By Robin J. Miller Wen Wei Wang’s choreography to Max Richter’s reworking of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is, in a word, magnificent. Performed by Ballet Edmonton — the Alberta company Wang has directed since 2018, on tour in Victoria, BC — his Le Quattro reached into the heart and squeezed. The 2019 work opened a
By Michael Crabb It’s mid-October, almost six weeks until the premiere of the National Ballet of Canada’s two-million-dollar aspiring blockbuster, MADDADDAM, and much remains to be done. “There were four weeks I was really making material,” says the acclaimed British choreographer Wayne McGregor. “I was trying to invent, to get stuff out of my head,
by Kaija Pepper Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has attained mythic status since it was published in 1818. We all know some version of this dark story about a scientist who creates life from the body parts of corpses, and the horror that results when he abandons his physically repulsive creation. Left to cope alone with the