National Ballet of Canada: The Life of a Ballet Dancer

Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre
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The National Ballet of Canada presents The Life of a Ballet Dancer

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The Life of a Ballet Dancer
Thursday, June 14, 2007
12 – 1 pm
The National Ballet of Canada Senior Ballet Master Peter Ottmann presents a lecture-demonstration that will guide the audience through the life of a dancer. The program will feature details of their extensive training and auditioning process, demonstrations of basic ballet exercises as well as the creation of characters with makeup and wigs.

Credit: Canadian Opera Company

A View from the Other Side of the Earth

I was brought up in the country where everybody recognized ballet as a possession of the state and was pride of it. It seemed that I knew everything about it.

But... Last performance "The Life of Ballet Dancer" changed my vision of it. The Senior Ballet Master (Peter Ottmann) and choreographers of National Ballet of Canada met with those who usually visited popular free midday concerts in the downtown Toronto. They spoke so naturally and friendly that gained confidence of us immediately.

For me it was as a new look at an old naphthalized staff. I realized that my knowledge was academic, and there I touched real lively ballet. During an hour I could watch a dancer doing her make-up, take some knowledge of the meaning of gestures in ballet, listen to voices of 'speechless' dancers and etc. It was marvelous!

I want to express gratitude to everybody who makes such a performance available.

2007 © Ira

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Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre

Four Seasons Cenre for the Perfoming Arts
The National Ballet of Canada presents The Life of a Ballet Dancer
2007 @ artjunction.blogspot.com

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