Ballet BC to unveil three new commissions at What If, May 12 to 14
Program boasts new commissions by Germany’s Felix Landerer, and Canadian talents Out Innerspace Dance Theatre and Dorotea Saykaly
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Ballet BC dancer Jacob Williams. Photo by Marcus Eriksson
Ballet BC will close its season on May 12 to 14 with three world premieres in an evening of commissions from new voices to the company.
On the mixed program titled What If, German choreographer Felix Landerer will explore the very human need for positivity and optimism in a world of chaos. His new Everything will be ok plays on a phrase that has lost its credibility over the last few years, and yet is still the one we wish to hear the most. Everything will be ok is based on the deeply embedded need for optimism and a positive perspective on the future. Landerer is the artistic director of Hanover’s Landerer&Company, and from 2011 until 2017 he was resident choreographer for Scapino Ballett Rotterdam.
Elsewhere on the program, Vancouver’s own dynamic Out Innerspace Dance Theatre is unveiling Strange Attractor. In the new work, artistic directors David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen contemplate the ideas of creation and destruction, searching for connection between supposed opposites. Out Innerspace’s works have toured nationally and internationally, and have been awarded the 2014 CanDance Creation Fund and the 2019 Crystal Dance Prize; they’re serving as associate artists at Agora de la Danse in Montreal for the next three years.
And Ballet BC will also reveal a new creation by the first recipient of the Emily Molnar Emerging Choreographer Award, Dorotea Saykaly. In RELIC, the rising Canadian dance artist examines image-making through a sci-fi lens—the artificial and organic, isolation and intimacy, human and animal. Saykaly started her professional career with Compagnie Marie Chouinard in 2006 and has worked extensively with visual artists and in film.
What If takes place at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. You can find more information and tickets here.
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