Dance Victoria Footnotes 74 (Spring 2023)

Dance at the Royal Dance Theatre of Harlem

Mixed Repertoire

March 24 + 25 • 7:30 pm

Royal Theatre

Running Time: 1 hour 46 minutes (including intermission)

Ballet Edmonton

Music in Motion

Co-produced by Dance Victoria + Victoria Symphony

April 23 • 2:30 pm

April 24 • 7:30 pm

Royal Theatre

Running Time: 1 hour 27 minutes (including intermission)

Malpaso Dance Company

Mixed Repertoire

April 28 + 29 • 7:30 pm

Royal Theatre

Running Time: 1 hour 36 minutes (including intermission)

Photos (clockwise from top): Malpaso Dance Company photos © Pedro Suarez and by Rose Eichenbaum; Ballet Edmonton photo © Cooper & O'Hara; Dance Theatre of Harlem photo © Theik Smith

The Cycle of a Season

Dance Victoria brings the World’s Best Dance to the Royal Theatre and supports the development of new dance for the international stage from its studios in Quadra Village. As a non-profit charitable society, Dance Victoria operates with the mission to promote the appreciation of dance by developing and presenting diverse local, Canadian, and international artists, and by engaging the community in the celebration of dance. DanceVictoria.com

Dance Victoria Board:

President: Colette Baty

Vice-President: Maggie Bartold

Treasurer: Julie Robinson

Secretary: Kayleigh Harrison

Directors: Stacey Horton, Joost Pelt, Carrie Smart

Staff:

Executive Director: Gillian Jones

General Manager: Bernard Sauvé

Operations Manager: Shireen McNeilage

Marketing Manager: Tracy Smith

Production Manager: Holly Vivian

Studio Bookings Manager: Kiera Shaw

Accounting: Wendy Mahon

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Footnotes is written by Tracy Smith and Gillian Jones (unless otherwise noted)

Planning a season typically begins one to two years before we have the pleasure of welcoming a company to the Royal Theatre. There are annual conferences and showcases where Bernard Sauvé and I see new work at the national and international level, as well as opportunities to experience performances by the diverse and talented artists in our own region. It’s a process that begins, ideally, with being moved by a piece that we see in person. At the recent International Association of Blacks in Dance Festival, which Bernard and I attended in Toronto last month, there were several moments we turned to each other, excitedly, after a performance and said, “What did you think of that?” If a performance aligns with our core programming values — artistic excellence, diversity, innovation, community connection — we continue the conversation. What follows are many months of information gathering and negotiation around timing, technical requirements, budget, and of course, how the company may elevate our vision for the new season.

As we wrap up Dance Victoria’s season planning process for 2023/24, I genuinely can’t wait to share what’s to come with you, our supporters and friends. You’ll find the full line-up in this issue of Footnotes. Dance Victoria subscribers will receive your official announcement and renewal form by mail this month. If you’re not yet a subscriber, do not “fear of missing out”! New subscribers are invited to secure their seats starting May 1. I hope you’ll consider joining our community of dance enthusiasts, and take advantage of the many benefits of subscribing, including saving up to $146 off regular ticket prices, freedom to keep your favourite seats from year to year, and flexibility with ticket exchanges.

Lucky for us, the season planning cycle never stops! This month, Bernard and I will attend the Coastal Dance Festival of regional and international Indigenous artists, produced by Dancers of Damelahamid in partnership with The Anvil Centre in New Westminster and the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. I will then join a convening of international presenters in Houston, TX, organized by the National Center for Choreography at The University of Akron (NCCAkron), for a presentation of the acclaimed Ragamala Dance Company. Our group will be participating in a series of facilitated conversations centering on the question: “What constitutes American dance?” I look forward to sharing what I learn.

With warmest regards,

Gillian Jones, Executive Director

Malpaso Dance Company photo © Judy Ondrey

Gillian Jones by Jo-Ann Richards Works Photography

Photos (clockwise from top left) Compagnie Hervé KOUBI photo © Pierangela Flisi; Nrityagram Dance Ensemble & Chitrasena Dance Company photo © Karthik Venkatraman; Ballets Jazz Montréal

photo © Sasha Onyshchenko; Gibney Company Artistic Associate Zui Gomez photo © Michael Slobodian

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GIBNEY COMPANY CONTEMPORARY • NEW YORK, USA

November 17 + 18, 2023 • 7:30 pm • Royal Theatre

Mixed Program

Subscribers save up to $146!

Gibney Company is a world-class contemporary dance company led by Gina Gibney and Gilbert T. Small II. Based at Gibney, a dance and social justice organization founded in 1991, the Company underwent an ambitious reinvention in 2020 following a major donor gift. Since then, commissioned choreographers have included Bryan Arias, Rena Butler, Alan Lucien Øyen, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Micaela Taylor, Sonya Tayeh, and Yue Yin. The Company’s repertory also includes works by renowned international choreographers Johan Inger, Ohad Naharin, and Sharon Eyal of L-E-V Company in Israel. The program features Eyal’s SARA

“The troupe’s superpower is clear: its strong and versatile dancers, artists who appear to be physically capable of anything.” NEW YORK TIMES

COMPAGNIE HERVÉ KOUBI CONTEMPORARY

February 2 + 3, 2024 • 7:30 pm • Royal Theatre

The Barbarian Nights (or The First Dawns of the World)

Choreography: Hervé Koubi

• FRANCE/ALGIERS

Music: Sir Georg Solti & Wiener Philharmoniker | W.A. Mozart | Gabriel Fauré & Traditional Algerian music

After virtual performances during our pandemic seasons, we knew we had to find a way to bring this incredible company to Victoria! Thirteen street dancers from Algeria, Morocco, France and Burkina Faso perform with breathtaking energy. Wearing headgear inspired by Swarovski, the dancers evoke the humanity of the early settlers of the Mediterranean basin, whirling dark skirts and moving with stunning fluidity against a musical backdrop of Mozart, Fauré and traditional Algerian melodies.

“A touch of theatrical magic!” NEW YORK TIMES

NRITYAGRAM DANCE ENSEMBLE

CLASSICAL INDIAN • BANGALORE, INDIA & SRI LANKA

March 8 + 9, 2024 • 7:30 pm • Royal Theatre

Āhuti - In collaboration with Chitrasena Dance Company

Choreography: Surupa Sen

Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and Chitrasena Dance Company celebrate centuries of Indian and Sri Lankan cultures, blending traditional Odissi and Kandyan dances within contemporary contexts. Nrityagram Dance Ensemble has the unprecedented distinction of making The New York Times’ Best Dance of the Year list two years in a row. A sensual and lyrical evening of vibrant movement, storytelling and live music.

“One of the most luminous dance events of the year!” NEW YORK TIMES

BALLETS JAZZ MONTRÉAL

CONTEMPORARY • MONTRÉAL, CANADA

April 26 + 27, 2024 • 7:30 pm • Royal Theatre

Essence

Choreography: Ausia Jones, Crystal Pite & Aszure Barton

Following sold-out Dance Victoria performances of Dance Me to music by Leonard Cohen, Ballets Jazz Montréal (BJM) returns with a program by all-female choreographers: Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue by Crystal Pite; We Can’t Forget What’s His Name, a new creation by Ausia Jones; and Les Chambres des Jacques by Aszure Barton.

“With their explosive, powerful and rapid dance style, the dancers delighted the audience. At the end, the applause was frenetic.” VERLAGSHAUS JAUMANN

Gibney Company photo © Joseph DiGiovanna; Compagnie Hervé KOUBI photo © Frédérique Calloch; Nrityagram Dance Ensemble & Chitrasena Dance Company photo © Karthik Venkatraman; Ballets Jazz de Montréal photo © Sasha Onyshcheno

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UKRAINIAN SHUMKA DANCERS + Victoria Symphony Nutcracker

CLASSICAL BALLET + FOLK • EDMONTON, CANADA & KYIV, UKRAINE

December 1 + 2, 2023 • 7:00 pm • Royal Theatre

December 2 + 3, 2023 • 1:00 pm • Royal Theatre

Nutcracker with the Victoria Symphony

Choreography: Viktor Lytvynov & John Pichlyk | Music: Pyotr IIyich Tchaikovsky

Featuring principal dancers of the Kyiv Ballet (National Ballet of Ukraine) and the famed Virsky National Dance Ensemble. Shumka’s Nutcracker blends the grace and lyricism of classical ballet with the strength and power of Ukrainian folk dance. This classic tale of young Clara and her dream Prince incorporates Ukrainian traditions and symbols, and costumes designed by National Opera of Ukraine’s Maria Levitska. Tchaikovsky’s legendary score is performed live by the Victoria Symphony.

“A perfect first Nutcracker for many generations… A powerful and beautiful thing.”

CIRCA

CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS • BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA

February 10, 2024 • 7:30 pm • Royal Theatre

Humans 2.0

Choreography: Yaron Lifschitz & the Circa Ensemble

EDMONTON JOURNAL

Ten bodies appear in a flash of light. They move in harmony for a fleeting moment and then descend into a sinuous trance. Towers grow and decay, bodies leap and are caught, as physical limits are pushed to their extreme. Circa’s internationally acclaimed Humans 2.0 is a symphony of acrobatics, pulsing with music by composer Ori Lichtik and revealed in Paul Jackson’s dramatic lighting. Created by circus visionary Yaron Lifschitz, Humans 2.0 is intimate, primal and deeply engaged with the challenge of being human.

“Courageous, ground-breaking, risk-taking.” ARTSHUB,

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Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Lindsey Donnell by Rachel Neville

Dance Theatre of Harlem

Mixed Repertoire

March 24 + 25

Friday + Saturday • 7:30 pm

Royal Theatre

Tickets DanceVictoria.com or 250-386-6121

Music: James Blake (@jamesblake)

Lighting Design: Brandon Stirling Baker

Costume Design: William Forsythe, Katy A. Freeman (@cici.quinn)

Original Sound: Benjamin Young

Staging/Choreographic

Assistance:

Jodie Gates, Noah Gelber, Benjamin Peralta

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Constraints Make You More Creative

Renowned choreographer William Forsythe, famous for his 20-year tenure at Ballet Frankfurt and for mentoring countless dancers and choreographers, was commissioned to set a new work on Dance Theatre of Harlem called Blake Works IV: The Barre Project

The barre represents the foundation of ballet training. It’s a ritual that most dancers continued to do at home during COVID, something to literally hang on to from their normal daily routine. The barre is rarely seen on stage, but it is the inspiration for Forsythe’s The Barre Project series, dedicating the work “for all those who have sustained themselves with a barre in any form.”

Constraints can make you more creative — at least they did for Forsythe. His Blake Works I: The Barre Project was choreographed to seven songs by Grammy-nominated artist James Blake’s The Colour in Anything album for the Paris Opera Ballet — his first work for the company since 1999 — premiering in July 2016 at Palais Garnier. When the world came to a stop in 2020, Forsythe began thinking about a new iteration of The Barre Project Forsythe and Tiler Peck, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, had wanted to work together for years, but their schedules never coincided until COVID-19 disrupted everyone’s lives. They met via Zoom in 2020, with three other dancers joining the project in August and September: Roman Mejia (New York City Ballet); Brooklyn Mack (formerly with Washington Ballet and a guest with English National Ballet); and Lex Ishimoto (a freelance dancer). Forsythe was at home in Vermont and began to choreograph with them remotely, turning to the electronic music of artist James Blake for the score. Since COVID was preventing in-theatre experiences, he created it for film as a sequel to his Paris Opera project. The choreography for Blake Works II: The Barre Project was created entirely using Zoom with all rehearsal, filming, and assembly taking place bi-coastally and remotely. The team eventually came

together in an empty theatre in Los Angeles to film it in September 2020.

In all of his barre projects, Forsythe uses a metal handrail as a theatrical prop rather than a support. The barre defines the space for the choreography, a reference point for Forsythe’s five movement studies. Dance Theatre of Harlem requested that our local technical crew in Victoria build the handrail and paint it black.

Forsythe created Blake Works III: The Barre Project for Boston Ballet again using Blake’s music. In each of the musical movements, instead of featuring only the entire bodies of dancers, a video projection focused on the intentional placements of hands on the barre in each section.

Now, with Dance Theatre of Harlem and Blake Works IV: The Barre Project, Forsythe continues to evolve his series with choreography inspired by Blake’s Lullaby for My Insomniac and other works. Forsythe has created newly choreographed sections that highlight the diverse and formidable talents of the company and is a version of The Barre Project that is unique to Dance Theatre of Harlem alone. We can’t wait to experience this Victoria Premiere!

Watch the Dance Theatre of Harlem dancers rehearsing Blake Works IV: The Barre Project on our Instagram page @dance_victoria FN

Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Amanda Smith. Photo © Theik Smith

Ballet Edmonton photo © Nanc Price

Ballet Edmonton: Music in Motion

Co-produced by Dance Victoria and Victoria Symphony

April 23 • Sunday • 2:30 pm

April 24 • Monday • 7:30 pm

Royal Theatre

Tickets DanceVictoria.com or 250-386-6121

Giuseppe Pietraroia, conductor

Wen Wei Wang, choreographer

Dance Victoria partners with the Victoria Symphony each season to bring a gorgeous Nutcracker performed to live music, conducted by the beloved Giuseppe “Joey” Pietraroia. Now we’re partnering to co-produce a whole new Music in Motion program with the amazing artists of Ballet Edmonton!

Music in Motion features new choreography by Ballet Edmonton Artistic Director Wen Wei Wang to Max Richter’s treatment of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Wang is also collaborating with composer Ian Cusson to bring movement to his instrumental telling of the legend, Le loup de Lafontaine

Cusson is a composer of art song, opera and orchestral work. Of Métis and French-Canadian descent, his work explores Canadian Indigenous experience including the history of the Métis people, the hybridity of mixed-racial identity, and the intersection of Western and Indigenous cultures. This musical composition is inspired by Le loup de Lafontaine by Thomas Marchildon, a cautionary tale that takes place in the small French-speaking Ontario community of Lafontaine in 1902.

The Lafontaine community lies on the banks of Georgian Bay and has long been a meeting place of diverse peoples. During the time of Marchildon’s story, various settler and Indigenous communities lived in close proximity, rarely intermixing. Each had a deep mistrust of the other. When a wolf arrives, they unite with the common goal of ridding the community of the intruder.

However, the wolf isn’t the monster the people think it is. It is gentle with children, keeps to itself, and except for killing sheep for food, it does no harm. The wolf becomes the ultimate scapegoat: it is hunted and killed, with the community coming together to celebrate a Mass in honour

of its death. The community is rid of the intruder and is united — but at a cost. The final tender moment of the work will resonate and linger long after the curtain falls.

In the fall of 2022, Wen Wei Wang shared with the Dance Victoria and Victoria Symphony teams, some of his early ideas for bringing this story to life through movement. They’re powerful, fascinating, and emotional. We cannot wait to experience the fusion of Cusson’s musical narrative, performed by the magnificent Victoria Symphony, married with Wang’s incredible choreographic vision.

In between the two dance performances in the program, the Victoria Symphony will perform Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite (Ma mère l’oye suite), his fond tribute to children’s fairy tales.

You can get a sense of what’s in store from Quattro, an earlier interpretation of The Four Seasons, set by Wang and performed by Ballet Edmonton, at vimeo.com/744795304. FN

Vivaldi/Recomposed by Max Richter • The Four Seasons Recomposed

Ravel • Ma mère l’Oye Suite

Ian Cusson • Le loup de Lafontaine – Suite for orchestra in three scenes

Ballet Edmonton photo © Michael Slobodian

Ballet Edmonton photo © Michael Slobodian

Malpaso Dance Company

photo © Rose Eichenbaum

Malpaso Dance Company Mixed Repertoire

April 28 + 29 • 7:30 pm

Royal Theatre

Tickets DanceVictoria.com or 250-386-6121

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A Victoria Premiere! Malpaso Dance Company from Havana, Cuba, comes to the Royal Theatre for the first time in April with a contemporary dance program of four works. Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin’s 30-year-old masterpiece, Tabula Rasa, has been reset on the company, with duos, trios and quartets of dancers, performing contemporary movement atop intentional storytelling. Indomitable Waltz by Brooklyn-based choreographer, Aszure Barton (who was born and raised in Canada), explores the emotional range of human relationships through black-clad figures that emerge from the dark to dazzle in the light, moving in and out of groups of ever-shifting sizes. Lullaby for Insomnia, by company founder and associate artistic director Daile Carrazana, is an intimate solo, inspired by the work of the pianist and singer Bola de Nieve, an iconic personality of Cuban culture while Mats Ek’s woman with water is a fascinating study of temptation.

Pre-Show Chats

Presented by

Join us in the lobby of the Royal Theatre at 6:50 pm before Dance Theatre of Harlem and Malpaso Dance Company at the Friday and Saturday performances — a lively conversation about the evenings’ works with members of the companies we’re presenting, hosted by Dr. Allana Lindgren, dance historian and Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Victoria. Dance Theatre of Harlem Artistic Director and founding member, Virginia Johnson, will be our pre-show chat guest on March 24 and 25. We’re so lucky to have her with us before she retires in June. Johnson has been the company’s Artistic Director for 12 years, preceded by a staggering 28 years as a company member and Principal Dancer.

For woman with water, the set is minimalist with a woman, a man, a green table, a pitcher of water, and a drinking glass. At one point, the woman pulls the green table with a bent foot; at another moment, standing with a curved back, she stares forebodingly at the glass of water on the table. She is cool and distant with the man who comes on stage after her and pours a glass of water, which she stares at forebodingly. Will she drink the water? What does this mean? The choreography is performed exquisitely to the atmospheric and discordant score by Swedish band Fläskkvartetten. woman with water always has audiences talking animatedly afterwards, with their personal interpretations of what this dance work could mean! We look forward to hearing your reactions to this work, and the whole Malpaso program, which will conclude our 2022/23 Dance at the Royal Season.

Interested in learning more? You can watch videos of the works in the Malpaso program at DanceVictoria.com FN

Support Local Dance Artists Through Our Spring 50-50 Raffle

50/50 tickets are on sale in the lobby of our performances at the Royal Theatre during intermission and after the shows. Proceeds from our raffle support the many artists whose projects are developed in Dance Victoria’s studios and then performed across the country and around the world. Tickets are also available at DanceVictoria.com

Tickets are $10 each or a book of five for $40. With fewer than 2,400 printed, your odds are great, plus you’ll be supporting Victoria’s vibrant dance community.

Total Number of Tickets: 400 @ $10, and 2,000 @ 5 for $40

Sales end: May 19, 2023, 5:00pm

Draw: May 23, 2023, 2:00pm

Draw Location: Dance Victoria Studios, 111–2750 Quadra Street, Victoria, B.C.

Chances are 1 in 2,400 (total tickets for sale)

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Malpaso Dance Company

photo © Ivo Roberto Baelli

Row 1: Kathy Lang, Aiden Cass, Sarah Hutton, David Ferguson Row 2: Lee Ingram, Constance Cooke, Amber Downie-Back Row 3: Kiera Shaw, Kayla Henry, InterdepenDance Collective

Row 4: Luciana Freire D’Anunciação, Jordan Dalley, Kemi Craig, Kelly McInnes

KIN: Illuminating Hopeful Ways Forward

May 26 • 7:00 pm

May 27 • 1:00 pm + 7:00 pm

Dance Victoria and Noble Riot Dance Theatre will co-present KIN, a double-bill of contemporary dance that is a confluence of gymnastics, acrobatics, and live music.

KIN will feature new works by Kayla Henry/Christina Medina, and Constance Cooke.

Illuminating hopeful ways forward, Luminaries and Kairos explore themes of eco destruction in the man-made world, while finding hopeful ways forward.

KIN will be performed at Dance Victoria Studios, with free childcare onsite for the Friday, May 26 show. Visit DanceVictoria.com for ticket information. FN

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Subscription Renewals

Renew your subscription for Dance Victoria’s 2023/24 Season by 5:00 pm, Thursday, April 6, if you want to retain or upgrade your current seats. You should receive your renewal form in the mail this week and we encourage you to renew as soon as possible (especially if you are requesting a change) so that we know we have reached you and we can remove you from our reminder list. To renew, you may phone the Royal and McPherson Box Office at 250-386-6121 with your order number, or visit Monday through Friday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. (The Royal closes for lunch from 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm daily.) If you have not renewed by 5:00 pm on April 6, your seats will be released. The Royal and McPherson Box Office will be closed for seat reallocations from April 10 to 28 and will open again on May 1 for new subscriptions.

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When Love Helen Pickett

Blake Works IV: The Barre Project William Forsythe

Higher Ground Robert Garland

Ballet Edmonton CONTEMPORARY BALLET

Co-produced by Dance Victoria + Victoria Symphony

April 23, 2023 • 2:30 PM

April 24, 2023 • 7:30 PM

Music in Motion

Malpaso Dance Company CONTEMPORARY

April 28 + 29, 2023 • 7:30 PM

Lullaby for Insomnia Daileidys Carrazana

woman with water Mats Ek

Indomitable Waltz Aszure Barton

Tabula Rasa Ohad Naharin

Dance Theatre of Harlem photo © Theik Smith; Ballet Edmonton photo © Michael Slobodian; Malpaso Dance Company photo © Nir Arieli