday July 15, 2015 - 07:30 PM

TICKET

Tickets starting from $30

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World Premiere

Emerging dance artists from six different countries of the Americas will come together at Canada's National Ballet School to explore their cultural differences and similarities in a new work choreographed by Shaun Amyot (Canada) and National Ballet School graduate and Stuttgart Ballet dancer and resident choreographer Demis Volpi (Argentina). Shorter works choreographed and performed by NBS students will complete the program.  Ticketed

https://youtu.be/kM1ypP7-Jtc

 

Ralph Fiennes to direct Nureyev film for BBC

It was announced today that Ralph Fiennes will be directing a feature-length film based on an incident in the life of Rudolf Nureyev. Fiennes will not be playing the part of Nureyev. The film will be written by David Hare, screenwriter of The Reader. For more details:

http://www.screendaily.com/news/ralph-fiennes-to-direct-rudolf-nureyev-drama/5089637.article

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Jurgita Dronina joins National Ballet of Canada as Principal Dancer

Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, today announced Jurgita Dronina will join the company as Principal Dancer in the 2015/16 season. The 2015/16 roster will also include eight new Corps de Ballet members.
Jurgita Dronina was born in Saratov, Russia and trained at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art in Lithuania and Munich International Ballet School. She was a Principal Dancer with the Royal Swedish Ballet and Dutch National Ballet before joining the National Ballet. Ms. Dronina was also a Guest Principal Artist with The Hong Kong Ballet. Her repertoire includes Nykia in La Bayadère, Princess Aurora in The  Sleeping Beauty, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, the title role in Giselle, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Kitri in Don Quixote by Alexei Ratmansky and the title role in Christopher’s Wheeldon’s Cinderella. Ms. Dronina has also created roles in contemporary works by such choreographers as Jean-Christophe Maillot, Rudi van Dantzig, Benjamin Millepied, Jorma Elo, David Dawson and Sidi-Larbi Cherkaoui.

On her facebook page, Jurgita Dronina had this to say:
"I am delighted to be joining the National Ballet of Canada and working for Karen Kain as my artistic director , I truly admire her strong artistic vision and quality demands for the company.
When I first approached Karen, I felt such an appreciation for my work, artistic drive and future goals, that I instantly felt that, this is the place that will meet all my expectations both professionally and personally.
I am excited to move to my new home in Toronto and give the best years of my career to the National Ballet of Canada. With the marvelous repertoire that the company has and with it's rich history, I am simply proud to be part of it !"

I have seen Jurgita Dronina dance on Tours en l'air trips to the Netherlands and am very excited that she is joining our company in Toronto.

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19 June 2015

Dear Balletomane,

In this newsletter:

1. Vote for your dream ballet trip(s) in 2016
2. A bunch o' ballet videos

Full 2016 Tours en l'air season announced

I have added one more trip to the possibilities, a 10-day 20^th anniversary extravaganza for Reid Anderson in Stuttgart in July. Tickets for this will be very hard to come by, but I have already had some put on hold for Tours en l'air. Sightseeing trips to the Black Forest, Baden-Baden, Heidelberg, Rothenburg auf der Tauber, Ludwigsburg, and other “must-see” spots in southern Germany would be included. Here's the ballet program:

July 15 - 25, 11 days
Stuttgart
Reid Anderson 20th Anniversary Celebrations
Dancers of the Korean National Ballet, Czech National Ballet, Ballett Zürich, Ballet du Rhin, Augsburg Ballett, Ballett im Revier and Gauthier Dance
Mixed Program
Stuttgart Ballet
Mixed Program (excerpts from Stuttgart Ballet world premieres of the last 20 years)
the second detail (Forsythe), new Goecke, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony (Scholz)
Romeo and Juliet (Cranko)
The Taming of the Shrew (Cranko)
Onegin  (Cranko)
John Cranko School Gala
Stuttgart Ballet Gala

Please “vote” now for any trip you might be interested in and available for.

We are approaching the “elimination round” of the annual Tours en l'air destination popularity competition.

For those of you who are new to the process, this is how it works:

1. Click here to see the complete list all the trips I have determined are doable and exciting: http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/p/upcoming-ballet-trips.html
2. tell me which ones might suit you, even if later you may have to decline. Please list ALL the trips you might go on. I will not interpret this as meaning you will go on all of them! If you would really like to go on a ballet trip next year and Paris-Amsterdam is your first choice, I highly recommend you give a second choice as well, since the Paris-Amsterdam trip is likely to sell out.
   
   I cannot give estimates on costs at this point; to be able to do that I actually have to plan every detail of the trip, reserve hotel rooms, charter buses, etc. etc.
   You are not committing yourself to anything; it's just a way for me to eliminate any trips for which people aren't available (since I have no idea when you all are free to travel). No point doing all that planning only to find out that no one, for instance, can go to San Francisco in February anyway! But if you ARE interested in a trip, let me know; insufficient expressed interest will cause it to be removed from the schedule.
   Once you're on the list for any given trip, you get priority when booking officially opens. Some of my trips sell out, so you want your name to be in there!
   Over 130 people have now enjoyed the exhilarating and unique experience that is a Tours en l'air Ballet Holiday.
   It's your turn in 2015-16!

Australian Ballet Romeo & Juliet on Knowledge TV

British Columbia's public broadcaster, Knowledge, will be airing Graeme Murphy's Romeo and Juliet starring Madeleine Eastoe and Kevin Jackson and the Australian Ballet on June 24 at 9 pm and Thursday June 25 at 1 am Pacific Time (midnight and 4 am Eastern Time). Knowledge is available by Bell satellite outside of BC.

Royal Ballet La Fille mal Gardee in Toronto

The Bloor Cinema, Bloor just east of Bathurst, will be showing the Royal Ballet's Fille mal Gardée, starring superstars Natalia Osipova and Stephen McRae, on Sunday July 19th at 1230 pm. Take any children you know. Tix are only $12 for adults!

Aurélie Dupont documentary available on YouTube

This documentary, released last month to mark the retirement of one of the greatest dancers of her generation, Paris Opera Ballet's Aurélie Dupont, has now been posted in its entirety on YouTube. It is in French but it is mostly dancing. https://youtu.be/8tFTT_XRs8I

Here's a gorgeous tutu: The Lilac Fairy in The Australian Ballet's new production: http://www.behindballet.com/first-glimpse-the-lilac-fairy/

Dutch National Ballet rehearses a new work by David Dawson (those of us who went to Vienna and Prague raved about his Giselle in Dresden): https://youtu.be/gPoDA5uoNEM

A very cute video about National Ballet of Canada principals Heather Ogden and Guillaume Côté and baby Emma: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/life-video/video-balancing-work-and-family-and-injury-with-canadas-premier-ballet-couple/article24703971/

Preparing to teach my class about Marie Rambert in my “Jewish Contributions to Ballet” course, I was reminded how much I enjoyed Christopher Bruce's Rooster, created for the Rambert Dance Company:

https://youtu.be/GBvX7zG71SI

https://youtu.be/0jhk_Y8cdq8

New York City Ballet's fabulous Daniel Ulbricht (those of us who went to New York met him, and we AIN'T SHARING HIM!!): https://youtu.be/Z8yyCR4yb5Y

Rehearsal video from Vienna State Ballet's “Young Talents” program (including some dancers we had dinner with and watched in class): https://vimeo.com/128344216

Katherine Barber

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