2015/2016 Season
Evolution
The season ends with the coming of spring, featuring Jorden Morris’ Tierra and two brand new performances by two emerging young Canadian choreographers, Lydia Redpath and Shaun Gheyssen.
Ouvrir is Redpath’s thoughtful exploration of a young woman’s commitment to remain open and vulnerable as she navigates through adulthood.
Shaun Gheyssen’s piece Harekat examines the notion of surrendering to change.
Tierra reflects on how dance and the creativity of the human spirit continue to evolve as the seasons change.
Ouvrir
Choreographer: Lydia Redpath
Lighting Design: Blaine Rittinger
Music: Pianoscope by Alexandra Streliski
Length: 22 minutes
Dancers: Kiera Keglowitch (April 15/17), Kylee Hart (April 16) Shaun Gheyssen, Bailey Madill, Kelsey Hanna, Kylee Hart (April 15/17), Kiera Keglowitsch (April 16)
Ouvrir is a thoughtful exploration of a young woman’s commitment to remain open and vulnerable as she navigates her journey into adulthood. Exploring an emotional state with contemporary ballet allows the audience to understand the emotional context.
Harekat
Choreographer: Shaun Gheyssen
Lighting design: Blaine Rittinger
Music: Omid Walizadeh, Mohammad Reza Shadjarian
Length: 15 minutes
Dancers: Full Company
Harekat, which means ‘movement’ in Farsi, is a piece about facing and accepting truth. Body language and movement is often the strongest form of communication – a universal language. Set to Persian music, Harekat attempts to illustrate confusion and acceptance symbolically in this powerful piece about surrendering to change.
Tierra
Choreographer: Jorden Morris
Lighting Design: Blaine Rittinger
Music: Gustavo Santaolalla, Madredeus, Raphaella Smits, Liliana Rodriguez, Duquende, Behzad
Length: 32 minutes
Gaucho: Kiera Keglowitsch, Kylee Hart, Kelsey Hanna, Parisa Mehregan, Jinah Kim, Bailey Madill
Minuetto: Full Company Los Cuatros Mulero: Jinah Kim
El Calor De Fragua: Shaun Gheyssen, Mingyi Liang, Nicholas Kolos
De Ushuaia a la Quiaca: Kylee Hart (April 15/17), Kelsey Hanna (April 16)
Buleria Del Limon: Jinah Kim, Mingyi Liang, Kiera Keglowitsch, Kelsey Hanna, Kylee Hart, Shaun Gheyssen, Lydia Redpath
Los Mozoz de Monleon: Lydia Redpath, Kiera Keglowitsch, Kylee Hart, Jinah Kim, Bailey Madill
Coyita: Kiera Keglowitsch, Shaun Gheyssen
Finale: Full Company
Set to a variety of Spanish music, Tierra explores our relationship with the environment in its most visceral form, the earth itself. This piece is inspired by the people who till or care for the earth, those who have a relationship with the dirt, and spend their lives growing and nurturing beautiful things from that earth. Every culture has those caretakers, those sentinels of the secrets the earth holds. Tierra explores movements where the dancers are, at times, the earth. Sometimes they are caretakers, sometimes the bounty and sometimes the creatures upon it, and how their own relationships are tied to the earth, with a deep rooted love of tradition, gratitude and tenderness.