Gregory Oh, keyboardist-around-town and leader of new music experimenters Toca Loca, just sent me a short clip from latest instalment of Halo Ballet, from a Young Centre workshop.
With the help of composer Aaron Gervais, the group has been having fun in matching music with the onscreen acrobatics of Halo heroes and villains. As far as I know, the first public performance of the Halo Ballet was at the Music Gallery’s X Avant festival in the fall of 2010.
If video games can have sequels, so can ballets.
John Terauds
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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