Ballet Kelowna returns to Coquitlam next week with five dances to celebrate the country's 150th year.
The works for 150 Moves — to be featured as part of a province-wide tour for the company, including a stop at the Evergreen Cultural Centre on Feb. 10 — were created by emerging and veteran Canadian choreographers.
Among the pieces to be performed is Dénouement, a pas-de-deux commissioned by Karen Kain, the artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, and conceived by Matjash Mrozewski to showcase the skills of the National dancers at the 8th international competition for the Erik Bruhn Prize.
The Coquitlam audience will be treated to another pas-de-deux based on the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene, as imagined by choreographer Joshua Beamish.
Ballet Kelowna's artistic director and CEO Simone Orlando also designed a tribute to the late country music legend Johnny Cash with her dance In Studies of Cash. That will juxtapose with a dance by John Alleyne, the former artistic director of Ballet BC, who choreographed Split House Geometric, which is set to staccato movements.
The program wraps up with a new piece titled Canadiana Suite that uses Oscar Peterson's composition of the same name; the group number is by Orlando and Donald Sales and recognizes the country's regions and cultures with classical ballet and jazz styles.
Tickets for the show are $37/$32/$16 by calling the Evergreen box office at 604-927-6555 or visiting evergreenculturalcentre.ca.
