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Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal
MUSIC: Traditional to popular songs, baroque music, ethnic rhythms and
original compositions
WORLD PREMIERE: May 30, 2002,
Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts,
Montréal
29 dancers
85 minutes (without intermission)
“The works are indeed so energised and so
physically alluring, that one
can’t help but
enjoy them. Les Grands Ballets is without
doubt a quality
company, abundantly energetic
and well-rehearsed… Their collective work
also
paid excellent dividends in the celebrated
chair dance… delivered here with
detonating
power and to near perfection.” (Dance Europe, Londres)
Since its creation, this phenomenally successful performance, part of Les
Grands Ballets
repertoire, has left critics and audiences gasping. This complex and finely
chiselled work
owes its quality to the alchemy with which every element is suffused.
Starting with excerpts from seven different pieces (Zachacha, Sabotage Baby,
Black Milk, Passomezzo, Anaphaza, Queens of Golub and Mabul), Mr. Naharin
has succeeded in creating a single work, unique and whole, that at no point
feels like an arbitrary collage.
Ohad
Naharin is choreographer and artistic director of the Batsheva Dance
Company, in Tel Aviv. He danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company and
with Maurice Béjart’s Ballet of the 20th century. He made his choreographic
debut in 1980 at Kazuko Hirabayashi’s studio in New York. Naharin’s works
feature in the repertories of companies as prestigious as Nederlands Dans
Theater, the Frankfurt Ballet, the Opéra de Lyon, the Ballet Nacional de
España, the Cullberg Ballet, the Opéra de Paris Ballet, and Les Grands
Ballets Canadiens de Montréal.
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal has enriched Montréal with its
choreographic creations since 1957. Intercultural and pluralistic, this is
the nature of the institution. In 2000, Mr. Pankov took the helm as Artistic
Director; under his guidance andbecause of his extensive international
experience, the company took a new turn. From the moment of his arrival, he
has transformed Les Grands into a creative and repertory company that
reflects current trends in ballet, and that remains very active both at home
and abroad, from the United States to the Middle East and Europe. An
incubator for new talents, the company today embodies innovation and daring.
Les Grands Ballets offers an alternative vision of the world through an art
form it holds dear: one that is more emotional, theatrical, and exciting,
than ever.
Photos of the touring production.
The company tours with a minimum of 53 people: Artistic Director, 2
Ballet Masters, 35 dancers, Artistic Coordinator, Technical Director, Stage
Manager, Lighting Designer, Technical Assistant, Wardrobe, 6 Technicians, Touring Manager, Pianist, Physiotherapist.
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal tours with its sets, costumes
and all other related production items. The company may bring additional
lighting and sound equipment to add to the existing technical equipment
available in local theatres. The average weight for all the equipment is
between 8,000 and 12,000 kilos depending on the productions.
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Mr. Simkin is a Broadway producer of such Tony award winning hits as I Am My Own Wife, Death of a Salesman, Long Days Journey Into Night and the The Crucible. He has also produced I Am My Own Wife and Death of a Salesman on the West
End of London. Toby developed Broadway concepts and strategies within the China region that secured a national theatre network and enabled Broadway touring productions to be presented throughout China. In Beijing, Shanghai,
Wuhan, Nanjing, Suzhou, Changsha, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Nanning and Hangzhou and elsewhere in China - 42nd Street, FAME the musical, Disney's
production of Elton John and Tim Rice's AIDA. In Taiwan, starring Brad Little, Jekyll & Hyde. Jekyll and
Hyde performed in Taipei, Tainan, Taichung and Kaohsiung. In Seoul Korea, Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington New Zealand, The Rocky
Horror Show. He has worked extensively in the broadway internet and broadway marketing industry throughout Australia, the U.S., England and Canada, with more than 120 shows, ranging from the Broadway shows of Blood Brothers and Victor/Victoria, to the live concert spectacular of The 3 Tenors to international tours of The Shanghai Ballet. He produced a critically acclaimed production of The Long & The Short & The Tall and was Stage Manager of the Royal Command Performance of The Tempest, starring Keith Michell, which opened the XII Commonwealth Games Festival in 1982. Mr Simkin produced a recording of a new musical The Promised Love in Leningrad, Russia during the coup. Over the last twelve years Mr. Simkin has worked in the entertainment technology sector, both for Microsoft Corporation and as an entrepreneur creating over 150 theatrical internet web sites for the vast majority of Broadway shows, joint technology ventures and bulletin board systems. Mr. Simkin pioneered bringing broadway theatre to the Internet with a Bulletin Board Service in 1989 called ShowCall in conjunction with the League of American Theatres & Producers. Since then, Toby has produced and developed websites for broadway shows, broadway plays, broadway musicals and generally, the majority of broadway theater. Mr. Simkin pioneered bringing Broadway theater to the Internet in 1995 with a web site forthe broadway show Victor/Victoria. In March of 1994 he built his first web site. In April of 2000, Mr. Simkin sold the Internet company he
founded in 1995, Theatre.com. Mr. Simkin was Associate Producer of the Tony Award nominated Broadway play revival of Arthur Miller'sThe Crucible starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney. He is Associate Producer ofLong Day's Journey Into Night starring Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Dennehy and Philip Seymour Hoffman. In addition, Toby is managing all broadway internet and broadway marketing initiatives online for Long Day's Journey. He is currently involved with the Broadway production of I Am My Own Wife. In conjunction with Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment, Toby produced 4 Broadway showsdirected/choreographed by Wayne Cilento for Celebrity Cruises to launch the Constellation in Europe. Broadway Plays include Long Day's Journey Into Night and The Crucible. Mr. Simkin is currently Executive Producer of Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment, responsible for the development and production of new business in both the legit, cruise, technical & web industries and foreign markets, and producing Savion Glover improvography throughout the world. He also served as Chief Technology Officer of Broadway Digital Entertainment, managing the broadway internet and broadway marketing for the Broadway Theatre Archive and Broadway Tonight series, and is a consultant to Music Theatre International, the leading licensor of the majority of broadway musical theatre, responsible for all broadway internet and broadway marketing.
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Ohad
Naharin is choreographer and artistic director of the Batsheva Dance
Company, in Tel Aviv. He danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company and
with Maurice Béjart’s Ballet of the 20th century. He made his choreographic
debut in 1980 at Kazuko Hirabayashi’s studio in New York. Naharin’s works
feature in the repertories of companies as prestigious as Nederlands Dans
Theater, the Frankfurt Ballet, the Opéra de Lyon, the Ballet Nacional de
España, the Cullberg Ballet, the Opéra de Paris Ballet, and Les Grands
Ballets Canadiens de Montréal.
