Dance

  • LEV Dance Company’s OCD Love is intriguing dance

    LEV Dance Company’s OCD Love is intriguing dance

    When you hear the word OCD Love, you think of love as being obsessive. LEV Dance Company, presented by Banff Centre has taken this concept and created a dark twisted production. OCD Love is dark and performed in shadows. It is an examination of small movements and looks at dance as a system. It is intriguing and…

  • Alberta Ballet’s ‘All of Us’ is underwhelming

    Alberta Ballet’s ‘All of Us’ is underwhelming

    Alberta Ballet’s production of All of Us features the music of the Tragically Hip and is inspired by the band. With choreography by Artistic Director Jean Grand-Maitre, the production was set to capture the spirit of the Hip, paired with the powerful movement of ballet. It missed the mark by a mile. Though the narrative was a separate…

  • Shaping Sound’s ‘After the Curtain’ is a mixed production

    Shaping Sound’s ‘After the Curtain’ is a mixed production

    Two years ago Alberta Ballet presented Travis Wall’s Shaping Sound as part of their season and it was like attending a concert. Patrons screamed at certain sequences and both performances sold out. It was such a rousing success that Alberta Ballet secured Shaping Sound to perform their newest production After the Curtain. It is a production with…

  • Alberta Ballet’s Dangerous Liaisons presents strong movement but weak storyline

    Alberta Ballet’s Dangerous Liaisons presents strong movement but weak storyline

    Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a novel written by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, published in 1782. It has been adapted for the stage and for film. In 1985 the Royal Shakespeare Company put on Christopher Hampton’s stage version Les Liaisons Dangereuse, which starred the late Allan Rickman as the Vicomte de Valmont and in 1988 it was…

  • Dancers’ Studio West examines transformation in ‘Metamorphosis’

    Dancers’ Studio West examines transformation in ‘Metamorphosis’

    You could say that Dancers’ Studio West’s Metamorphosis is all about transformation. The performance, as part of DSW’s Dance Action Lab, is the culmination of choreographers going through a rigorous training and mentorship engagement. Metamorphosis is a collection of three pieces by three different choreographers.