Emotion
Season
Featuring the pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet, Ophelia, and Love Articulated (a new performance by Citie Ballet).
Witness an affair between two young lovers in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet’s famous balcony scene. Experience Ophelia, as it hits the inevitable doubts we have about love right on the nose. And then enjoy the first look at Love Articulated, a new performance by Citie Ballet’s own dancer/choreographer, Kiera Keglowitsch.
Ophelia
Choreographer: Jorden Morris
Lighting Design: Blaine Rittinger
Vocalist: Andrea House
Music and Lyrics: Daniel Hope and Kaleigh Watts
Pas de deux: Kylee Hart and Kiera Keglowitsch
Based on the heroine from the Shakespearean classic Hamlet, Ophelia deals with the duality and conflict within ourselves, and how these feelings are often irreconcilable yet inseparably intertwined. Inspired by the powerful music of Daniel Hope, Jorden pushes the contemporary and dramatic skills of the company’s female artists.
Romeo and Juliet
Choreographer: Rudi Van Dantzig
Staged by: Johnny Chang and Caroline Gruber
Lighting design: Blaine Rittinger
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Costumes: Toer Van Schayk
Pas de deux: Lydia Redpath and Shaun Gheyssen
Nurse: Parisa Mehregan
Rudi Van Dantzig’s Romeo and Juliet is a classical masterpiece that has endured the test of time. The heartbreaking story of a young couple desperately in love but destined to be torn apart by their families is told through movement in a compelling pas de deux.
Love Articulated
World premiere February 19, 2016 at Timms Centre for the Arts Edmonton, AB
Choreographer: Kiera Keglowitsch
Lighting Design: Blaine Rittinger
Music: Compositions by Chilly Gonzalez, Nadia Sirota, Frederic Chopin, Timofei Dokshitser, Ludovico Einaudi, Arvo Part and Amy Beach
Intersections: Full Company
Siblings: Kelsey Hanna, Parisa Mehregan, Jinah Kim
Destruction: Kylee Hart and Shaun Gheyssen
Community: Kylee Hart, Kelsey Hanna, Jinah Kim, Bailey Madill, Parisa Mehregan, Lydia Redpath, Shaun Gheyssen
Butterflies: Kylee Hart, Kelsey Hanna, Jinah Kim, Bailey Madill, Parisa Mehregan, Lydia Redpath
Lust: Shaun Gheyssen and Lydia Redpath (lead couple) with Kylee Hart, Kelsey Hanna, Jinah Kim, Bailey Madill, Parisa Mehregan
Tormented: Kylee Hart
Sisterhood: Kelsey Hanna, Parisa Mehregan, Bailey Madill, Kylee Hart
Steadfast: Kylee Hart and Mingyi Liang
Spiritual: Shaun Gheyssen, Nicholas Kolos, Parisa Mehregan, Bailey Madill, Jinah Kim, Lydia Redpath, Kelsey Hanna, Kylee Hart
Synergy: Full Company
Love Articulated is the expression of the many components of love. The choreography explores the breadth of love and the many ways in which it guides our lives. Love is a universal term and something that everyone can relate to in some way, however this performance challenges what we may think of when we consider ‘love’, and pushes us to investigate the less obvious aspects of this complex emotion.
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