By Kaija Pepper With a masterwork by William Forsythe to open with, and a rousing finale to Ravel’s suspenseful Boléro by an up-and-comer, Ballet BC’s season started on a high note. Opening night on November 2 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre gave us three works by three very different choreographers: William Forsythe’s Enemy in the
By Kristen Lawson Ballet BC closed their home season, at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre May 11-13, with two bold and playful works that premiered in Los Angeles on May 6. Both featured the entire company, putting the dancers through their paces using song, dance, and theatrical elements all at once. The choreographers clearly had fun
By Jenn Edwards Two pillars of Vancouver’s Indigenous dance community, Margaret Grenier and Starr Muranko, are Ballet BC’s 2022-2023 artists in residence. Working in tandem, they are meeting with company dancers once a month to explore intersections between contemporary ballet and the Indigenous forms they practice as artistic directors of Dancers of Damelahamid and Raven