Three Six Five
Saturday, July 14, 7:30 p.m. · Eric Harvie Theatre, The Banff Centre
All tickets $10 · Arts Lover Passholders Free
Banff Centre Box Office: 1-800-413-8368 or 762-6301
Presented as part of the 2007 Banff Summer Arts Festival
Touching on themes of death, birth, and new beginnings, Wen Wei Dance will present a special preview of the company’s newest creation Three Six Five at The Banff Centre on July 14. Featuring six dancers and a live musician, Three Six Five is a new full-length collaborative piece by renowned choreographer Wen Wei Wang and Italian-Canadian composer Giorgio Magnanensi. The composer has adapted Vivaldi’s well-loved The Four Seasons for this new work, creating a contemporary and world music landscape to complement Wang’s cross-cultural choreography.
Three Six Five follows Wang’s highly successful piece Unbound, which premiered at the Canada Dance Festival in Ottawa in June 2006 following a Banff Centre production residency. With Three Six Five, Wang explores new choreographic directions. The piece is about traveling through time and space, allowing emotions to surface directly from the movement. Intending to bridge the worlds of western classical music and eastern musical influences, the work marks the fourth collaboration between Wang, Magnanensi, and lighting designer James Proudfoot. Following the preview in Banff, the work will premiere in Vancouver at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre in the fall of 2007.
Born in China, Wen Wei Wang began dancing at age 13. He moved to Canada in 1991 and performed with the Judith Marcuse Dance Company before spending seven years dancing with Ballet British Columbia. In 2000, he received The Banff Centre’s Clifford E. Lee Award for choreography and created Snow, which was performed at the Banff Summer Arts Festival and remounted by Alberta Ballet. Tao (the Way), a full-length work, was commissioned by the 2003 Dancing on the Edge Festival, marking the launch of Wang’s own company. He also choreographed a full-length solo for himself, One Man’s… which was presented at the Vancouver International Dance Festival and at Dancing on the Edge.
Giorgio Magnanensi is a composer of orchestral, chamber, electro acoustic, new music, and multimedia works that have been successfully performed and awarded throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. He has served as principal conductor for Italian ensembles including the Rossini Chamber Orchestra, the Ensemble NYM, the Ensemble Octandre, and the Ensemble Musica Attuale. Since 2000, Magnanensi has been principal conductor of the Vancouver New Music Ensemble and artistic director of Vancouver New Music. He is widely recognized for programming and producing innovative and original new music events, concert series, and festivals with an experimental curatorial approach.
Three Six Five is presented as part of the Banff Summer Arts Festival and is an RBC Financial Group Showcase Performance. Tickets for all Banff Centre events are available through The Banff Centre Box Office: 1-800-413-8368 or 403-762-6301.
