Polyphonia

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in Polyphonia

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Entertainment

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• ballet
• dance
• modern
• contemporary
• choreography
• performance

[ballerinette1]

there is nothing 'too ballet for the modern world'. any dance with technical and artistic excellence is a form of expression worth watching. do you truly wish to murder a form of art because you live in a 'modern world'?

[Tiburonian]

Superb. My favourite 'contemporary' ( in the meaning, 21st Century) choreographer. Many so called 'modern' choreographers can create a work for a classical ballet company, but very few can utilize the classical ballet vocabulary to create a meaningful, moving, interesting and beautiful work for a company. (Whether 'modern' or 'traditional' where tradition equates to 'like Petipa, Ashton, MacMillan, Balanchine etc.).

Merely my opinion -

[dogsrcool099]

i like this:)

[butifarra61]

he should stay w/ nycb and create as much as he can. He is lucky to have that great amount of dancers and $. I only love ten ballets of the many mr. B. created. Only those that changed the dance world will be seen again and again.

[Bicseko]

pretty

[smileywoman]

Just beautiful!

[mediacityballet]

Wow - so seemless, effortless and graceful. A wonderful performance.

[devildevine]

I saw the matinee yesterday at the NBC and loved this section as well. Such beautiful choreography, and quality of movement.

[dudi137]

To continue, these dancers have dedicated their lives to moving well, and I want to have the time and space to see the fruits of that labour on an individual scale. This is the sort of ballet I would love to see again and again.

[dudi137]

I saw this last night at the National Ballet of Canada. My breath kept catching in my throat. I must say, I love the emphasis on partnering and the occasional solitary dancer. I find that it allows the audience to truly appreciate the skill and beauty of the individual dancers. I know a strong company must also be able to dance together, but those are rarely the parts of any ballet that stay with me (other than the unison that begins and ends Wainrot's Carmina Burana).

[Tournesol143]

I saw this at Les Grands in Montreal and it was amazing. Although, perhaps I should qualify this: to appreciate it, you would need an attention span of greater than five seconds. So, the video game/Idol generation would not appreciate this.