After 26 years, Nationwide Ballet of Canada Principal Dancer Guillaume Côté will mark his last performances with the corporate Might 30 to June 5. This system, appropriately is titled Adieu, and opens the NBC’s Summer season Season with an all-Canadian lineup of works, together with Côté’s new work Grand Mirage, together with the reprisal of his Boléro, and world premieres from Choreographic Affiliate Ethan Colangelo and dancemaker Jennifer Archibald.
“It’s overwhelming how a lot magnificence and fervour there may be in my coronary heart for what the Nationwide Ballet has given me – a household and a life that has formed who I’m and is one thing that I’ll carry without end,” stated Côté in a press release.
“For my last performances, I wished to work with a really shut collaborator, movie director Ben Shirinian for Grand Mirage. Ben and I’ve labored on many movies collectively together with Misplaced in Movement and Lulu and I assumed it could be very particular to ask Ben to create a movie aspect as I say farewell.”
Created with Canadian filmmaker Ben Shirinian, the multimedia work Grand Mirage showcases Côté’s work as each dancer and choreographer, and reunites him with long-time companion, former Principal Dancer Greta Hodgkinson, who will seem as a Principal Visitor Artist.
Guillaume’s Boléro was created for the Nationwide Ballet’s sixtieth Anniversary Diamond Gala in 2012.
World Premieres
A local of Toronto, Ethan Colangelo skilled with Canada’s Nationwide Ballet Faculty and Elite Danceworx. He’s graduate of The Juilliard Faculty, the place he acquired the Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreographic Promise.
His first full firm mainstage fee, titled Reverence, will make its world premiere. The piece is impressed by the Hieronymus Bosch portray The Backyard of Earthly Delights, and explores the best way that contrasting feelings, denoted by moments of virtuosity juxtaposed with extra refined actions and music, can exist within the physique on the similar time. The unique rating was composed by Ethan’s frequent collaborator Ben Waters.
Jennifer Archibald was born in Toronto, and went on to review dance at The Alvin Ailey Faculty and the Maggie Flanigan Appearing Conservatory. She is the founder and Inventive Director of the Arch Dance Firm and Program Director of ArchCore40 Dance Intensives.
Her first choreographic collaboration with NBC incorporates her signature mix of hip-hop with classical ballet and up to date motion. Archibald has choreographed for dance and ballet corporations, off-Broadway musicals, and chart-topping singers like Ludacris and Shaggy, together with working as a motion specialist and marketing consultant for actors and film tasks, in addition to industrials for corporations like Nike and Reebok.
Jennifer has choreographed for the Atlanta Ballet, Ailey II, Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet Memphis, Kansas Metropolis Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Ballet Nashville, Grand Rapids Ballet, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, and Stockholm’s Balletakademien, and Canadian Modern Dance Theatre. She was appointed as the primary feminine Resident Choreographer in Cincinnati Ballet’s 40-year historical past.
Jennifer is an Appearing Lecturer on the Yale Faculty of Drama and was appointed as a Visitor College Lecturer to develop the hip hop dance curriculum at Barnard School.
- Discover tickets and extra particulars about Adieu, Might 30 to June 5, [HERE].
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