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Toronto's Can-Do Company: Ballet Jorgen Canada |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Michael Crabb |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 2,317 Words, 14,698 Characters |
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It's almost a 1,300-mile drive from Prince Rupert, British Columbia, to Great Falls, Montana, crossing several mountain ranges. Undertaking such a journey in late winter with a fresh snow warning in effect is hardly prudent. If you're trying to keep to a tight schedule at the same time, the trek might be considered foolhardy. But if you're the plucky, can-do company Ballet Jorgen Canada, it's all part of the business--even if it means driving through the night and performing the next day on the brink of exhaustion. Ballet Jorgen is the ultimate bus-and-truck touring ensemble and, come what may, the show must go on.
The small Toronto-based company's dancers are used to piling into minivans, driving long distances, checking into and out of hotels, and grabbing meals where they can. They've learned to adapt rapidly, dancing in a large, well-equipped theater one day and in a cramped high school auditorium the next. All the while they manage to deliver performances that have thrilled audiences in communities great and small, coast to coast, across Canada and in more than forty American cities.
As one enthusiastic audience member wrote four years ago after watching Ballet Jorgen dance in Dowagiac, Michigan (population 6,147): "Your dancers and all the people who make your company dance need to know that they bring the audience deep delight, profound happiness, and food for the human soul." When little, unheard-of Ballet Jorgen had the temerity in...
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...l broadcaster, aired a one-hour documentary about Ballet Jorgen entitled Dancing on a Shoestring. Its title aptly encapsulates the kernel of the company's success. As Ballet Jorgen has proved, big is not always better.
The Web site for the Ballet Jorgen is www.balletjorgen.ca. For more information on the arts and culture of Toronto, click on the "Greater Toronto" link at www.ontariotravel.net
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