Assemblée Internationale 2013

 28 April - 4 May 2013

 It's been an amazing week bringing together students and teachers from 18 leading ballet schools in 11 countries to interact in classes, colloquia, and performances. There were two evenings of programmes by the various academies to show something of their interests and special qualities. Some was classic but most was modern, even avant-garde. These evenings were entitled Ballet: Traditionally Timeless.  Then there was an intense programme of mostly student works, blending students from different schools — it was entitled Choreography: Fast Forward. The second part was a remarkable feat, live streaming of Stream, choreographed by Shaun Amyôt and Michael Schumacher. Using state of the art technology with the help of Ryerson University, it simultaneously brought together casts in Toronto and Amsterdam, seamlessly transcending space and time.

Participants:

Canada's National Ballet School, organizing

Royal Winnipeg Ballet School

École supérieure de ballet du Québec

Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy

Julliard School

San Francisco Ballet School

Escuela Nacional Cubana de Ballet

Australian Ballet School

New Zealand School of Dance

Royal Ballet School

Schule des Hamburg Balletts

John Cranko Schule

Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden

Nationale Balletacademie, Amsterdam

Codarts, Rotterdam

Det Kongelige Teaters Balletskole, Copenhagen

École de Danse de l'Opéra National de Paris

EESA/CPD de l'Institut del Teatre, Barcelona

      Earthborn

       chor. Robert Binet (2013)