Ballet BC recently announced the appointment of new Executive Director Branislav Henselmann. In a statement, Artistic Director Emily Molnar communicated her support: “Branislav is a talented and accomplished leader whose background, experience, and connections with the international dance community will add significant strength to Ballet BC’s leadership team.” Henselmann, originally a dancer who trained both in Munich and at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, comes to the new position with a wide variety of international experience in arts management. In addition to earning an MFA in Dance and Business Administration as a Dean’s Fellow at New York University, he served as head of programming and learning for DanceEast; artistic curator for New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute; and most recently, as executive producer for London’s Michael Clark Company. Henselmann takes over the role from Jay Rankin, who is now executive director of BJM Danse.
Holly Bright of Crimson Coast Dance Society was awarded one of two 2017 John Hobday Awards in Arts Management, Salomé Nieto won the 2017 VIDF Choreographic Award, Karen Kain, artistic director of The National Ballet of Canada (NBoC) has chosen to mentor Robert Binet, a choreographic associate of NBoC, as part of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Mentorship Program, Meredith Kalaman and Arash Khakpour received Dance Victoria’s Chrystal Dance Prize for Independent Dance Artsis, Katherine Semchuk won the New Work Award from Good Women Dance Collective. In other news, Ballet BC announced the appointment of John Clark as the company’s new Executive Director.
Set to Mozart’s Requiem, with a bit of rock music by Queen’s Freddie Mercury, Amadeus is the ballet story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the genius composer of the classical era.
Vancouver
BC
January 25-1 février 2021
Figure Eights looks to reference the influence and impact of the past, seeing that this history is rooted in us and how we can move forward today.
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