{"id":75618,"date":"2022-06-14T16:12:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=75618"},"modified":"2022-06-14T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:12:34","slug":"scoop-national-ballet-canada-taking-distinctive-program-new-york-city-center-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/06\/14\/scoop-national-ballet-canada-taking-distinctive-program-new-york-city-center-march-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP |The National Ballet of Canada Taking Distinctive Program To New York City Center In March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_75619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75619\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/NBC-tour-NEWS-2022.jpg\" alt=\"Image courtesy of the National Ballet of Canada\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of the National Ballet of Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The National Ballet of Canada will go on tour to the New York City Center from March 30 to April 1, 2023. The program will include Crystal Pite\u2019s <em>Angels\u2019 Atlas<\/em> with David Dawson\u2019s <em>Anima Animus<\/em> and Kenneth MacMillan\u2019s <em>Concerto<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to be bringing The National Ballet of Canada dancers and orchestra back to New York in 2023, as a part of my inaugural season,\u201d said <strong>Hope Muir<\/strong>, Joan and Jerry Lozinski Artistic Director. \u201cAfter more than two years away from the international stage, we are all excited to return to City Center with these three acclaimed works. The repertoire showcases our accomplished and versatile artists, and I look forward to sharing this distinctive program with New York audiences,\u201d said Muir.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Program<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The company will perform three of its acclaimed productions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Angels\u2019 Atlas<\/strong><\/em> was created for the NBC by Canadian choreographer <strong>Crystal Pite<\/strong> in March 2020. The award-winning ballet explores the fragile nature of life, set to a score by Owen Belton, along with choral works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Morten Lauridsen;<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Anima Animus<\/strong><\/em> is a collaboration with British choreographer <strong>David Dawson<\/strong>, a first for the NBC. The ballet explores the dichotomy of extremes, and opposites, using Carl Jung\u2019s designation of anima and animus as parts of the collective unconscious, and set to Ezio Bosso\u2019s<em> Violin Concerto No. 1<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Concerto<\/strong><\/em> was created by Scottish choreographer <strong>Kenneth MacMillan<\/strong>, putting Dmitri Shostakovich\u2019s <em>Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major<\/em> to life on stage in an impressive ensemble work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Toronto audiences will have a chance to catch <em>Anima Animus<\/em> for its Canadian premiere just before the company hits the road for the Big Apple. The last time the National toured to NYC was back in 2008, performing Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n\u2019s <em>Soldiers\u2019 Mass<\/em>. A decade earlier in 1998, the company performed the work of Canadian choreographers James Kudelka, Dominique Dumais and John Alleyne.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Ballet of Canada will go on tour to the New York City Center from March 30 to April 1, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":75619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,445,39,63],"tags":[39438,2346],"yst_prominent_words":[35502,38322,13340,14397,7070,7140,14902,7941,7261,10457,13922,6687,7059,8295,10515],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/NBC-tour-NEWS-2022.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-jFE","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75620,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75618\/revisions\/75620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75618"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=75618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}