Together, we can commission new works.
Spotlight Series Brings Ballet to You Spotlight Series launched successfully this winter, offering digital footage of live performances compiled in programmes of two to three works each in a particular style or theme. Captured at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts before the pandemic, the recordings are available online for 30 days each. The virtual season will also feature commissioned works in a variety of choreographic styles. As previously announced, these include ballets by Kevin A. Ormsby, Jera Wolfe and Choreographic Associate Alysa
Pires, along with newly secured works from Jennifer Archibald, Vanesa Garcia-Ribala Montoya, Principal Dancer Brendan Saye and Principal Dancer and Choreographic Associate Guillaume Côté. In each case, the creative process will incorporate the idea of a virtual audience by experimenting with camera angles, editing and other cinematic techniques. Filming of all new works and several others from the existing repertoire has been postponed due to the provincial lockdown. However, The National Ballet of Canada
Orchestra was able to record the music for Ormsby’s new ballet, Trase Pa, and for George Balanchine’s Apollo before lockdown began. We look forward to resuming filming for Spotlight Series when emergency orders are lifted. Until then, we are pleased to share the world premiere of a new film by Canadian director Ben Shirinian that captures excerpts from Robert Binet’s beautiful immersive ballet, The Dreamers Ever Leave You, shot at Harbourfront Centre last fall before Toronto moved into lockdown.
national.ballet.ca/Spotlight-Series Tanya Howard in rehearsal for Trase Pa. Photo by Karolina Kuras. 6
The National Ballet of Canada
Preview Winter 2021
