The National Ballet of Canada

Repertoire 2000-2009

Rebekah Rimsay and Piotr Stanczyk in An Italian Straw Hat
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Rebekah Rimsay and Piotr Stanczyk in An Italian Straw Hat
2000/01
Ballet Music Choreographer Designer Lighting Designer
The Firebird Igor Stravinsky James Kudelka Santo Loquasto David A. Finn
The Comforts of Solitude Bertrand Chénier Jean-Pierre Perreault Jean-Pierre Perault with help from Marjory Fielding Christopher Dennis
A Delicate Battle J.S. Bach/Gavin Bryars Matjash Mrozewski Christopher Read Christopher Dennis
Madame Butterfly Giacomo Puccini Stanton Welch Peter Farmer Christopher Dennis
2001/02
Ballet Music Choreographer Designer Lighting Designer
The Contract Michael Torke James Kudelka Michael Levine Kevin Lamotte
Solitaire (Revival) Malcolm Arnold Kenneth MacMillan Lawrence Schaefer Christopher Dennis
Intermezzo (Revival) Johannes Brahms Eliot Feld Stanley Simmons Allen Lee Hughs
2002/03
Ballet Music Choreographer Designer Lighting Designer
Tristan and Isolde Michael Bushnell and Owen Underhill John Alleyne Kim Nielsen Gerald King
2003/04
Ballet Music Choreographer Designer Lighting Designer
Gazebo Dances (excerpt) John Corigliano James Kudelka    
The End (solo) Johannes Brahms James Kudelka Santo Loquasto Christopher Dennis
There, below Ralph Vaughan Williams James Kudelka Claudia Lynch Howell Binkley
Monument Jean Sibelius Matjash Mrozewski Set: Yannik Larivée
Costume: Christopher Read
Christopher Dennis
Cinderella* Sergei Prokofiev James Kudelka David Boechler Christopher Dennis
2004/05
Ballet Music Choreographer Designer Lighting Designer
Chacony Henry Purcell, edited by
Benjamin Britten
James Kudelka Marjory Fielding and Christopher Read Christopher Dennis
Stravinsky Violin Concerto Igor Stravinsky George Balanchine   Christopher Dennis
Opus 19/ The Dreamer Sergei Prokofiev Jerome Robbins Ben Benson Jennifer Tipton
An Italian Straw Hat Michael Torke James Kudelka Santo Loquasto Kevin Lamotte
2005/06
Ballet Music Choreographer Designer Lighting Designer
Romeo and Juliet before parting Sergei Prokofiev James Kudelka   Christopher Dennis
Full Circles Ann Southam James Kudelka   Christopher Dennis
La Sylphide (revival) Herman Løvenskjold Nikolaj Hübbe, after August Bournonville Peter Cazalet Pierre Lavoie
Petrouchka Igor Stravinsky Michel Fokine after original concept by Alexandre Benois Christopher Dennis
C.V. Owen Belton Matjash Mrozewski   Christopher Dennis
Grand Pas Classique Daniel François Esprit Auber after Victor Gsovsky, staged by Magdalena Popa    
2006/07
Ballet Music Choreographer Designer Lighting Designer
A Footstep of Air Ludwig van Beethoven, orchestrated by Sol Berkowitz Eliot Feld Willa Kim Allen Lee Hughes
Polyphonia Gyorgy Ligeti Christopher Wheeldon Holly Hynes Mark Stanley
Wolf’s Court Alexina Louie Matjash Mrozewski Yannik Larivée Christopher Dennis
Balanchine’s Don Quixote Nicolas Nabokov George Balanchine, staged by Suzanne Farrell Set: Zack Brown
Costume: Holly Hynes
Brad Fields
2007/08
Ballet Music Choreographer Designer Lighting Designer
Glass Pieces Philip Glass Jerome Robbins, staged by Jean-Pierre Frohlich Set: Jerome Robbins and Ronald Bates
Costume: Ben Benson
Jennifer Tipton, recreated by Penny Jacobus
In the Night Frédéric Chopin Jerome Robbins, staged by Christine Redpath Anthony Dowell Jennifer Tipton, recreated by Penny Jacobus
West Side Story Suite Music: Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
Choreography: Jerome Robbins, staged by Jean-Pierre Frohlich and Jenifer Ringer
Co-Choreographer: Peter Gennaro
Set: Oliver Smith
Costume: Irene Sharaff
Jennifer Tipton, recreated by Penny Jacobus
24 Preludes by Chopin Frédéric Chopin Marie Chouinard Costume: Vandal
Make-up: Jacques-Lee Pelletier
Axel Morgenthaler
Rooster The Rolling Stones Christopher Bruce Marian Bruce Tina MacHugh
Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan Johannes Brahms Frederick Ashton, staged by Lynn Seymour David Deane Christopher Dennis
2008/09
Ballet Music Choreographer Designer Lighting Designer
In the Upper Room Philip Glass Twyla Tharp Costume: Norma Kamali Jennifer Tipton
The Seagull Dmitri Shostakovich/ Evelyn Glennie/Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky/ Alexander Scriabin John Neumeier, after the play by Anton Checkhov John Neumeier John Neumeier
IN COLOUR Anton Lubchenko Peter Quanz Michael Gianfrancesco Christopher Dennis
Emergence Owen Belton Crystal Pite Set: Jay Gower Taylor Costume: Linda Chow Alan Brodie
DEXTRIS Antonio Vivaldi Sabrina Matthews Costume: Caroline O’Brien Christopher Dennis
Skin Divers Gavin Bryars Dominique Dumais Tatyana van Walsum Mark Stanley
Carmen Music: Georges Bizet/Meredith Monk/Rodion Shchedrin/ José Serebrier/Tambours du Bronx
Sound Editing: Silvio Brambilia
Davide Bombana Dorin Gal Dorin Gal
2009/10
Ballet Music Choreographer Designer Lighting Designer
Watch her Lera Auerbach Aszure Barton Yannik Larivée Christopher Dennis
A Suite of Dances Johann Sebastian Bach Jerome Robbins Santo Loquasto Jennifer Tipton, recreated by Nicole Pearce
Pur ti Miro Ludwig van Beethoven/Claudio Monteverdi Jorma Elo Holly Hynes John Cuff
Onegin* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arranged and orchestrated by Kurt-Heinze Stolze John Cranko, staged by Reid Anderson Santo Loquasto James F. Ingalls

* New Production