With the opening night of DAWN, the 2024 – 2025 season opener just days away, things are buzzing at Ballet BC!
Costume details and final tweaks are in full swing and Ballet B.C.’s dancers are ready to share three incredible works with you.
Among them is the anticipated North American premiere of Frontier by Vancouver-based Crystal Pite. Re-imagining the piece specifically for Ballet BC, Pite is working the entire company plus guest artists from Arts Umbrella Dance for the work that examines the unknown, the shadow, and dark matter.
“How kind of lovely or poetic is it that scientists even call it dark matter?” Crystal states. “It’s like saying ‘terra incognita’. And it cannot be understood, at least at this point—I find that mystery very beautiful. It aligns also with the mystery of consciousness. So it pulls together a lot of things that I love and I’m interested and fascinated by, and, of course, things that terrify me too—the destabilizing feeling of not knowing and the vastness of it all.”
Check out the just-released studio trailer for Frontier and secure your tickets to the show everyone is talking about, where you’ll also experience a world premiere by Pierre Pontvianne and Imre and Marne van Opstal’s Heart Drive. Act fast—seats are very limited, especially for Saturday evening!
8:00 p.m. November 7, 8 and 9
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
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