Ballet BC

Ballet BC
The Queen Elizabeth Theatre, home of Ballet BC
General information
Name	Ballet BC
Previous names	Ballet British Columbia
Predecessor	Pacific Ballet Theatre Ballet Horizons^[1]
Year founded	1986
Founders	Jean Orr David Y. H. Lui Sheila Baggs
Artistic Director	Annette av Paul
Location	Vancouver, BC
Principal venue	Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Website	http://balletbc.com/
Senior staff
Chief Executive	Branislav Henselmann
Company Manager	Francesca Fung^[2]
Artistic staff
Artistic Director	Emily Molnar
Resident Choreographers	Cayetano Soto
Rehearsal Director	Christophe Dozzi^[2]

Ballet BC is a contemporary ballet company located in Vancouver, British Columbia.

History

Ballet BC was founded as Ballet British Columbia by Jean Orr, David Y. H. Lui^[3] and Sheila Baggs in 1986, with Annette av Paul as first Artistic Director. The company adopted its current name after financial problems and a restructuring in 2009.^[1]^[4]

Artistic direction passed to Reid Anderson, Patricia Neary and Barry Ingham and in 1992 to John Alleyne, who introduced a program with original choreography including his The Faerie Queen^[5] in 2000 and dances by other Canadian choreographers. Alleyne was followed by Emily Molnar after the reorganisation in 2009.^[1]

As of April 2015, the company is the only professional ballet company in British Columbia.^[1] It is based in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.^[6]

Repertoire

Ballet BC presents a repertoire of contemporary ballet.^[7]

The company opened the 2015 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, presenting three dances each by a different choreographer, including Twenty Eight Thousand Waves by their own resident choreographer Cayetano Soto.^[8] The company travelled on their 30th anniversary tour in late 2015 and 2016.^[9]

References

1 2 3 4 Strate, Grant; Forzle, Richard (4 March 2015). "Ballet British Columbia". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
1 2 "Team". Ballet BC. Archived from the original on 7 November 2016.
↑ Lederman, Marsha (30 September 2011). "David Lui: The man with the flowing cape brought ballet to life in B.C.". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Archived from the original on 16 November 2015.
↑ "Ballet British Columbia optimistic despite financial woes". CBC News. Archived from the original on 16 November 2015.
↑ Stuart, Lena Marie (25 October 2002). "Ballet British Columbia - The Faerie Queen". Selected reviews. criticaldance.com. Archived from the original on 6 March 2003.
↑ "Contact us". Ballet BC. Archived from the original on 7 November 2015.
↑ "Vision". Ballet BC. Archived from the original on 11 August 2015.
↑ Ross, Ken (27 June 2015). "Dance Review: Ballet BC jolts Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival back to life". Masslive. Springfield, Massachusetts. Archived from the original on 8 August 2015.
↑ "Ballet BC: 30th Anniversary Tour". Banff Centre. Archived from the original on 16 November 2015.

External links

Official website

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