“I saw a reproduction of it at the 1988 Olympics here, and it blew everyone’s mind, including mine. It was an outrageous thing. His version has an orgasm in the end, and people couldn’t believe what they were seeing. Plus, it was just so strange and, I …

Alberta Ballet artistic director and choreographer Francesco …

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“A lot of adventure happens, and Puss In Boots arrives on the scene and steals the shoes, and The Three Musketeers come back and take the shoes back, and the adventures continue until the end, where he finds Cinderella and the wedding happens, and all the …

For dancers, some as young as 18 years, it means hours of rigorous training, memorizing sheets of music and detailed choreography, to be perfected and performed within weeks to hundreds of audience members who have been waiting months to watch renditions …

The program is curated by artistic director Francesco Ventriglia, and fitingly, is a majestic tribute to the power of place – guiding the audience through an immersive journey of feeling and form that stirs the soul. The show features four pieces chosen …

“There are so many key attributes that dancers need to be successful, from artistic expression to movement quality to dynamics, strength and also technical detail,” she says. “The thing about Yoshino that was frequently observed by her teachers was that …

And yet, regardless of the sheer volume of dance this show has to offer, the centrepiece still fell squarely on Act II, featuring Quixote’s shimmering dream within his fantasy: the Kingdom of Dryads, one of the most moving scenes in all of classical ballet …

“Mariko on stage is a diamond,” he said. “I worked with her for only one year, and I have to say I feel very grateful that I had this opportunity in my career to meet an artist like her. The generosity, the knowledge, the amount of talent that this artist …