Festival de Saint-Sauveur (Quebec)

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The festival (artistic director Guillaume Cote) has announced its program for August. Of particular interest to ballet lovers:

Wednesday August 10

Guillaume Côté and dancers of the National Ballet of Canada:

The Story of us (Marcelo Gomes, World Premiere, with Heather Ogden)
Venom (Côté, danced by Greta Hodgkinson)
The Sleeping Beauty prince's solo (Nureyev)
Dance me to the end of love (Côté)

Friday August 12- Saturday August 13

Solos and pas de deux from the classical, neoclassical and contemporary repertoires.

• • Guillaume Côté – National Ballet of Canadao

  • Heather Ogden – National Ballet of Canada

  • Misty Copeland – American Ballet Theatre

  • Blaine Hoven - American Ballet Theatre

  • Nehemiah Kish – The Royal Ballet

  • Yuhui Choe – The Royal Ballet

  • Anne Plamondon - Independent artist

  • more dancers TBA

Saint-Sauveur is about an hour north of Montreal in the Laurentians. For full program:

http://festivaldesarts.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/DOSSIER-PRESSE-EN_WEB.pdf