Ballet BC
At Ted Shawn Theatre: Aug 13 - Aug 17
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Ballet BC
Festival Week 8 | Wednesday, August 13 – Sunday, August 17 | Ted Shawn Theatre
First Appearance Since 2019 | U.S. Premiere
Formed in 1986 and based in British Columbia, Ballet BC is well-known in Canada and around the world for pushing the physical and emotional boundaries of contemporary dance with performances that are “visually stunning and emotionally profound” (PBS). The company returns to the Ted Shawn Theatre stage for the first time since 2019 with a program that includes the U.S. premiere of BOLERO X by Shahar Binyamini, SWAY by the company’s artistic director Medhi Walerski, and the U.S. premiere of Obsidian by Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber.
Ballet BC presents a diverse repertoire in its international tours, as well as its regular runs at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver. Collaborating choreographers include William Forsythe, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, Medhi Walerski, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, Johan Inger, Imre and Marne van Opstal, Adi Salant, Jiří Pokorný, Micaela Taylor, Marco Goecke, Fernando Hernando Magadan, Dorotea Saykaly, and Aszure Barton. “We are a company,” says Ballet BC, “that aims to create dance at its most essential: visceral, powerful, thought-provoking, and transformative.”
“Visually stunning and emotionally profound.”
