From the direction to the dancing, Ballet Adagio is a classic Canadian masterpiece. Viewed through the expert eye of award-winning Scottish-Canadian director Norman McLaren, the dancers, Canadian-born husband and wife Anna Marie and David Holmes, appear caught in the act of a joyous and perfectly organic pas de deux. The couple were the first North Americans to be invited to dance with the famed Kirov Ballet in Russia and their expertise is palpable. Shot in slow motion to Albinoni’s enchanting music, each movement of Messerer’s demanding pas de deux is captured alongside flower-child radiance and ease. With athletic agility and exacting grace, the formidable motions of ballet are made human through Anna Marie and David’s joie de vivre.
As a part of our series Dance Criticism: Perceptions, challenges and the future, Grace Wells-Smith speaks to four Canadian dance critics about how dance criticism fits into the current fold.
In celebration of Canada’s oldest ballet company, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet presents a short film reflecting on their past seventy-five years and driving them into an exciting future.
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November 7, 2020-29 mai 2021
Coco Collective’s Dance Mentorship program returns for its third year! Do you have at least one year experience in the dance industry?
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