A WILD CSÀRDÀS OF REVENGE: Calgary International Film Festival’s Presentation of “A Halába Tábcoltatott Leány (The Maiden Danced to Death)”

A WILD CSÀRDÀS OF REVENGE

Calgary International Film Festival’s Presentation of
A Halába Tábcoltatott Leány (The Maiden Danced to Death)

Laszlo Zsolt (Gyula Udvaros) and Bea Melkvi (Mari) on the Banks of the Danube.

Hungarian and Slovenian folk dances are so intricate, it takes years of practice to acquire the necessary precision and dexterity before the dancers can proceed at the breakneck speed of a professional company. One misstep, one forgotten element of movement, one careless moment of distraction and a Rube Goldberg’s progression of disasters unspins. When everything goes perfectly, however, the dance leaves viewers breathless, pulses racing like the dancers themselves.

University of Calgary Fine Arts Department of Dance: MAINSTAGE DANCE, April 18 – 20

University of Calgary Fine Arts Department of Dance presents:

MAINSTAGE DANCE

Thursday, March 18 – Saturday, March 20, 2010
8:00 PM
University Theatre
at Craigie Hall, University of Calgary

2940 University Way NW

Mainstage Dance is the student performance showcase for the University of Calgary’s Fine Arts Department of Dance. Every year, Mainstage is one of the highlights of the University’s fine arts season.

Four professional choreographers, Melanie Kloetzel, Maya Lewandowsky, Melissa Monteros and Hannah Stilwell, are working with the students to reveal the passion, technical skill and perseverance of the dance program’s participants.

The four pieces are described so:

Melanie Kloetzel’s piece, Evidence, looks at an age of corruption and the difficulty of knowing what to believe. Maya Lewandowsky’s The Hero’s Journey, is a piece for 12 dancers exploring a journey where the restless soul leaves home to find something greater than itself. Monteros’ piece The Story of Us explores love, attraction and the mystery of a long term relationship. Hannah Stilwell’s piece Sound of Body will play with the juxtaposition of sometimes frantic interiors with composed exteriors.

“All of the professional choreographers are enjoying the energy and the process of creation with our young talented dancers,” explains Melissa Monteros, Mainstage Dance 2010 Artistic Director.

TICKETS: $15 Adults, $10 Students/Seniors (University of Calgary students free, ID required)
Call Campus Ticket Centre at (403) 220-7202, or purchase at the door.

DO ANIMALS CRY with Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods, One Night Only

Theatre Junction GRAND presents

DO ANIMALS CRY

By Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods (Belgium)

Saturday March 13th, 2010
8:00 PM
Theatre Junction GRAND
608 – 1st Street, SW

Cry if you want to: it’s family time now! In Do Animals Cry Meg Stuart and her performers (Damaged Goods,from co-producers, Théâtre Garonne du Toulouse, Théâtre de la Ville du Paris, Wolksbühne am Rosa Luxemberg Platz of Berlin, PACT Zollverein of Essen, and Kaaitheatre of Brussels) challenge the greeting commando called family — a frantic reunion where loved ones reminisce for the last time before falling to pieces. Featuring six dancers addressing the family dynamic with tension and unspoken comfort, this show is a melting pot of scenes and situations with movement as the main ‘trigger.’

Tickets: Theatre Junction, (403) 205-2922, or at the box office 608 – 1st Street, SW.

(X-posted to Calgary Theatre)

SONGS OF A WAYFARER and THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS at Jubilee, March 25 – 27

Alberta Ballet in collaboration with Edmonton Opera presents:

SONGS OF A WAYFARER
and
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS

Calgary: March 25 – 27, 2010
Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
1415 – 14 Avenue, NW, Calgary.

Choreographer, Emily Molnar’s Songs of a Wayfarer, set to Gustav Mahler, and Alberta Ballet Principal Dancer, Yukichi Hattori’s theatrically explosive The Seven Deadly Sins, composed by Kurt Weill combine opera and ballet.

Tickets in person: Alberta Ballet Box Office 341-17 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB T2S 0A5.  Monday to Friday 9 am – 5 pm (Except performance days 9 am – 3 pm.)

Telephone: (403) 245-4549

2010: A TAP ODDITY by Joshua Hilberman at Theatre Junction GRAND, March 18, 20, 23 – 28

Decidedly Jazz Danceworks presents:

2010: A TAP ODDITY

March 19, 20, 23 – 28, 2010
Theatre Junction GRAND
608 – 1 Street, SW

A new Live Musical Show Choreographed by guest artist, Joshua Hilberman — “a loose cannon of modern tap” — Decidedly Jazz Danceworks company jazz choreographer, Sarisa Figueroa, and featuring dancers, Deanne Walsh and Kaleb Tekeste. Decidedly Jazz promises this to be a “freewheeling, playful evening of rhythmic rapture.”

Tickets available by phone:
DJD Box Office, 403-245–3533
(9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Monday – Friday)

Tickets available in person:
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks
1514 – 4 Street SW
(9am – 5pm Monday – Friday)

ROSANNA TERRACCIANO Form Fusion: Contemporary and Flamenco at DSW, March 19 – 20

Dancers’ Studio West presents:
ROSANNA TERRACCIANO
Form Fusion: Contemporary and Flamenco

March 19 – 20, 2010
Tickets: Adults: $20/ Students: $15
(403) 244-0950 or at tickets@dswlive.ca

Dancers’ Studio West
2007 – 10 Avenue SW
Calgary AB T3C-0K4

LIZT ALFONSO DANCE CUBA at Epcor, March 26

The EPCOR Centre for Performing Arts along with Cuba’s Ministry of Culture and Fidel Castro present:

BD&P World Music Series

LIZT ALFONSO DANCE CUBA

Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba: Fuertza Y Compàs; De Terra y Aire, Photo Credit: Jorge V. Gavilondo.

Jack Singer Concert Hall,
105 – 8th Avenue, SE, Calgary, AB (next to the Olympic Plaza)
March 26, 2010
8:00 PM

Ethnic Cuban dance is characterized by its history which lends it the Caribbean elements of Flamenco, Ballet and Dance with Spanish and Afro-Cuban rhythms. Created in 1991, the all-female Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba combines these elements in a refreshing and original style under the direction and choreography of this company’s director, Lizt Alfonso. Expect technical finesse, precise ensemble work, individual flair and complex footwork.  The show features superb musicians and soloists, incuding Flamenco singing, guitar and keyboard accompaniment.

Tickets: (403) 294-9494
Online or in person at the Epcor Centre

SHEN YUN CLASSICAL CHINESE DANCE CO. at Jubilee, March 30 – April 1

Falun Dafa Association of Calgary
& New Tang Dynasty Television Canada

SHEN YUN CLASSICAL CHINESE DANCE
& PERFORMING ARTS CO.

March 30 – April 1, 2010
Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium

Shen Yun shows feature traditional dances and songs, accompanied by a live orchestra and singers. The size of each production varies, but traditional Chinese culture inspires everything from the choreography to the exquisitely crafted costumes and projected backgrounds that evoke temples, breathtaking landscapes, scenes of heaven, or imperial courts.

The styles vary from fine classical Chinese dances which only highly trained dancers could perform, ethnic or folk dances which revealed regional forms of movement and grace, and storytelling narrative dances.

Shen Yun‘s performances are extremely popular. Prices vary from $30 – $200, and can be ordered through Ticketmaster.

Classical Chinese dance has its own complete set of training methods in foundational skills, a strict regimen for perfecting bearing and form, and means of training for skill sets such as jumps, turns, and flips, as well as extremely demanding aerial techniques, culminating in an enormous dance system. The aerial movements of classical Chinese dance contain a wealth of high-flying dives, dexterous leaps, and diverse spins.

It is the deeper resonances of traditional Chinese culture, however, that imbue a dancer’s movements with such rich expressive power. The dancer is thus capable of not only portraying a given figure’s disposition or mood, but even the vivid expressions unique to a certain age, whatever the land or time.

— Shen Yun website

Tickets Selling Quickly for Alberta Ballet’s Elton John Tribute “Love Lies Bleeding”

Ballet and Pop Music Go Well Together

Love Lies Bleeding, a ballet set by the acclaimed contemporary dance company, Alberta Ballet, to the music of rock stars, Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin, have been going like gangbusters, selling a record 2,160 tickets in one day.

Sir Elton John with Jean Grand-Maître and Alberta Ballet Members

Alberta Ballet,  which performed at the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, and whose ballet The Fiddle and The Drum, set to music by Joni Mitchell, received such warm praise, has broken its ticket sales records.  To keep up with the demand, Alberta Ballet added two matinee performances in Calgary before the Box Office opened at 9:00 am on Monday. Even then, half the tickets were sold before the day was over.

Alberta Ballet’s artistic director, Jean Grand-Maître, impressed Sir Elton with Joni Mitchell’s ballet. The rock star asked him to express the essence of his music through dance, and the result is Love Lies Bleeding.

Love Lies Bleeding premieres in Alberta in May 2010 at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary.
Alberta Ballet Box Office:
403.245.4549 in Calgary or online at www.albertaballet.com

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