He has to lift people, effortlessly, and throw them around like a vampire.” Duets in Dracula are some of the hardest ones veteran company dancer Kelley McKinlay has ever done. Grand-Maître says there’s also plenty In Dracula to get the blood pumping for his dancers on stage too. Riffing off the gothic, classical ballets of the 19th century such as Swan Lake or Giselle, Stevenson features a large corps de ballets of Dracula’s undead brides flying in the air, “all looking exactly the same to an extraordinary visual effect.” Photo by Lyle Aspinall Lyle Aspinall / Lyle Aspinall/Postmedia Network Article content Kelley McKinlay, in the role of Dracula, performs during a dress rehearsal for Dracula at Alberta Ballet in Calgary. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Danced to music by Franz Liszt, the ballet places the bulk of the action in Dracula’s castle, and in a dark, atmospheric forest near a village in Transylvania. Grand-Maître describes Stevenson’s Dracula as a spectacular, theatrical experience. Francis Ford Coppola’s American romantic horror film was on the big screen at the time.
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When you look at how he built a ballet company in Texas, you realize how he really understood how to take European culture, the ballet from the royal courts, and bring it into the state of Texas and build this extraordinary company that today can dance anything.” says Grand-Maître, clearly inspired by Stevenson’s success, looking to him as a mentor on how to make ballet accessible and at the same time as an example of how to push the art form and dancers in new directions.ĭracula first enticed Stevenson’s imagination in the early 1990s, when he was contemplating with Mikhail Baryshnikov at the American Ballet Theater about what story would lend itself to the making of a next generation of narrative ballet classics. “Ben came to Houston and while he didn’t found it, he did make the Houston Ballet the company it is today, which is one of the best in North America. Sir Ben Stevenson, now in his 80s, grew up at the Royal Ballet, among the great ballet pedigree of Frederick Ashton, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. With the selection of the right narrative ballet for Alberta audiences and company dancers, Grand-Maître says he was looking for a choreographer with an extensive track record of successful story ballets. There is a mix of reality with mysticism in popular culture.” We know people today are very intrigued by the immortal figure, whether it be superheroes or True Blood. The theme itself is quite physical - love and life and death all very closely united. “To create new story ballets, you have to find a new narrative work that is interesting to people, that can work with a large corps de ballet and that can be danced to symphonic music,” explains Grand-Maître. 27 to 29 at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. Please try again Article content Kelley McKinlay, in the role of Dracula, performs with his wife Reilley McKinlay during a dress rehearsal for Dracula at Alberta Ballet in Calgary, Alta., on Tuesday, Oct. The next issue of Calgary Herald Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.
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