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RWB’S 69TH SEASON WILL IGNITE YOUR SENSES
(March 26, 2008; Winnipeg, Manitoba) – Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet has just unveiled its 2008/09 season highlighting a number of audience favourites including season opener Carmina Burana, one of the RWB’s biggest hits.
“This season will showcase an assortment of RWB audience favourites,” says André Lewis, RWB Artistic Director. “We open the season with Mauricio Wainrot’s Carmina Burana a much cherished contemporary work, full of sensuality and emotion. For the holiday season we bring back the storybook hit Peter Pan, followed by the all-time classic Romeo & Juliet in March. To close the season, we revive Itzik Galili’s visual sensation Hikarizatto coupled with a new work choreographed by Canadian choreographer Peter Quanz. ”
CARMINA BURANA & SEVENTH SYMPHONY
October 22 – 26, 2008
Mauricio Wainrot’s Carmina Burana is a sensual powerhouse of modern ballet set to Carl Orff’s 20th century masterpiece, featuring an epic cast of dancers, musicians and singers. The Winnipeg Free Press called Wainrot’s masterpiece “high drama, startling symmetry & ecstatic, shimmering, unadorned dance.” Carl Orff’s classic score is based on manuscripts that were found in an ancient German monastery and written by Christians who abandoned their faith in pursuit of sins of the flesh.
The program also features Toer van Schayk’s Seventh Symphony. Toer van Schayk's powerful choreography to Beethoven's symphonic masterwork challenges the dancers' technique, artistry and musicality. A beautiful work for twenty dancers, this piece represents the "ecstatic striving to the light at the end of a dark tunnel, hopeful and convinced of a radiant new future."
PETER PAN
December 19 – 28, 2008
Get hooked again! The massive hit of the 2006 holiday season returns! Peter Pan is a magical flight, filled with family entertainment, fantasy and marvellous adventure.
Choreographed by Jorden Morris, former RWB principal dancer and current Associate School Director, and set to the music of Sir Benjamin Britten, Eric Coates, Ron Goodwin, Sir Edward Elgar, and Montague Phillips Peter Pan tells the story of Peter, who invites Wendy to Neverland to be the mother of his gang of Lost Boys. Many adventures ensue, including the near-death of Tinker Bell and a climactic confrontation with Peter’s nemesis, the pirate Captain Hook.
“Peter Pan is one of the prettiest ballets in the RWB repertoire…from the starry skies behind the nursery window to the misty forests of Neverland and the colourful bridge deck of Hook’s Jolly Roger.” The Globe and Mail, 2006
ROMEO & JULIET
March 11 – 15, 2009
What is more beautiful than falling in love for the first time...again? Shakespeare's timeless tragedy is given a beautiful and thought-provoking telling in this masterpiece of dance and drama.
Rudi van Dantzig's Romeo & Juliet has been heralded as a ballet which truly displays the emotion of Shakespeare’s play. Adapted and premiered by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 1981, this production is the most beautiful ballet in the RWB’s repertoire. The splendour of sixteenth-century Verona is recreated by the magnificent sets and costumes of Toer van Schayk in this full-length ballet that demands the most of a dancer's personal capacity to create a role.
Don’t miss the dazzling premieres of Vanessa Lawson as ‘Juliet,’ and Jaime Vargas and Gael Lambiotte as ‘Romeo,’ as well as Tara Birtwhistle in one of her signature roles.
"A ballet with all the catalytic power of a multimillion-dollar mega-musical.”– Winnipeg Free Press, 2004.
HIKARIZATTO Plus!
May 6 -10, 2009
The RWB revisits audience favourite Hikarizatto, where rhythmic drumming accompanies Galili’s trademark off-balance, hyper-kinetic movement. Galili is considered to be “a master of space and timing of bodies,” says Michelle Mann of Dance Europe. First performed by the RWB in 2006, his work is known for its diversity as he pushes the boundaries of linking dance to human movement and emotion.
“Galili creates kaleidoscopic dazzle with varied lifts, sky-high kicks & male-female entanglements happening simultaneously on different depth planes.” – Winnipeg Free Press, 2007
The program also features the world premiere of Peter Quanz’ first ballet for the RWB. Quanz is a Canadian prodigy who won the 2005 Clifford E. Lee Award and was the first Canadian to create a ballet for the legendary Kirov Ballet.
BALLET IN THE PARK
July 23 - 25, 2008
Ballet is the Park, the RWB’s summer tradition, celebrates its 36th year. Held at the Lyric Theatre in Assiniboine Park, the show features a mixed repertoire of works showcasing dancers from the RWB Company and students from the RWB’s Professional Division.
Premier Sponsor for Peter Pan is Great-West Life. Sponsors for Winnipeg performances include Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Investors Group Inc. and The Richardson Foundation. Ballet in the Park is sponsored by Manitoba Lotteries Corporation. The RWB acknowledges Delta Hotels as the company’s official hotel, Air Canada as the official airline and Carlson Wagonlit Travel as the official travel agency. The RWB also acknowledges the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council and Arts Stabilization Manitoba, Inc. for their generous and ongoing support.
Subscriptions are currently available until May 12 for renewing subscribers to guarantee their seats before becoming available to the general public on May 19. Subscriptions range from $100 to $240 for adults and are available at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Customer Service Office at (204) 956-2792 or in person at 380 Graham Avenue.
Single tickets for all performances will go on sale September 2 and are available through the RWB Customer Service Office at 380 Graham Avenue or by calling (204) 956-2792 or 1-800-667-4792. Tickets are also available through Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster or by calling (204) 253-ARTS (2787). Groups of ten or more can secure the best seats available at the best prices. Call the Group Sales Manager at (204) 957-3494 or email groupsales@rwb.org.
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For more information or interviews, contact: Heather Saxton, RWB Publicity Manager at hsaxton@rwb.org or (204) 957-3447.
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