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Angels’ Atlas

Choreography: Crystal Pite
Original Music: Owen Belton
Additional Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Opus 41, No. 6: Cherubic Hymn
Performed by Valery Polyansky and the USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir
Courtesy of Firma Melodia Music Ltd.
Morten Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium
Used by arrangement with Southern Music Pub. Co, Inc., Publisher and Copyright Holder.
Performed by Polyphony. Conducted by Stephen Layton. Courtesy of Hyperion Records Ltd, London.
Reflective Light Backdrop Concept: Jay Gower Taylor
Reflective Light Backdrop Design: Jay Gower Taylor and Tom Visser
Lighting Design: Tom Visser
Costume Design: Nancy Bryant
Assistant to the Choreographer: Spencer Dickhaus


Serenade

Choreography: George Balanchine
Staged by: Joysanne Sidimus
Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Serenade for Strings, Op. 48
Costume Design: Barbara Karinska
Lighting Design: Ronald Bates

The performance of Serenade, a Balanchine® Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced by arrangement with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established and provided by the Trust.


A Streetcar Named Desire
A Ballet by John Neumeier

Choreography, Costume, Set and Lighting Design: John Neumeier
*Music: Act I: Sergei Prokofiev’s Visions Fugitives, Op. 22
Act II: Alfred Schnittke, Symphony No. 1
By arrangement With G. Schirmer, INC. publisher and copyright owner
Lighting Reconstruction: Ralf Merkel

*Specific artistic choices of the Choreographer led to the exclusion of live orchestral music in this and all previous productions of A Streetcar Named Desire.


Elite Syncopations

Choreography: Sir Kenneth MacMillan
Music: Scott Joplin and others
Sunflower Slow Drag is arranged by D.S. de Lisle, edited by Gunther Schuler;
Elite Syncopations and Stop-Time Rag are arranged by George Sponhaltz;
The Cascades is arranged by E.J. stark, edited by Gunther Schuler;
Ragtime Nightingale, Bethena, Friday Night and Cataract Rag are arranged by Robert Docker;
The Golden Hours is used by arrangement with Hollis Music Inc.
Costume Design: Ian Spurling
Lighting Design: William Bundy


The Sleeping Beauty

Produced, Originally Staged and with Additional Choreography: Rudolf Nureyev after Marius Petipa
Staged by: Karen Kain, C.C., LL.D., D.Litt., O. Ont. and the Artistic Staff of The National Ballet of Canada
Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Set and Costume Design: Nicholas Georgiadis
Lighting Design: David Hersey


Featuring

Guillaume Côté
Sonia Rodriguez
Peng-Fei Jiang
Former Principal Dancer Xiao Nan Yu
Artists of the Ballet
Musicians of The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra


Thank You

Angels’ Atlas is commissioned by The National Ballet of Canada and is a co-production of The National Ballet of Canada and Ballett Zürich.

Philanthropic support for Angels’ Atlas is generously provided by An Anonymous Donor, Rosamond Ivey, Ira Gluskin & Maxine Granovsky Gluskin, The Producers’ Circle, The Volunteer Committee of The National Ballet of Canada and The Gail Hutchison Fund.

The Producers’ Circle: Gail & Mark Appel, John & Claudine Bailey, Inger Bartlett & Marshal Stearns, Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney, Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance, The Thor E. and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation, Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan, Kevin Garland & Roger Garland, C.M., Ira Gluskin & Maxine Granovsky Gluskin, The William & Nona Heaslip Foundation, Anna McCowan Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C., Judy Korthals & Peter Irwin, Mona & Harvey Levenstein, Jerry & Joan Lozinski, The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C., Julie Medland, Sandra Pitblado & Jim Pitblado, C.M., The Harry & Lillian Seymour Family Foundation, Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan and The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation.
A Streetcar Named Desire is made possible by the generous support of The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation and The Producers’ Circle.

The Sleeping Beauty is made possible by generous contributions from Margaret Fleck & Jim Fleck, C.C., The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation, Sandra Pitblado & Jim Pitblado, C.M., Gretchen Ross and Nancy Pencer & Michael Benjamin.

The National Ballet Orchestra is supported by the TD Bank Group Orchestra Fund and by members of the Music Circle.

The Music Circle: John & Claudine Bailey, Nani & Austin Beutel, Peter & Eleanor Daniels, Jeanie A. Davis, Indra & Rags Davloor, The Thor E. Eaton and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation, William & Ruth Herridge, Anne & Charles Morison, Sandra Pitblado & Jim Pitblado, C.M., John & Susan Rose, Gretchen Ross & Donald Ross, O.C., Noreen Taylor, C.M., & David Staines, C.M., O.Ont. and The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundation.

Videography: Monica Guddat
Editing: Sean Leonard

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