Quebec Scene

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal

Presented by National Arts Centre Dance

Two dramatic new works created especially for the 50th anniversary
of Quebec’s leading ballet company. In TooT, Dutch choreographer
Didy Veldman (music by Shostakovich) groups eight men and seven women in a series of beguiling vignettes that examine the role of the
individual in society. Noces, by Belgium’s Stijn Celis (set to Stravinsky’s riveting score), features 24 dancers who strut, pose, and brutally challenge each other at a Balkan peasant wedding; the dancing is expressionistic and deliriously intense.

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