Ballet on Screen: The Dream/Symphonic Variations/Marguerite and Armand

Showings

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema Sun, Jul 9, 2017 12:00 PM
Film Info
Runtime:185 min
Country Listing:UK
Copyright:2017
Rating:Not yet rated (STC)
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Emmanuel Plasson

Description

Join us for not just one, not two, but three hypnotizing masterworks from the great British choreographer Frederick Ashton. The program opens with The Dream, a playful piece derived from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in which Ashton instills the work’s trademark wit and whimsy, accompanied by a charming score from Felix Mendelssohn. Among Ashton’s most revered ballets, Symphonic Variations experiments with tempo and movement in a graceful work of pure dance. Lastly, Marguerite and Armand is a powerful love story, set to Franz Liszt’s famous Piano Sonata in B Minor, about a Parisian courtesan recounting her greatest love affair from her deathbed.

Includes two 15 minute intermissions.

Tickets: $16 (Members: $12, $10, Free)