Ballet BC (2025)

DANCE CONSORTIUM presents
BALLET BC

Canada’s leading contemporary dance company make their highly anticipated return, taking on Crystal Pite and Johan Inger.

Vancouver-based Ballet BC (British Columbia) wowed audiences and critics on their debut visit to the UK in 2018 with their “superb, gorgeous energy” [The i], with standing ovations at every venue inspired by the “joyous technical expertise of this excellent company” [The Guardian].

In PASSING, legendary Swedish choreographer and longtime Ballet BC collaborator Johan Inger traverses a vast landscape of human emotion, taking audiences on an epic, theatrical, often touching ride. Inspired by climate catastrophe, PASSING explores relationships, from the intimate to the societal. Set to an original score by Amos Ben-Tal with selections from Erik Enocksson and Louis T. Hardin (aka Moondog), the sonic journey is as beautifully complex and captivating as the movement language throughout.

Originally created for Nederlands Dans Theater in 2008 and reimagined for Ballet BC, Frontier, by four-time Olivier award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite will take the stage in spring 2025. Featuring 24 dancers, the visionary, enigmatic work is a portrait of the invisible forces that move us; a dance in the borderland between the known and the unknown.

Crystal Pite says: “I liked the idea of unknown forces at work in our galaxy and in our universe and in our brains. How lovely or poetic is it that scientists even call it dark matter? I find that mystery very beautiful. As a creator, I find a pleasing parallel between what we don’t know about the universe and what we don’t know about consciousness. Creation for me is about venturing into unknown territory.”