Performances & Highlights
Join Ballet Kelowna for our 7th Spring Season in our signature "inno-classical" style, featuring bold, innovative modern dance, alongside the timeless beauty of classic ballet.
Spring 2010
Golden Summerland Revelstoke Williams Lake Quesnel Prince George Fort Nelson Fort St. John Grande Prairie Terrace Kitimat Prince Rupert Coquitlam Vancouver Princeton Kelowna (Download Dates and Venues here)
Feel the artistic tension, drive and excitement of our Spring 2010 Season. Influential and ground breaking ballets that helped shape dance in Canada are featured along with formative ballets commissioned by Ballet Kelowna or created by our own Artistic Director David LaHay.
Canadian master choreographer Brian Macdonald’s seminal ballet "Double Quartet" was inspired by the music of Franz Schubert and Canadian composer R. Murray Shafer. "Double Quartet" is a perfect marriage of music and movement that has garnered national and international praise from audiences and critics alike. Both "Etude" by Vancouver choreographer Kay Armstrong (which won international acclaim) and Ottawa choreographer Nesta Toumine’s hypnotic and ethereal "Gymnopedies" explore the dynamic fusion of classical and contemporary dance. Vancouver choreographer Joe Laughlin created "Butterfly Affect" in 2006 and reworked it especially as a pointe ballet for six dancers for Ballet Kelowna. "Butterfly Affect" displays Joe's unique stylization of movement and witty musicality and has touched audiences everywhere. David LaHay’s lyrical and romantic "In Arden Woods" rounds out this all Canadian program.
Fall 2009 & Jan 2010
"Classic Contrast" premieres in Kelowna on September 25th and 26th before touring to eight locations in the Okanagan and Kootenays this fall and Courtenay, Vancouver Island in January. Check out the full tour.
Soar with Ballet Kelowna as we present four uplifting, powerful and romantic Canadian choreographed ballet works. Explore the fragility of Elizabethan love with Artistic Director David LaHay's "In Arden Woods" set to a new work by renowned pianist Arnold Draper. Enjoy the light-hearted romance of 'Le Banc" by guest Choreographer Paul Destrooper, Artistic Director of Ballet Victoria set to the Bach Cello Suites. By contrast, swing with the earthy, jazzy blues of Vicki St. Denys’ “Indigo Moods” and delight in the classic beauty of the Pas de Trois, Swan Lake.
