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MOMIX Botanica paints beautiful pictures

By On 2011.03.19 · Leave a Comment

MOMIX‘s Botanica shown at the NAC tonight was a fantastic show by this world-renowned company of dancer-illusionists.  Creative, beautiful, and astonishing images with breathtaking backdrops and fantastic costumes.  Would I see this again?   In a flash!

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The Kirov Ballet gave Ottawa quite a show!

By On 2011.02.25 · Leave a Comment

A Russian production on a grand scale, with glittering costumes and exquisite dancers! Virtuoso performances by the Kirov’s lead dancers against a corps background of some 30-40, including special appearances by a number of Ottawa students.  Bravo!

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Crystal Pite/Kidd Pivot – Dark Matters

By On 2009.04.26 · Leave a Comment

OK, I’m officially a fan of this choreographer and dancer now!

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Grupo Corpo sizzles in Breu

By On 2009.03.22 · Leave a Comment

The second time seeing this Brazilian dance company, I was not disappointed.

seven or eight pieces for a Ballet and Breu were about as different as it is possible for a dance company to perform, yet the dancers brought these two pieces to life and danced them with grace, agility and sensuality.

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Performance and dance world, I’ve been remiss…!

By On 2009.03.22 · Leave a Comment

My last post was for Midsummer Night’s Dream by Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, a little over a year ago.  To bring this site up to date, since then, we’ve been to the Cirque du Soleil’s Corteo,Estampas Portenas‘s Tango Fire, Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo (not to be confused [...]

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Les Ballets de Monte Carlo

By On 2008.02.28 · Leave a Comment

On a cold winter’s night in Ottawa, we witnessed a hot performance of this classic Shakespearean story by a dance troupe that, when I purchased the National Arts Centre tickets last year, I thought was the Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.

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Mamma loved Mamma Mia!

By On 2007.12.28 · Leave a Comment

I think Mom agrees that it was a worthwhile wait for this show.

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Beautiful Dance Photos Soon to Grace Our Walls

By On 2007.11.29 · Leave a Comment

Today, we purchased two pictures by Michael Slobodian (Montreal) at the first fundraiser of Tara Luz Danse (taraluzdance@hotmail.com), held at the Galerie d’art Jean-Claude-Bergeron on St-Patrick Street in Ottawa.

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Crystal Pite and Kidd Pivot: Lost Action

By On 2007.11.10 · Leave a Comment

This show was every bit as captivating as the last performance (Double Story: Man Asunder and The Bouncy Woman Piece, NAC October 2004) we saw from artist, dancer and choreographer, Crystal Pite, and her dance company, Kidd Pivot. Four male and three female dancers created [...]

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Diavolo Dance Theater – worth every penny

By On 2007.10.12 · Leave a Comment

Ten dancers twirl, jump, run, bounce, and dance off, on, around and inside several fantastic sets – an oversize peg-board in D2R A, a giant boat in Trajectoire and a huge block made of up three pyramids in Foreign Bodies. This Diavolo show was one of the [...]

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