I was invited as a guest choreographer to create a new work for the dance company Ballet Kelowna, premiering on February 14 & 15, 2020.
As it is ( World Premiere )
Dancers: Ballet Kelowna
Choreography: Eva Kolarova
Music:
Tamara Montenegro: Glacier, Exploration of inner self - Go with it, Cinematic landscape - Earworm
Mose Robert: Observer Theory
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Duration: 40min
Award-winning choreographer Eva Kolarova promises to stimulate the senses and provoke thought with a work that explores ideas of loneliness and separation, and the urgency to form relationships with others. The audience is taken to the other side of love, where yin balances yang. The dancers intertwine themselves in a contemporary ballad of self-love called As it is.
“I was commissioned to create a piece about love. Thinking about the topic and relationships I realize I don’t want to talk about the stereotypical love story. Seeking a relationship should never be without first understanding of who we are [alone], which is not the same as being lonely. Being lonely is a social construct a result of isolation. And I think that before connecting with another human being we need to first have a relationship with ourselves."
Media coverages:
CAPITALNEWS:
GLOBALNEWS:
DAILYCOURIER:
http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/entertainment/article_a2d714da-4df8-11ea-a8db-6b2ebaff596e.html?fbclid=IwAR3wBSWz5YyeetNn6zzMO-SruCvXwdkn7XpP0AIQDhdTMvHKJudjk6f0Kj0
http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/entertainment/article_f114712e-5357-11ea-ba06-d7e6ee2162cb.html
CASTANET:
https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/276594/Ballet-Kelowna-presents-Twilight-on-Valentine-s-Day-weekend?fbclid=IwAR1MJTzcQ05-nCkPhWQFaGdBoDczO4-F1j1lr_h9-Bi76NqIaT2diRf4Xc8
For more information: https://www.balletkelowna.ca/twilight