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Touring

Ballet Edmonton brings contemporary ballet to communities across Canada and beyond. For touring inquiries, contact sheri@balletedmonton.ca.

Upcoming Tour Dates

Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown

March 16, 2024

Valei-me
Choreography: Diego Ramalho
Lighting Design: Dorrie Deutschendorf
Performers: Full Company

Valei-me is a contemplation on how we are influenced by where we first “belonged.” The work explores how music lives in the nervous system and reflects an unconscious sense of identity connected to place. Brazilian music drives the narrative structure of this emotional and energetic piece.


Only the Window

Choreography: Ihsan Rustem
Sound Design: Davidson Jaconello
Lighting Design: Dorrie Deutschendorf
Performers: Full Company

When something is left unsaid, when a story is incomplete when only a moment captured through the window is visible… Life is replete with mystery, intrigue, the unknown, moments that are left unfinished. How does our mind paint the canvas of missing parts? This creation is inspired by the personal tales of the Ballet Edmonton artists.

March 16, 2024
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Fredericton Playhouse, Fredericton

March 19, 2024

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Valei-me

Choreography: Diego Ramalho
Lighting Design: Dorrie Deutschendorf
Performers: Full Company

Valei-me is a contemplation on how we are influenced by where we first “belonged.” The work explores how music lives in the nervous system and reflects an unconscious sense of identity connected to place. Brazilian music drives the narrative structure of this emotional and energetic piece.


Only the Window

Choreography: Ihsan Rustem
Sound Design: Davidson Jaconello
Lighting Design: Dorrie Deutschendorf
Performers: Full Company

When something is left unsaid, when a story is incomplete when only a moment captured through the window is visible… Life is replete with mystery, intrigue, the unknown, moments that are left unfinished. How does our mind paint the canvas of missing parts? This creation is inspired by the personal tales of the Ballet Edmonton artists.

March 19, 2024
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Live Art Dance, Halifax

March 22, 2024

Valei-me

Choreography: Diego Ramalho
Lighting Design: Dorrie Deutschendorf
Performers: Full Company

Valei-me is a contemplation on how we are influenced by where we first “belonged.” The work explores how music lives in the nervous system and reflects an unconscious sense of identity connected to place. Brazilian music drives the narrative structure of this emotional and energetic piece.


Only the Window

Choreography: Ihsan Rustem
Sound Design: Davidson Jaconello
Lighting Design: Dorrie Deutschendorf
Performers: Full Company

When something is left unsaid, when a story is incomplete when only a moment captured through the window is visible… Life is replete with mystery, intrigue, the unknown, moments that are left unfinished. How does our mind paint the canvas of missing parts? This creation is inspired by the personal tales of the Ballet Edmonton artists.

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March 22, 2024
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Previous Appearances

Friday, April 28, 2023 at 7:30pm
Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre
3800 33 St | Vernon, BC

Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 2:30pm
Monday, April 24, 2023 at 7:30pm

Dance Victoria and the Victoria Symphony present Ballet Edmonton in Music in Motion
Featuring a new commission by Wen Wei Wang
The Royal Theatre | Victoria, BC

March 11, 2023 at 8:00pm
National Arts Centre
Southam Hall | Ottawa, ON

March 7 & 8, 2023 at 8:00pm
DanceWorks 2022-23 Mainstage Series with support from Fall for Dance North
Fleck Dance Theatre | Toronto, ON

January 24, 2023 at 7:30pm
The City of Kingston
Grand Theatre | Kingston, ON

January 27, 2023 at 7:30pm
FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre | St. Catharines, ON

Touring Repertoire

Only the Window

World Premiere Edmonton, Alberta, February 2023
choreography by Ihsan Rustem
World Premiere
Choreography by Ihsan Rustem
Ihsan Rustem is the co-artistic director of Cie. La Ronde, the Swiss dance company he founded in 2020 with choreographer, Cathy Marston. He is also the resident choreographer for the NW Dance Project in Portland, Oregon, USA, where he has created 10 works for the company.

Further collaborations include the Nederlands Dans Theater 2, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, National Ballet of Chile, Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, Ballet Moscow, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago 2, Istanbul State Ballet MDT, Tanz Luzerner Theater, Bern Ballet, Konzert Theater St Gallen, Whim W'Him Seattle, Ballare Carmel, Ballet Augsburg, Thuringer Staatsballett, Staatstheater Braunschweig Tanztheater, Kazan State Opera and Ballet, Koblenz Ballet, Ballet Regensburg, Würzburg Ballet, Siberian State Ballet, Salt Contemporary Dance USA, Arts Umbrella Dance Company Vancouver, Moving Arts Cincinnati, National Youth Dance Company and Palucca Hochschule Dresden.
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Behind the Scenes

Le Quattro

World Premiere Edmonton, Alberta, May 2019
choreography by Wen Wei Wang
Le Quattro first debuted in Edmonton in 2019 and has been revisited this season. Set to Max Richter’s bold and intricate reimagining of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, this evolution of the original Le Quattro is an invigorating rendering of Vivaldi’s work, so familiar to many. Ballet Edmonton Artistic Director Wen Wei Wang's choreographic reimagining of Richter's postmodernist recomposition takes us through the changing seasons. Using the music as inspiration, Wang’s choreography invokes images of nature and how we witness the changes in our environment.

Music: Recomposed - The Four Seasons
Composer: Max Richter
Costume design: Linda Chow
Lighting Design: Dorrie Deutschendorf
Performers: Full Company
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Persistence of Memory

World Premiere Edmonton, Alberta, 2021
choreography by Wen Wei Wang
Persistence Of Memory was created amid the 2020 pandemic; this piece reflects a time when there was no access to theatres and audiences. This work was originally a film and has been reimagined for the stage.

“As the pandemic stretched to the whole world, billions of people were separated from each other, isolated in their own spaces. Art has kept us connected; it shortens the distance between us and provides comfort, encouragement and hope.”
—Wen Wei Wang

Lighting Designer: Dorrie Deutschendorf
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Valei-me

World Premiere Edmonton, Alberta, May 2022
choreography by Diego Ramalho
Valei-me contemplates how we are influenced by where we first “belonged.” The work explores how music lives in the nervous system and reflects an unconscious sense of identity connected to place. Brazilian music drives the narrative structure of this emotional and energetic piece.

“I want the audience to be free to bring their own ideas about what I am saying and imagine their own sense of place and belonging."
- Diego Ramalho.


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SWAN (17 min)

World Premiere Vancouver, BC, 2017
choreography by Wen Wei Wang
Swan by Ballet Edmonton Artistic Director Wen Wei Wang is a remount of his masterful piece, which first debuted with Ballet BC in 2016. Inspired by the iconic characters in Swan Lake, this breathtaking work highlights Wang’s capacity to move dancers in ways that exemplify the poise and grace of the balletic dancer while expanding the vocabulary of movement to tell a familiar story through a new lens.

“SWAN, choreographed by Wen Wei Wang, proved itself as a stunning, flawless endeavour that had its audience breathless by the time the curtain closed…”
- Lords of Dogwood


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Last Words (27 min)

World Premiere Edmonton, Alberta, November 2018
choreography by Wen Wei Wang
Last Words is a poignant homage to the delicacy of life and how we face loss and move through grief. This piece is inspired by the sudden and unexpected passing of Orville Chubb, our friend and patron to the Edmonton arts community, and the husband of Ballet Edmonton board chair Trudy Callaghan. This piece is a gift to his family and a lovely narrative on the pain of saying goodbye and finding comfort in community.

Lighting design: Dorrie Deutschendorf

Dancers: Full Company
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the rite (28 min)

World Premiere Edmonton, Alberta, November 2019
choreography by Shay Kuebler
Shay Kuebler has presented, choreographed and directed his energetic, physical work for The American Dance Festival, Les Grands Ballet Canadiens, Moment Factory and Decidedly Jazz Danceworks.
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Sum of All Parts (27 min)

World Premiere Edmonton, Alberta, May 2019
choreography by Gioconda Barbuto
World Premiere May 3, 2019, Edmonton, AB

This stunning new piece by Gioconda Barbuto explores the physical dialogue that develops in a collective atmosphere. This work reflects how we shape, shift, mold and encompass space. The audience will be immersed in a physical conversation; a manifestation of orchestral movement and honest intent.
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Technical Specifications

A specific lighting plan can be developed for each venue after Ballet Edmonton receives house/technical specifications.

  • Ballet Edmonton requires a complete set of technical plans including a scaled ground plan and equipment inventories provided approximately 6 weeks prior to the performance. Please include information on the pre-hung rep plot, time available in the theatre prior to first performance including crew availability and dressing rooms.
  • The touring staff consists of a production stage manager/lighting designer, executive director/tour manager and rehearsal director/ballet master. Ballet Edmonton provides its own costumes and props.
  • The venue must provide FOH and box office staff, lighting and sound equipment, soft goods, 2 technical crew, Marley on the stage surface and dressing room facilities as noted below.

Flooring Requirements

  • Ballet Edmonton requires a stage deck with a secure black or white Marley surface. No carpet, concrete or tile.

Stage Requirements

  • 40’ by 36’ wide deck surface is ideal. We can accommodate smaller with prior discussions and approval.
  • Black backdrop
  • Black curtains
  • Minimum 3 sets of legs and borders
  • Minimum 15’ clearance overhead stage
  • Unobstructed crossover in back upstage backdrop

Lighting Requirements

  • Sufficient instruments for tips. Approximately 16 areas open white.
  • Sufficient instruments for an even down or back light wash. 3 colours plus open white.
  • Minimum of 4 shins positions per side between 36 and 50 degrees.

Dressing Rooms

  • Ballet Edmonton requires a minimum of two dressing spaces. One for women and one for men with adjoining restrooms that are not accessible to the public.
  • Dressing rooms should be equipped with mirrors, lights and clothing racks.
  • If possible, dressing rooms and backstage areas should be kept between 68 and 75 degrees.

Parking

  • If applicable, a few parking passes are to be provided to the dance company upon arrival.

Typical load in 2-day schedule

Day 1:
10 A.M.- 6 P.M.
• Load in and hanging of lights with Ballet Edmonton’s artistic director, rehearsal director, and lighting designer/stage manager.
• Level set.
• Dancers require space to rehearse elsewhere.

Day 2:
Technical class/warm up on stage (1 hour)
• Dress/Tech/Run

Contact Us

phone:

780.970.4979

office:

10221 123 St NW
Edmonton, AB, T5N 1N3
Fax: 780.453.3005

studio:

Ruth Carse Centre for Dance
11205-107 Ave
Edmonton, AB, T5H 0Y2

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