Doppeling
Choreography: Simone Orlando
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Concerto in D minor
Former Ballet BC dancer Simone Orlando created Doppeling in 2009 as a full-company work for Ballet BC’s inaugural Choreographic Series. A whirlwind of complex ideas, the ballet shifts effortlessly from its investigation into the contrapuntal relationship of space and the body, while tickling the senses with a clever statement on gender and the history of the classical form.
Diversion
World Premiere
Choreography: Robert Glumbek (Toronto)
Music: Senking • Ólafur Arnalds • Marconi Union
Robert Glumbek, a rising Canadian choreographic talent and recipient of the Clifford E. Lee Award, has created works for Ballet Mannheim, Toronto Dance Theatre and ProArteDanza, among others. A former soloist with The Great Theater of Opera and Ballet in Warsaw and a member of Desrosiers Dance Theatre and Ballet Mannheim, this is Glumbek’s first creation for Ballet BC. The Dance Current says Glumbek’s choreographic style “…must be exciting to perform—sensuous, sinuous with a ferocity that commands attention.”
Parole Sospese (Words Suspended)
Canadian Premiere
Choreography: Walter Matteini (Italy)
Music: Anton Webern • Domenico Scarlatti
Watch video from World Premiere 2007
One of Italy’s most talented choreographers, Walter Matteini created
Parole Sospese in 2007. The work for 11 dancers is a poetic journey into
the world of the Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), the most
celebrated narrative poet of the Italian high Renaissance. Matteini
takes Ariosto’s inspirational words and melds them into an episodic
world of imagery where the soul takes flight in the unconscious realm
of the imagination. Matteini has created works for companies such as
Ballets de Monte Carlo, Ballet Lyon and Aterballetto.
In association with Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Vancouver.
Music: Anton Webern • Domenico Scarlatti
In association with Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Vancouver.