By Holly Harris The Royal Winnipeg Ballet took a deep dark dive into a classic Brothers Grimm fairytale as it launched its 84th season with the Canadian debut of Angelin Preljocaj’s inky black Snow White. The 105-minute (with no intermission) narrative ballet had its world premiere by the French choreographer’s own company in 2008, with
by Jennifer Fournier For classical ballet, an art form born in the court of the aristocracy, rank is foundational. Hierarchy is embedded in the canonical works, populated as they are by peasants and gypsies, and dukes and princesses, and in the companies themselves where the principal dancers quite literally reign, onstage and off. But while