In The Upper Room and Symphony in C
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
145 Queen Street West
(416) 345-9595
Wednesday November 5 - Sunday November 9, 2008
Wednesday November 5: 7:30pm
Thursday November 6: 2:00pm and 7:30pm
Friday November 7: 7:30pm
Saturday November 8: 2:00pm and 7:30pm
Sunday November 9: 2:00pm and 7:30pm
$45.00 - $155.00
http://www.national.ballet.ca
About In The Upper Room
Twyla Tharp is one of the supreme dance-poets of popular American culture. Her exuberant, inventive and relentlessly energetic ballets capture the urgency, potency and vigor of the contemporary landscape with a choreographic style that is wonderfully idiosyncratic yet always communicative.
Absorbing a wide range of influences, she infuses the classical vocabulary with jazz and pop-inflected movement that creates a perfect correlative in dance for the world around us. Her 1986 work In The Upper Room, set to music by Philip Glass, bristles with her characteristic physicality and speed, while remaining alive as well to the subtlety and grace of the classical idiom.
About Symphony in C
A glorious, timeless and radiant example of the Balanchine aesthetic on a grand scale, Symphony in C thrills with the sheer beauty of its effects and the ambition of its vision.
Set to music by Bizet, the ballet was originally conceived for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1947 with the title Le Palais de cristal. Balanchine subsequently restaged it under its new title for New York City Ballet, streamlining its sets and costumes, but sacrificing nothing of its original goal, which was to highlight every facet of the entire company's artistry.
