Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite created\u00a0Angels\u2019 Atlas\u00a0<\/em>for The National Ballet of Canada in March 2020 to rapturous reviews. The ballet unfolds against a morphing wall of light that carries the illusion of depth and a sense of the natural world. Here, the dancing body becomes a sign of humanity\u2019s impermanence and \u2013 equally \u2013 its vitality within a vast, unknowable world.\u00a0<\/a>Set to original music by Owen Belton and choral pieces by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Morten Lauridsen,\u00a0Angels\u2019 Atlas\u00a0<\/em>is a profound new work from one of the world\u2019s leading contemporary choreographers.<\/p>\n Created in 1934,\u00a0Serenade\u00a0<\/em>was George Balanchine\u2019s first original ballet created in the US and one of many he set to the music of his beloved composer Tchaikovsky, in this case the beautiful, mournful\u00a0Serenade for Strings,\u00a0<\/em>Op. 48. Today,\u00a0Serenade<\/em>\u00a0is an iconic Balanchine work, especially for its unforgettable opening scene \u2013 an ensemble of women standing together, heads turned, one arm raised to the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Angels\u2019 Atlas Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite created\u00a0Angels\u2019 Atlas\u00a0for The National Ballet of Canada in March 2020 to rapturous reviews. The ballet unfolds against a morphing wall of light that carries the illusion of depth and a sense of the natural world. Here, the dancing body becomes a sign of humanity\u2019s impermanence and \u2013 equally \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[6002],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/72859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/72859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72861,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/72859\/revisions\/72861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72859"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=72859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Serenade<\/h3>\n