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[allthecanadianpolitics]

Members of an Indigenous advisory committee at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet say they're cutting ties with the organization after seven years. The Indigenous advisory circle — comprising lawyer Danielle Morrison, two-spirit elder Albert McLeod and University of Winnipeg professor Kevin Lamoureaux — resigned en masse along with a board member via letter on Friday afternoon. The advisory circle, formed in 2018, was intended to make Canada's oldest ballet company "a more equitable, diverse and inclusive organization," the ballet's website says.

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Me, Seeing Swan Lake in 2015: I squee at Sigfried lifting Odette during their Pas de Deux, because it reminds me of Tutu lifting herself in the air when she performs one by herself.

Me, Seeing Swan Lake in 2023: I still squee seeing Sigfried lifting Odette during their Pas de Deux for that same reason.

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Michel Lavoie | Royal Winnipeg Ballet

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An esteemed Winnipeg dancer graced the stage once again last week, more than eight decades after her debut.

Lily Guberman, 102, took part in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s annual production of 'The Nutcracker' in full costume.

“I loved it. I always loved dancing,” Guberman said on Monday. “Such a good, good, wonderful feeling with the music and the people.”

Guberman, who turns 103 next month, was a member of the original Winnipeg Ballet Club in 1939, which later became the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

Following her performance, she was gifted a bouquet and was able to meet with fans.

“It's a very happy feeling to dance,” she said.

The performance was special for Guberman, as her daughter travelled from British Columbia to see her dance.

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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002) Guy Maddin

November 17th 2024

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Evelyn Hart

Evelyn Hart was born in 1956 in Toronto, Ontario. In 1976, Hart joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and went on to become a soloist in 1978 and a principal dancer in 1979. In 1980, she became the first Canadian to win gold at the Varna International Ballet Competition. Over the course of 30 years with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Hart performed in over 100 countries. In 2000, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. In 2001, Hart received Canada's highest honor in the performing arts, the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

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Ryan Vetter  

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This week I was reminded of a ballet-based canadian children's tv show from my early childhood, which was based on The Steadfast Tin Soldier by hans christian andersen. It was called The Toy Castle, performed by the royal Winnipeg ballet, and I loved it dearly from ages 3-6. My favourite character was the Sailor.

I also just learned that the same ballet company made an adaptation of the actual steadfast tin soldier story (you know, the tragedy) with the same sets and costumes... I'm about to watch it, I feel like this is gonna be very surreal lmao but I'm loving this nostalgia blast

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Maybe you can have her dance backup for Tate whenever Tate performs in Calgary/wherever Matt is living or playing

Yes! Sorry I went down a bit of a rabbit hole with an idea! (if you don't like this idea I will scrap it for this au) What if she was a ballet dancer? She studied at schools in the Calgary area when she little and then When Matt started playing in the whl she moved to lets say Winnipeg to study at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. But something happens there and she eventually drops out, moves back home. But she's still a phenomenal dancer. And yes she dances backup for her bestie Tate whenever they're together.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Winnipeg municipal leaders want to spend $2 million on shoring up four high-profile downtown arts organizations, Mayor Scott Gillingham announced Wednesday. Gillingham said the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO), Manitoba Opera and Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre are slated as proposed recipients of the Downtown Arts Capital Fund, which provides $500,000 each year for capital projects in the city’s arts and culture sector. “These investments in Winnipeg’s long-standing arts organizations are also a commitment to the future of our downtown,” Gillingham said.

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Alanna McAdie | Peter Lancksweerdt | Royal Winnipeg Ballet | Photo by Michelle Blais

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Mychael Danna is an Emmy and Oscar-winning film composer known for his evocative blending of orchestral and electronic music with non-Western traditions. His numerous Genie Award-winning scores for filmmaker and longtime partner Atom Egoyan, as well as his Oscar-winning score for Ang Lee's 2012 film Life of Pi, are among his highly acclaimed compositions. Mycheal Danna At the University of Toronto, Danna developed a penchant for communicating difficult concepts in a way that is musically understandable. He was exposed to early music and global music there, which eventually shaped his style. In 1985, Danna won the school's first-ever "Glenn Gould Composition Award" and started composing music for student theatre companies, beginning his collaborative artistic relationship with Egoyan. Since 1987's Family Viewing, Danna has provided the music for all of Egoyan's movies (1987). The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television awarded Danna Genie Awards for his work on the Egoyan movies Ararat (2002), Felicia's Journey (1999), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and Exotica (1994), as well as for his Oscar-winning score for the movie Water (2005). After working with Ang Lee on the scores for The Ice Storm (1997) and Ride with the Devil, Danna won the 2013 Golden Globe and the 2013 Oscar for his work on Life of Pi (2012). (1999). A church choir sings in Sanskrit, Indian sitars play French melodies, European instruments play South Asian patterns, and a variety of other musical combinations soar alongside a full studio orchestra in Life of Pi (2012)'s complex soundscape, reflecting a very international story. Along with Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) and Tideland (2005), Bennett Miller's Moneyball (2011) and his Oscar-winning drama Capote (2005), Mira Nair's Vanity Fair (2004), Monsoon Wedding (2001), and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996), and Billy Ray's Breach (2007) and Shattered Glass are other notable collaborations (2003). The Oscar-winning Little Miss Sunshine (2006), for which Danna was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album, Marc Webb's celebrated romantic comedy 500 Days of Summer (2009), and James Mangold's Oscar-winning picture Girl, Interrupted round out Danna's list of accomplishments (1999). According to Danna, his strategy is to "make music an intrinsic element of the storytelling, not just duplicating what is happening onscreen, but adding unexpected dimension and insight that improve the experience of the director's vision. Since his 1978 debut on the Canadian science-fiction musical "Metal Messiah," composer Mychael Danna has been recognised for hundreds of cinema and television themes. He has collaborated with several of the best Hollywood filmmakers and provided the music for various films directed by Atom Egoyan and Ang Lee. For his score to Lee's 2012 film "The Life of Pi," he received the Academy Award and the Golden Globe, in addition to five Genie Awards in his native Canada. For five years, Danna worked as the resident composer at the McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto (1987–1992). Music for dances has been used in performances such as Dead Souls (Carbone Quatorze Dance Company, 1996; directed by Gilles Maheu), and Gita Govinda (Royal Winnipeg Ballet, 2001; choreographer Nina Menon). Danna received an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto in June 2014 for his work in the music industry. Since his 1987 feature film debut as a composer for Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing, Danna has been nominated for thirteen Genie Awards. He has received five awards for Original Score Achievement in Music. In the field of film music, Danna is regarded as one of the pioneers of fusing non-Western sound sources with symphonic and electronic minimalism. Because of his notoriety, he has been able to work with filmmakers like Denzel Washington, Atom Egoyan, Deepa Mehta, Terry Gilliam, Scott Hicks, Ang Lee, Gillies MacKinnon, James Mangold, and Mira Nair.

His score for Ang Lee's Life of Pi received nominations for two Academy Awards, including Best Original Song for Pi's Lullaby and Best Original Score. Other movies include Onward by Dan Scanlon, On the Basis of Sex by Mimi Leder, The Breadwinner by Nora Twomey, Capote and Moneyball by Bennett Miller, and (500) Days of Summer by Marc Webb. The Academy Award for Best Original Score went to Mychael Danna, the score composer for Life of Pi. The Canadian composer triumphed over John Williams, Thomas Newman, Dario Marianelli, and Alexandre Desplat in a battle of composers. Different Interviews Regarding his Work: The honour follows Danna's earlier Golden Globe triumph in the same category. Earlier in February, Thomas Newman's soundtrack for Skyfall won the BAFTA for best soundtrack, but he was unable to duplicate the feat at the Oscars. Tale won three Golden Globes—often regarded as a forerunner to the Academy Awards—in the following categories: Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Actor (Musical or Comedy, for Hugh Jackman), and Best Supporting Actress (musical or comedy, for Anne Hathaway) After collecting nominations for the music and the song "Pi's Melody" from the movie on Thursday, Mychael Danna's score for Ang Lee's Life of Pi won the award. Director Ang Lee and his parents were acknowledged by Canadian composer Danna for "the gift of music that you gave me." I felt very, very lucky to be a part of the entire Life of Pi experience, and I speak for the entire cast and crew, even before this, he continued. Ang Lee's film adaption of Yann Martel's book Life Of Pi is unquestionably one of the most eagerly awaited films of the year. Critics have already hailed it as a visual masterpiece for telling the strange tale of a youngster who is trapped in a lifeboat with just a tiger for company. However, Mychael Danna, the composer, wonders how on earth one goes about writing music for a movie like this. Danna talked to Classic FM's Lucy Coward about the process of writing the movie's score (for which he has since gotten a coveted Golden Globe nomination), how some of the music was inspired by his upbringing, and why staying in his compositional bubble for four months worked so well. In regards to the movie itself, Danna says: "Working on this project is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and in a way, my entire career has brought me to this picture." It's difficult to disagree when praise is pouring in and expectations for the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards are high.

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Gailene Stock

Ballet dancer and teacher Gailene Stock was born in 1946 in Ballarat, Victoria. Stock began dancing at the age of four. She contracted polio at eight years old and was in an iron frame for eighteen months. At fourteen, Stock was in a car accident that left her in a coma for three days. Yet after both of these tragedies, she returned to dancing, and went on to enjoy a successful career. Stock performed as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. In 1999, she became Director of the Royal Ballet School, a position she held for fifteen years. Within Stock's first three years as director, graduate employment rates rose from 48% to 96%. In 2013, she received the Governors of the Royal Ballet Gold Medal and was made a CBE.

Gailene Stock died in 2014 at the age of 68.

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Unmasking Manitoba's Post-Pandemic Arts Struggle: A Wounded Winnipeg Heartfelt Story

The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s recent announcement of a $1.3 million deficit for the last season has shed light on the financial struggles faced by other local arts organizations. Andre Lewis, artistic director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, revealed that his organization is also grappling with a deficit of over half a million dollars. Lewis attributes these financial challenges to the ongoing…

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Unmasking Manitoba's Post-Pandemic Arts Struggle: A Wounded Winnipeg Heartfelt Story

The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s recent announcement of a $1.3 million deficit for the last season has shed light on the financial struggles faced by other local arts organizations. Andre Lewis, artistic director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, revealed that his organization is also grappling with a deficit of over half a million dollars. Lewis attributes these financial challenges to the ongoing…

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Unmasking Manitoba's Post-Pandemic Arts Struggle: A Wounded Winnipeg Heartfelt Story

The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s recent announcement of a $1.3 million deficit for the last season has shed light on the financial struggles faced by other local arts organizations. Andre Lewis, artistic director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, revealed that his organization is also grappling with a deficit of over half a million dollars. Lewis attributes these financial challenges to the ongoing…