move: the company

The Red Nocturnal Tours BC

November, 2011

Joshua Beamish and the dancers of MOVE: the company are back home in BC, returning from overwhelmingly successful engagements in New York City, Bangkok and Montreal, and are performing their mixed-piece program entitled “The Red Nocturnal” in five cities across the province. Beamish and his 24 dancers will be performing in Chilliwack, Kelowna, Nelson, Vancouver and Nanaimo from November 11^th to the 26^th.

MOVE: the company’s recent NYC performance at the Joyce SoHo was described as “one of the most gratifying evening’s of dance presented on New York’s downtown arts scene this season” – Backstage Magazine.

MOVE: the company's new program “The Red Nocturnal”, is sure to rock the contemporary ballet world with repertoire that includes a re-imagined version of The Red Nocturnal, a physically demanding tango ballet en pointe originally created for Ballet Kelowna, and Les Oiseaux, a barefoot take on the traditional classical ballet narratives of Swan Lake and Firebird. The evening is completed by Artistic Director Joshua Beamish's new creation Atonement, which features a cast of ten male and eleven female dancers. Atonement was first developed at New York City Ballet's New York Choreographic Institute on the students of the School of American Ballet. The Bangkok International Festival for Dance and Music commissioned this program, in partnership with the Canadian Embassy, to celebrate 50 years of Canadian-Thai political relations. The company has invited the local Thai Dance Company to perform a traditional Thai piece as a program opener for their upcoming performance in Vancouver. In Nanaimo, MOVE: the company has invited KYDC Dancers (Nanaimo), True Colours Youth Group (Courtney), Helix Dance Theatre (Parksville) and Fizzik'l (Victoria) to open the performance, as a means of connecting local emerging performers with the professional artists of our province.

Tour dates and locations are as follows:

Date: November 11^th

City: Chilliwack

Venue: Chilliwack Cultural Centre

Tickets: www.chilliwackculturalcentre.ca

Date: November 12^th & 13^th

City: Kelowna

Venue: Rotary Centre for the Arts

Tickets: www.rotarycentreforthearts.com (VIP tickets available via h.aucoin@movethecompany.com)

Date: November 19^th

City: Nelson

Venue: Capitol Theatre