BOLERO X + Silent Tides + Chamber

Ballet BC

2024-10-17 20:00 2024-10-18 21:45 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: BOLERO X + Silent Tides + Chamber

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36014

In-person event

With the National Arts Centre Orchestra Chamber  by Medhi Walerski (32 minutes)
Intermission (20 minutes)
Silent Tides by Medhi Walerski (18 minutes)​
Intermission (20 minutes)
BOLERO X  by Shahar Binyamini (15 minutes) In this remarkable triple bill program, the NAC Orchestra accompanies Chamber, one of artistic director Medhi Walerski’s most acclaimed and elegant ballets, and BOLERO X, created by Shahar Binyamini for the...

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Southam Hall,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
October 17 - 18, 2024
8:00 pm EDT

October 2024

  1. Oct 17 2024
    Thursday

    8:00pm

  2. Oct 18 2024
    Friday

    8:00pm

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A large group of dancers on stage in black tights and skin toned tops, with arms floating up.
Artists of Ballet BC and Arts Umbrella in BOLERO X by Shahar Binyamini © Michael Slobodian
Artists of Ballet BC and Arts Umbrella in BOLERO X by Shahar Binyamini © Michael Slobodian
Ballet BC dancers Orlando Harbutt and Sarah Pippin in BOLERO X by Shahar Binyamini © Michael Slobodian
Ballet BC artists Sarah Pippin and Rae Srivastava in Silent Tides by Medhi Walerski © Michael Slobodian
Ballet BC Dancers Orlando Harbutt and Kiana Jung in 'Chamber' by Medhi Walerski. © Michael Slobodian
Ballet BC artists Sarah Pippin and Rae Srivastava in Silent Tides by Medhi Walerski © Michael Slobodian
Artists of Norwegian Ballet in Chamber by Medhi Walerski © Kristin Evjenth
Artists of Ballet BC in 'Chamber' by Medhi Walerski. © Michael Slobodian
Artists of Ballet BC in 'Chamber' by Medhi Walerski. © Michael Slobodian
Ballet BC artists Sarah Pippin and Rae Srivastava in Silent Tides by Medhi Walerski © Michael Slobodian
Dance Ballet with Orchestra
A large group of dancers on stage in black tights and skin toned tops, with arms floating up.
Artists of Ballet BC and Arts Umbrella in BOLERO X by Shahar Binyamini © Michael Slobodian
Artists of Ballet BC and Arts Umbrella in BOLERO X by Shahar Binyamini © Michael Slobodian
Ballet BC dancers Orlando Harbutt and Sarah Pippin in BOLERO X by Shahar Binyamini © Michael Slobodian
Ballet BC artists Sarah Pippin and Rae Srivastava in Silent Tides by Medhi Walerski © Michael Slobodian
Ballet BC Dancers Orlando Harbutt and Kiana Jung in 'Chamber' by Medhi Walerski. © Michael Slobodian
Ballet BC artists Sarah Pippin and Rae Srivastava in Silent Tides by Medhi Walerski © Michael Slobodian
Artists of Norwegian Ballet in Chamber by Medhi Walerski © Kristin Evjenth
Artists of Ballet BC in 'Chamber' by Medhi Walerski. © Michael Slobodian
Artists of Ballet BC in 'Chamber' by Medhi Walerski. © Michael Slobodian
Ballet BC artists Sarah Pippin and Rae Srivastava in Silent Tides by Medhi Walerski © Michael Slobodian
“Innovative triple bill program featuring live orchestral music”
  • In-person event
  • ≈ 1 hour 45 minutes · With intermission
  • Partial nudity

With the National Arts Centre Orchestra

Chamber  by Medhi Walerski (32 minutes)
Intermission (20 minutes)
Silent Tides by Medhi Walerski (18 minutes)​
Intermission (20 minutes)
BOLERO X  by Shahar Binyamini (15 minutes)

In this remarkable triple bill program, the NAC Orchestra accompanies Chamber, one of artistic director Medhi Walerski’s most acclaimed and elegant ballets, and BOLERO X, created by Shahar Binyamini for the company in 2023, a masterful reading of Maurice Ravel’s Bolero.  

For Medhi Walerski, the rhythmic momentum and discordant tensions in Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring make it one of the most vibrant compositions of all time, and he describes the creation of Chamber as an echo of what the score provokes in his imagination. Performed to original music by the eminent British composer Joby Talbot, Walerski centralizes the performers in a ritualistic dance that seeks to strike a balance between order and chaos, charging the theatre space with a darkened, absorbing energy. Magnificent and absolutely riveting.     

Silent Tides is an intimate work for two dancers that reflects our relationship to one another and to ourselves—the infinite gates where our bodies receive nourishment and otherness, vibration and energy. Touch, time, eternity, love, death, infinity, low tides, high tides.

BOLERO X, set to Ravel’s beloved score that builds gradually on a simple theme towards its hypnotizing crescendo, showcases the dancers of Ballet BC at their absolute best. Choreographer Shahar Binyamini has created an ode to unity and a celebration of the power of dance. Its language of sensual gestures and grand, pulsing group movements is breathtaking to witness. An extraordinary work for 50 dancers that fully exploits the power of repetition to create a layered, sweeping expression of joy.  

Ballet BC creates works that are visceral, provocative and transformative. Founded in 1986, the company's distinctive approach and style have made a significant contribution to the evolution of dance and the accessibility of ballet.   

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Artists

  • Choreography Medhi Walerski
  • shahar-binyamini
    Choreography Shahar Binyamini
  • Featuring Ballet BC
  • bio-orchestra
    Featuring NAC Orchestra
  • Conductor Andrew Crust
  • CHAMBER
  • World premiere: October 4, 2012, NDT 1, The Hague / Ballet BC Premiere: May 9, 2024
  • Choreography Medhi Walerski
  • Composer Joby Talbot
  • Music Chamber Symphony by Joby Talbot presented under license from G. Schirmer Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, copyright owners.
  • Lighting design Jordan Tuinman
  • Costume design Medhi Walerski
  • Staging Sarah Reynolds
  • SILENT TIDES
  • World Premiere: September 2020, Nederlands Dans Theater I Ballet BC Premiere: November 2022
  • Music Composition by Adrien Cronet Violin concerto in A minor, BWV 1041: Andante, by Johann Sebastian Bach Performed by Joji Hattori and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Courtesy of 1997 Conifer Records Limited Licensed by Sony Music Entertainment (Canada)
  • Lighting Design Pierre Pontvianne and Lisette van der Linden
  • Lighting Consultant Tom Visser
  • Set Design Medhi Walerski
  • Costume Design Medhi Walerski
  • BOLERO X
  • World Premiere: November 2, 2023, Ballet BC
  • Choreography Shahar Binyamini
  • Music Boléro by Maurice Ravel
  • Lighting design Shahar Binyamini
  • Associate lighting design Matthew Piton
  • Costume design Shahar Binyamini
  • Associate costume design Kate Burrows
  • With support from: BOLERO X was made possible through the generous support of Josh Pekarsky and Marla Guralnick in honour of Arlene Gladstone; Karen James; Trudy and Dan Pekarsky; Arlene James; Judy and Isaac Thau; Shirley Barnett; Roberta Beiser; and Jeanie Wexler.