ART - THE SPACE IN BETWEEN: "ANIMA ANUMUS" BY THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA

"Anima Animus" British choreographer David Dawson created Anima Animus for San Francisco Ballet’s Unbound Festival of new work in 2018. An instant success, it has since toured throughout the US and to the UK. The ballet explores the fluid space between extremes and opposites and particularly Carl Jung’s gendering of the collective unconscious as anima and animus, which it disrupts. Anima Animus is a high-octane work favouring speed and precision that sets the dancers powering across the stage to Ezio Bosso’s Violin Concerto No. 1, music that is also filled with contrasts. 

 Choreography: David Dawson Staged by: Rebecca Gladstone and Christiane Marchant Music: Ezio Bosso, Violin Concerto No. 1, EsoConcerto (2017) By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, INC., publisher and copyright owner. Aaron Schwebel, violin Set Design: John Otto Costume Design: Yumiko Takeshima Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls 

Featuring:

David Dawson

Naoya Ebe

Koto Ishihara

Harrison James

Genevieve Penn Nabity 

Ben Rudisin 

Spencer Hack 

Jeannine Haller 

Calley Skalnik 

Monika Haczkiewicz

Clare Peterson

NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA