Toronto’s Ballet Creole has put together an energetic dance show with one remounted piece and one new choreography
This past Wednesday afternoon I was lucky enough to be invited into a rehearsal of Ballet Creole’s next show River. What a wonderful treat to watch the company in action only a week before they open at the Fleck Dance Theatre.
Two full-length works will be included in the evening. The first, entitled Trouchka, is a remount of a piece which was originally part of the company’s 2011 season. Artistic Director Patrick Parson has used Igor Stravinsky’s Petrouchka as his inspiration. The cast of 7 dancers take on the roles of giant puppets which have come to life.
Here is what’s going on in Toronto theatre this week. There are several great shows to catch for the week of April 1st, 2013. ** Shows marked with the double asterisks and in red are the ones that make Wayne, our Managing Editor, wish he could exist in multiple parallel universes so he could check them all out. Continue reading Eye-Catching Toronto Theatre for the Week of April 1st, 2013→
Soup Can Theatre’s double bill A Hand of Bridge &No Exit an exciting pairing for the Toronto Stage
Soup Can Theatre made an apt choice in pairing the “micro” opera A Hand of Bridge with Sartre’s No Exit. This seemingly loosely connected double billing of an opera with an existentialist play turned into an intuitive match in the interpretive hands of A Hand of Bridge director Pratik Gandhi and No Exit director Sarah Thorpe.
Ballet Jörgen Canada brings the timeless classic Swan Lake to the Toronto stage
It isn’t often that I get to watch classical ballet anymore. It was a treat to get to attend opening night of Ballet Jörgen Canada’s Swan Lake at the Betty Oliphant Theatre on Wednesday night. There’s something very nostalgic for me about watching these traditional stories come to life. It makes me feel like a kid again.
For anyone that doesn’t know the story of Swan Lake, it is your traditional boy-meets-girl tragic love story, just with some added magic and allusions to beastiality for pizzaz. Prince Siegfried is told by his mother that he must choose a bride to wed. Upset by her demand he goes hunting and comes across a flock of swans. As he aims to shoot, one of the swans suddenly becomes a beautiful young woman whom he falls in love with. The young woman, Odette, explains that she is a princess who has been cast under a spell by the sorcerer Von Rothbart. She is destined to be a swan by day and a woman by night until her true love is found and commits to her forever.
Mooney on Theatre is giving away one pair of ticketsto the event NOW Talks with Jason Priestley, happening at the Jane Mallet Theatre, St Lawrence Centre for the Arts (27 Front St. E.), on March 28th at 8pm.
