Vancouver Ballet BC returns to Montreal with BOLERO X

Vancouver Ballet BC returns to Montreal with a triple bill featuring the highly anticipated BOLERO X by emerging choreographer Shahar Binyamini, Silent Tides and Chamber by the company’s artistic director, Medhi Walerski. From October 2 to 5 at Théâtre Maisonneuve at Place des Arts.

Ballet BC returns with a stunning triple bill in which the music of Ravel’s Boléro acts as a catalyst to reinforce the power of the ensemble. On stage, 50 dancers will celebrate the power of dance and collective strength to Maurice Ravel’s crescendoing music. This uninterrupted intensity was an opportunity for Shahar Binyamini to explore the power of repetition through the 1928 score. The result is striking: the performers undulate their bodies in unison, building their movement to the rhythm of the soundtrack. The ensemble makes a visceral statement about what unites humanity, beyond our differences.

The other two pieces in the triple bill will be choreographed by Medhi Walerski, Artistic Director of Ballet BC. Silent Tides is an intimate work for two dancers that reflects our relationship to each other and to ourselves, these infinite doors where our bodies receive nourishment and otherness, vibration and energy. Finally, the audience will discover the astonishing music of Joby Talbot on which Medhi Walerski worked for his piece Chamber. Originally created with the Nederlands Dans Theater in 2012, Ballet BC’s version has enchanted audiences since its premiere last spring. Montreal audiences can now enjoy this grandiose performance, also danced by a large ensemble.

Shahar Binyamini is an Israeli choreographer and performer. He danced with the Batsheva Dance Company from 2006 to 2013, where he intensively performed the repertoire of choreographers Ohad Naharin and Sharon Eyal. As Ohad Naharin’s choreographic assistant, Binyamini worked with renowned dance companies such as the Paris Opera Ballet and the Nederlands Dans Theater. Since 2016, he has been creating international works and directing projects for various dance companies around the world.

About Medhi Walerski

Medhi Walerski became artistic director of Ballet BC in 2020. Raised in France, Walerski danced with the Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris and Ballet du Rhin before joining Nederlands Dans Theater in 2001. Walerski has created and performed works by Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon, Crystal Pite, Johan Inger and Wayne McGregor, among others. Since his choreographic debut in 2008, he has created numerous acclaimed works for NDT and Ballet BC, including Petite Cérémonie (2011), Chamber (2012), Roméo et Juliette (2018), Silent Tides (2020) and just BEFORE right AFTER (2022), as well as works for Bern Ballet, Gothenburg Ballet, StaatsBallett Hannover, Charlotte Ballet and many others.

About Ballet BC

Founded in 1986 by David YH Lui, Jean Orr and Sheila Begg, Ballet BC is Canada’s leading contemporary dance company. Based in Vancouver and led by Artistic Director Medhi Walerski, the company performs in venues across British Columbia and on the world’s finest stages. Ballet BC dancers are an open-minded and curious group of artists, each unique in their exceptional artistry while sharing an intuitive passion for movement. Deeply committed to new creation and presenting masterpieces from the most sought-after voices in dance today, Ballet BC’s diverse repertoire includes works by choreographers such as Crystal Pite, Johan Inger, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, Medhi Walerski, Out Innerspace, Imre and Marne van Opstal, Roy Assaf and Micaela Taylor.

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