The best I’ve seen in a long time!
by Jenn on 2021-11-30National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts - OttawaOutstanding! The dancers were very committed and conveyed great emotion.
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Outstanding! The dancers were very committed and conveyed great emotion.
Wonderful performance. NAC staff soooo helpful and upbeat. Missed having a printed program.
Ballet BC never disappoints. It crosses dance boundaries to give us innovative choreographies. This performance had an outstanding theatre ballet cooperation “The Statement “ that had the audience standing & cheering as it touched our minds, melded expressive choreography with text & music & made us laugh as well as recognize its serious theme.
Amazing to be in a beautiful theatre to watch a live performance. The performance was wonderful! So happy to have been a member of the audience.
it was great performance with surprise of live music and beautiful voice. Looking forward to March 2022 performance
I am very grateful to BC Ballet for the opportunity to attend there performances. I have been lucky to attend almost each performance several last years. I do not expect that each performance should be amazing and very grateful for each work regardless my opinion. I will not comment on the first two performances: Stadium and After We Glow, they did not impress me at all. The Lean To: the amazing music, and the idea to combine the alive, beautiful music and ballet is gorgeous. The costumes are awkward. Garden: the music, the costume, the intention of the creator, Mr. Walerski and beauty of the visual impression were very attractive. It reminded me Henri Matisse's panting: "Dance". However, neither technical performance, no emotional/soul expression of dancers in Lean to and Garden reached the level of quality of chosen music or/and the art of Matisse. I think Lean To and Garden are lacking a bit the depth, but still it was interesting to watch these two. Thank you for such gifts.
Well, the opening of BC Ballet's newest season was met with mixed emotions. It was wonderful to be back at a live dance performance and feel the energy of the audience. The anticipation was certainly not disappointed by the performances given by the dancers by any means. However, if you came to watch ballet, you pretty much had to wait until the fourth piece, Garden. If the new direction is to continue so deeply entrenched down this contemporary path, the troupe may want to consider a name change.
I really enjoyed myself. The performance was incredible, the accompaniment was perfect and the simple set design was beautiful.
Has it really been 20 months since their last live performance? You wouldn't know it as every aspect of the performance was tight! Well done Ballet BC !
I brought my grandaughter to the performance and I throughly enjoyed it. First time we have attended a modern ballet. The dancers were so fluid together and in perfect sync. Each performance was quite lengthy so we were in awe how they could perform at that high level for such a long set. They were beautiful to watch It was such a unique style I highly recommend!