24 Preludes by Chopin & Emergence & Serenade
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Performance Photo Gallery (6 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.
- Stephanie Hutchison in Serenade. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
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Performance Photo Gallery (6 images)
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Greta Hodgkinson and Aleksandar Antonijevic in Emergence. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
October 21 – 23, 2010
National Arts Centre, Ottawa
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About the Ballets
- Choreography:
- Marie Chouinard
- Music:
- Frédéric Chopin
- Piano Soloist:
- Edward Connell
- Costume Design:
- Vandal
- Make-up Design:
- Jacques-Lee Pelletier
- Lighting Design:
- Axel Morgenthaler
- Répétiteur:
- 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.
- Choreography:
- George Balanchine
- Staged by:
- Joysanne Sidimus
- Music:
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Lighting Design:
- Ronald Bates
Serenade
George Balanchine may not have invented the plotless ballet, but he brought it to a level of perfection and gave to it a style of articulate energy that few have ever matched. His 1934 work Serenade is a distillation of his quietly revolutionary aesthetic and the distinctive poetry of his genius.
Freed from the programmatic burdens of narrative, engaged totally with the effects of the music - in this case Tchaikovsky's sumptuously elegant Serenade in C Major for String Orchestra - Balanchine gave ballet a whole new meaning by revealing the glory of its essence.
This performance is made possible in part by a grant from the Ontario Arts Council's National and International Touring program.
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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
Serenade
"exquisitely captured by the mostly female corps de ballet who demonstrated just how strong the National [Ballet]'s women are."
- The Globe and Mail, 2004
"the work emerges undiminished by the 70 years that have passed since its creation... thanks, in no small part to the skill and devotion brought to the work by the artists of The National Ballet of Canada."
- Toronto Star, 2004
"One of the masterpieces of 20th century ballet"
- Toronto Star, 2001
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Ballet Notes
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Casting
TBA
Running Times
| Serenade | 32:00 |
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| Intermission | 20:00 |
| 24 Preludes by Chopin | 43:00 |
| Intermission | 20:00 |
| Emergence | 29:00 | Total (approx) | 2:35:00 |