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National Arts Centre presents: Morphoses / The Wheeldon Company

By Julye Huggins

A one-night-only performance by Morphoses / The Wheeldon Company comes to the National Arts Centre in Ottawa February 2nd. Based in New York and London, the company’s dancers hail from around the world including Dallas Blagg and Laura Feig, who previously performed with the National Ballet of Canada. This fresh ballet company, co-founded by Christopher Wheeldon and Lourdes Lopez in 2007, has quickly reached international acclaim with several premieres each year. Four of their newest works will have their Canadian premiere tomorrow, including Continuum and Rhapsody Fantaisie by Christopher Wheeldon, Softly As I Leave You by Lightfoot León and Boléro by Alexei Ratmansky. This video is of Wheeldon’s 2007 work Fool’s Paradise.

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Posted February 1, 2010

Caribana is Our Stage

Themes of becoming, shaping from and returning to are central to Caribbean performance arts. As one of these art forms, Carnival is a nuanced performance art practice rooted in the cultural memory of the lives of Caribbean peoples throughout Canada and the diaspora. But whose story is told (or not told) and in what context? The telling or omission of stories can be traced to a lack of understanding of the complexity of the Caribbean and its Carnival – a performance tradition that is more than the mass commodification, sexuality and “loud music” we often associate it with.

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Peter Quanz: National Choreographers Initiative

Leading up to an exciting performance of new experimental ballets, Canada’s own Peter Quanz is working away with a fresh batch of dancers in southern California at the National Choreographers Initiative.

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