Ballet British Columbia, Canada’s main up to date dance firm, is heading to the UK for his or her first tour in 2018.
Founded in 1986, Ballet British Columbia has been underneath the creative directorship of Emily Molnar since 2009. Emily was lately appointed to the Order of Canada for her creative management of the corporate and its contribution to advancing up to date dance in Canada.
In this podcast interview held on the Canadian Embassy in London, Emily shares her journey from taking up the corporate at a time when it was nearing chapter, to reworking the corporate into the main up to date dance firm in Canada.
Emily revolutionised the corporate from the bottom up, beginning with the technical capabilities of the dancers, to re-invigorating the repertoire by bringing new choreographers to create new and thrilling works on the corporate.
Emily shares how her personal profitable dancer profession – solid with the National Ballet of Canada, Ballet Frankfurt and as a principal with Ballet BC – influenced her method to rescuing the corporate that was struggling artistically and financially. The UK tour is a part of Emily’s creative imaginative and prescient for the way forward for the corporate, setting it firmly on the worldwide stage.
Ballet British Columbia and its 18-strong dancer-workforce return to the UK with the identical night of dance that wowed the pageant viewers in 2016.
During the 2018 spring tour, the corporate makes its London debut as a part of the six-venue engagement that presents work by three of the world’s most celebrated feminine choreographers:
– 16+ a room by Emily Molnar
– Solo Echo by the globally famend choreographer Crystal Pite
– Bill by Tel Aviv-based Sharon Eyal.
Emily’s 16+ a room is impressed by the work of Virginia Woolf, Jeannette Winterson and Emily Dickinson.
Sparked with explosive, fast-paced choreography that pushes the dancers to their athletic and technical limits, 16+ a room shows Molnar’s distinctive choreographic language by means of a fancy research of time, transition and stillness.
16+ a room obtained its world premiere for Ballet British Columbia in October 2013. Music is organized and composed by Dirk P. Haubrich. Lighting design is by Jordan Tuinman with lighting course by James Proudfoot and costumes by Kate Burrows.
Vancouver-born Crystal Pite is a former dancer with Ballet British Columbia. Pite made her choreographic debut with the corporate in 1990 with Between the Bliss and Me.
The success of the work allowed Pite to create further items for Ballet British Columbia and since then she has created over 40 works for a number of the world’s prime dance firms.
Inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Brahms and the poem ‘Lines for Winter’ by Mark Strand, Pite’s Solo Echo portrays a person coming to phrases with himself on the finish of his life because the choreographer explores recurring themes of acceptance and loss.
Solo Echo obtained its world premiere in February 2012 (Nederlands Dans Theater) and its Canadian premiere in November 2015 (Ballet British Columbia). Lighting design is by Tom Visser, set design by Jay Gower Taylor and costume designs by Crystal Pite and Joke Visser.
A Sadler’s Wells’ Associate Artist, Pite has gained a variety of prestigious awards together with two Oliviers for Polaris in 2015 and Betroffenheit in 2017.
The ultimate piece is Bill by Tel Aviv-based choreographer Sharon Eyal. Dancers showcase their extraordinary abilities in synchronised ensemble sections and solos within the work created by Eyal along with her long-time collaborators Gai Behar and Ori Lichtik.
Bill obtained its world premiere in May 2010 (Batsheva Dance Company) and its Canadian premiere in May 2016 (Ballet British Columbia). Original music and soundtrack design is by Ori Lichtik, lighting design is by Omer Sheizaf and costume design by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar.
Eyal was born in Jerusalem and has loved a long-standing affiliation with the Batsheva Dance Company. Eyal launched L-E-V with Gai Behar in 2013.
Eyal is the Guest Artistic Director for the National Youth Dance Company and her work for the corporate will premiere at Sadler’s Wells in April 2018.
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