Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Mar 161718
The season continues with an evening featuring a new commission from a local talent, a world premiere from a brand new choreographic voice for Canadian audiences, and the return of an enchanting creation from a brilliant image-maker. Vancouver-based Shay Kuebler and Czech choreographer Jiri Pokorny will each share brand new works exploring dichotomies within the human body and mind, and Israel’s Adi Salant—former Co-Artistic Director of the Batsheva Dance Company—will be back to share the powerfully elegant WHICH/ONE.
New Creation
Jiri Pokorny
A new voice to the Ballet BC stage and to Canadian audiences, Czech choreographer Jiri Pokorny will create an original work exploring the vulnerability and resilience of the human body in space. The body—an instrument of perception and action—is always creating and always improvising. In this act of improvisation, where behaviour is spontaneous and immersed in the present, we are confronted by moments of simplicity within complexity. Expect a captivating creation from a visionary and inventive image-maker.
WorkNew Creation
Shay Kuebler
“One of Vancouver’s most exciting choreographers…known for an insanely cool hybrid of street and contemporary dance, martial arts, and other forms” – Georgia Straight
Vancouver-based dancer, choreographer, and multimedia artist Shay Kuebler makes his Ballet BC debut. The new commission from a stellar local talent seeks to examine the hive mind, and the momentum of the group. Certain ideas and beliefs can bind a group together and empower them—and just as easily, by a difference of expression, can also create chaos and dissention. What do we gain by existing in packs, and what is jeopardized?
WorkWHICH/ONE
Adi Salant
In WHICH/ONE, originally commissioned for Ballet BC in 2019, the talent of Israeli choreographer and former Co-Artistic Director of the Batsheva Dance Company shines bright. Salant’s work is anchored by a deep sense of presence, navigating between explosive physicality and delicate scarcity. Set to musical excerpts from A Chorus Line in addition to an original soundscape, the piece highlights the entire company and explores contrasting themes of human performance and mundanity.
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