White Act

World Premiere: November 6th, 2014  - Ballet BC. Queen Elisabeth Theater, Vancouver, BC, Canada.


CHOREOGRAPHY, COSTUME, SET and VIDEO DESIGN: Fernando Hernando Magadan


MUSIC: Schubert arr. Mahler: 1st movement - Quartet #14 in d minor of Death and the Maiden. Perfomed by Prague Camerata. Urmas Sisask: Oremus XXIII. Performed by Paul Hilier and the Estonian Philarmonic Chamber Choir.


DANCERS: Andrew Barteen, Nicholas Bellefleur, Emily Chessa, Darren Devaney, Livona Ellis, Alexis Fletcher, Scott Fowler, Connor Gnam, Rachel Meyer, Zoe Michalik, Keigo Nozaki, Rechael Prince, Gilbert Small, Peter Smida, Maya Tenzer, Christoph von Riedemann, Kirsten Wicklund, Tara Williamson.


CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSISTANT: Katherine Cowie 


COSTUME ASSISTANT: Kate Burrows


LIGHTING DESIGN: James Proudfoot 


VIDEO RECORDING and EDITING: Harmen Straatman


Inspired by the Romantic era and, in particular, by the great Romantic Ballet La Sylphide, one of the world's oldest surviving ballets where tragedy occurs between a mortal, terrestrial man and a supernatural woman, White Act explores the idea of the unattainable and the dream of inaccessible ideas. Our inherent temptation for the unknown, our intent to embody the supernatural through the human form, and our insatiable desire to find true love, sometimes with dramatic consequences.

photos© Michael Slobodian