24 Preludes by Chopin & Emergence
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Performance Photo Gallery (5 images)
- Sonia Rodriguez with Artists of the Ballet in 24 Preludes by Chopin. Photo by Bruce Zinger.
- Noah Long and Tiffany Mosher in 24 Preludes by Chopin. Photo by Sian Richards.
- Andreea Olteanu and Noah Long in 24 Preludes by Chopin. Photo by Sian Richards.
- Artists of the Ballet in Emergence. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
- Artists of the Ballet in Emergence. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
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Performance Photo Gallery (5 images)
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Greta Hodgkinson and Aleksandar Antonijevic in Emergence. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
October 15 – 16, 2010
Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts, Montréal
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About the Ballets
- Choreography:
- Marie Chouinard
- Staged by:
- Martha Carter
- Music:
- Frédéric Chopin
- Piano Soloist:
- Edward Connell
- Costume Design:
- Vandal
- Make-up Design:
- Jacques-Lee Pelletier
- Lighting Design:
- Axel Morgenthaler
- Repetiteur:
- Peter Ottmann
- 24 Preludes by Chopin is a gift from THE VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE, THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA
24 Preludes by Chopin
Marie Chouinard’s elusive, enigmatic and inimitable 24 Preludes by Chopin returns to enthrall audiences with its blend of startling physicality, surprising delicacy and oblique humour.
Playing the formal demands of balletic structure off against a free-form emotional and imaginative suggestiveness, much as Chopin did in musical terms with his Preludes, Ms. Chouinard’s work shows her to be without question one of the most exhilaratingly daring choreographers of her time.
Ms. Chouinard made her debut with The National Ballet of Canada in 2008, setting her celebrated 1999 work, 24 Preludes by Chopin, on the company.
- Choreography:
- Crystal Pite
- Staged by:
- Hope Muir
- Original Score:
- Owen Belton
- Set Design:
- Jay Gower Taylor
- Costume Design:
- Linda Chow
- Lighting Design:
- Alan Brodie
- Emergence is generously supported by Gail Hutchison.
Emergence
Crystal Pite's Emergence, created as part of the company's Innovation programme in the 2008/09 season, brought audiences to their feet after every performance and went on to win four Dora Awards.
A riveting, dark-hued work that casts a swarming, scurrying group of dancers, insect-like, in an eerily subterranean universe, Emergence dramatizes, through its mesmerizing choreographic attack, the ways in which the instinct for creating social forms seems hard-wired into life itself.
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Reviews
24 Preludes by Chopin
"24 Preludes by Frédéric Chopin give[s] the National Ballet of Canada a fresh, edgy look... Chouinard's work is full of audacity and surprises – all the better to sharpen the National Ballet's cutting edge."
- The Toronto Star, 2008
"an evening of choreographic delights. The iconoclast Chouinard has deconstructed Chopin's quintessential romantic music to create quirky dances that reflect mood, emotion and beat, but as she hears them."
- The Globe and Mail, 2008
"It's white-knuckle stuff that unequivocally asserts dance's often evidentially disputable claim to be the most fundamental and relevant of performed arts. In short, go see it. You'll have no regrets."
- The National Post, 2008
Emergence
"Pite's Emergence offers a contemplation of human and insect activities – the swarm as social group; the hive as home – and makes its points well... The piece is wholly successful and speaks with its own voice."
- The Financial Times (London, UK), 2009
"Crystal Pite's Emergence, a beautifully crafted, mysterious, impressionistic piece that captures the hidden world of insects, and can also stand as a metaphor for human existence."
- The Globe and Mail, 2009
"The piece is menacing, dark, sinister... but beautiful in the way the dancers constantly create symmetries... The partnering was vigorous. The men manhandled the women in almost violent lifts and manipulations."
- Toronto Star, 2009
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