Aspen Santa Fe Ballet not to be missed!
by Chfmomma on 2015-05-26National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts - OttawaThis ballet troupe is beyond amazing. They hold you so spell bound that you almost forget to breathe during the entire performance. These 3 ballets did not use sets, but instead used lighting, costuming, music and more importantly dance to to draw you into the story or feelings that they were weaving. Each dancer had a chemistry with everyone else on the stage that was so obvious that the audience could feel it. I loved how each dancer was important to the ballet. Male dancers were given equal billing and were sometimes even more important. They were not there just to perform lifts and to back up the female dancers. Instead the focus was on their ability to dance. The athleticism of both sexes was proudly on display. This was my husband's very first ballet and he said that it was the perfect ballet troupe to start with. We will be buying tickets anytime that they come back to Ottawa and if I lived in either Aspen or Santa Fe we would be season ticket holders!