Simone Orlando

Ballet BC
Choreography: Simone Orlando
Music: Maurice Ravel
Costumes: Christine Joly de Lotbiniere
Lighting: Gerald King
Set Design/Art Work: Charles Forsberg
Premiere: November 22, 2007, Vancouver

"Ravel wrote his Piano Trio in the summer of 1914, at the time of the outbreak of the First World War. The premiere was given in January 1915. Likewise in four movements, the Ravel trio shows the composer at the height of his powers, and at the same time on the brink of transition to his late period in which the impressionist music based on tone-colour was to give way to a new Classicism.” ~ Uwe Schweikert

Moved by both the music of Maurice Ravel and the art of Charles Forsberg, Realm explores the natural state of transitioning – moving out of the shadows, away from indistinct, unsettled experiences.

Dark and tender interpretations from the past are resurrected in memory, providing new meaning to complex, richly textured moments from a life once lived.

I hope to convey the surfacing from darkness - not in fear, but with renewed hope - as a previous identity is abandoned, allowing a newly inspired self to emerge.

“Memory is an abstract painting – it does not present things as they are, but rather as they feel.”~ Eugenia Collier, Marigolds

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