Looking Forward to MADDADDAM & Victoria The company is continuing to invest in the previously announced commissions of Wayne McGregor’s MADDADDAM and Cathy Marston’s Victoria in order to bring them to the Four Seasons Centre stage. Thank you for being a part of The National Ballet of Canada’s development of these lustrous productions of fresh story ballets with our international collaborators. These productions will truly elevate the company’s standing on the world stage as a hub of unparalleled excellence and excitement in ballet. We look forward to opportunities to share the process of bringing these productions to life. MADDADDAM is a collaboration of international significance, with Wayne McGregor, the multi-award-winning choreographer of Chroma and Genus, joining forces with one of the world’s greatest living writers, Margaret Atwood, to create a brand new full-length work, a co-production with The National Ballet of Canada and The Royal Ballet in London. This new work is based on the MADDADDAM trilogy of books by Atwood which includes, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and MADDADDAM. To translate the books to the stage, McGregor has reassembled the creative team behind his landmark 2015 ballet Woolf Works, inspired by the work of Virginia Woolf, including influential composer Max Richter, who recently created the soundtrack for the 2019 film Ad Astra. Also joining him again are lighting designer Lucy Carter, design firm We Not I, film artist Ravi Deepres and dramaturg Uzma Hameed. As the basis of the production, Wayne McGregor is drawing on the themes of genetic manipulation, historical conceptualizations of the future of humanity and the push and pull between Canada’s urban and rural environments. McGregor and his design team have been inspired by the geometry of the city of Toronto, as well as exaggerated symbols of genetic reproduction such as the giant egg-like shapes and domes of Canada’s Expo ‘67 Man and His World exhibits. Margaret Atwood. Photo by George Whiteside. Wayne McGregor. Photo by Johan Hallberg-Campbell.
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