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B.C. Ballet's Four Seasons proves a mix of joy, pain, and scribbling

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By Jessica Werb
Straight.com

Choreographed by artistic director John Alleyne, Ballet B.C.’s ambitious The Four Seasons employs not just dance but visual art and installation, along with a sprinkle of community involvement. Call it the VANOC makeover.

B.C. Ballet's Four Seasons proves a mix of joy, pain, and scribbling

Makaila Wallace and Jones Henry dance Ballet B.C.’s The Four Seasons.

In mid June 2007, the Vancouver Olympic organizing committee put out a long-overdue call for applications to take part in the 2008 Cultural Olympiad. Groups were given only a month to come up with proposals before the funding deadline, which left many scrambling to cobble something together. Rather than pull together original productions, many groups—including Ballet B.C.—chose to look at their February programming and beef it up, as it were, in order to secure extra funding.

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