An Evening With Crystal Pite - Nederlands Dans Theater
Friday January 3, 2014 7pm - 8:40pm (1 Hour 40 Minutes)
Ticket giveaway ended on December 29
Movie / Film All Ages
Presented by Orpheum Entertainment
[email protected]
(678) 348-0503
Doors open at 6:30pm
Note: Due to the bad weather tonight's screening is cancelled. You may return your tickets to their place of purchase for an exchange for a future show or a full refund.
Ballet 1: Parade (World Premiere)
Ballet 2: Frontier
Renowned for her flowing, organic and poetic style, Crystal Pite has succeeded in bringing her surprising and innovative dance approach to a wide audience. Fascinated by familiar storylines of love, conflict and loss, and the body’s role in providing the illustrative shape of those stories, in Pite’s vision, life is an epic tale which she strives to reflect in her ballets through the viewer’s own tale.
Both of the works by Crystal Pite center around the theme of the Frontier – the border between what we know and what we do not know. The first half of the performance looks inward, towards the frontiers of what we know about the human mind. The second ballet looks outward to the frontier of the universe and explores the dark and invisible forces that shape and evolve our galaxy and ultimately, us.
In Parade the central image is of a procession of clowns and a marching band. The actual “parade” is a reflection of the imagination, absurdity, and ritual, and the play between the disorganized clowns and the hyper-ordered, rank-and-file marching band exemplifies the tension between instinct and intellect, rational and irrational, unconscious and conscious.
Experimenting with light and shadows, Set Designer Jay Gower Taylor has established two co-existing environments – an interior and an exterior space separated by walls or scrims. The interior space contains a visible, recognizable and known world, with the relationships and story-lines that are inherent. The exterior space portrays a limitless frontier, inhabited by shadows. Pite ‘s task is to try to connect these two worlds to emphasize a sense of something existing beyond what is visible or tangible.
In Frontier, “Dark matter” and “dark energy” are the terra incognita of our day. Making up roughly 96 percent of the observable universe, dark matter can be perceived and proven, but no one knows yet what it actually is and no one has seen it. What one can see is the effect it has on galaxy speeds, structures and evolution. The ballet explores the parallel between what we do not know about the universe, and what we do not know about the mind.
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Presented by Orpheum Entertainment
[email protected]
(678) 348-0503
Doors open at 6:30pm
Note: Due to the bad weather tonight's screening is cancelled. You may return your tickets to their place of purchase for an exchange for a future show or a full refund.
Ballet 1: Parade (World Premiere)
Ballet 2: Frontier
Renowned for her flowing, organic and poetic style, Crystal Pite has succeeded in bringing her surprising and innovative dance approach to a wide audience. Fascinated by familiar storylines of love, conflict and loss, and the body’s role in providing the illustrative shape of those stories, in Pite’s vision, life is an epic tale which she strives to reflect in her ballets through the viewer’s own tale.
Both of the works by Crystal Pite center around the theme of the Frontier – the border between what we know and what we do not know. The first half of the performance looks inward, towards the frontiers of what we know about the human mind. The second ballet looks outward to the frontier of the universe and explores the dark and invisible forces that shape and evolve our galaxy and ultimately, us.
In Parade the central image is of a procession of clowns and a marching band. The actual “parade” is a reflection of the imagination, absurdity, and ritual, and the play between the disorganized clowns and the hyper-ordered, rank-and-file marching band exemplifies the tension between instinct and intellect, rational and irrational, unconscious and conscious.
Experimenting with light and shadows, Set Designer Jay Gower Taylor has established two co-existing environments – an interior and an exterior space separated by walls or scrims. The interior space contains a visible, recognizable and known world, with the relationships and story-lines that are inherent. The exterior space portrays a limitless frontier, inhabited by shadows. Pite ‘s task is to try to connect these two worlds to emphasize a sense of something existing beyond what is visible or tangible.
In Frontier, “Dark matter” and “dark energy” are the terra incognita of our day. Making up roughly 96 percent of the observable universe, dark matter can be perceived and proven, but no one knows yet what it actually is and no one has seen it. What one can see is the effect it has on galaxy speeds, structures and evolution. The ballet explores the parallel between what we do not know about the universe, and what we do not know about the mind.
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$20 Adult
$15 Student
$15 Child
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• At the door starting at 6:15pm
Purchase Tickets Online
$20 Adult
$15 Student
$15 Child
Where to buy Tickets
• Online at ticketpro.ca
• By phone at 1-888-311-9090
• Home Hardware, Windsor
• Box of Delights, Wolfville
• Wilsons Pharmasave, Kentville
• Wilsons Pharmasave, Berwick
• Bridgewater Pharmasave, Bridgewater
• Alderney Landing Theatre, Dartmouth
• PSP Information Kiosk, Halifax
• United Bookstore, Halifax
• Video Difference, Halifax
• Video Difference, Bedford
• All other Ticketpro outlets
• At the door starting at 6:15pm
Purchase Tickets Online
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