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SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER, 2011 – MONTREAL

Guest Rehearsal Director for Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal.

JANUARY 6TH – 9TH, 2012 – WOODBRIDGE (SUFFOLK, UK)

Participating in DancEast’s Rural Retreat 2012, for Future Directors and Creative Producers in Ballet and Dance.

UFFORD PARK HOTEL

MARCH TBA, 2012 – TORONTO

Collaboration with director Joel Ivany and Against The Grain Theatre on Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins. With musical direction by Christopher Mokrzewski and performed by Lindsay Sutherland Boal.

TBA

APRIL 19TH – 27TH – PORTLAND

Creation of a new work for Oregon Ballet Theatre, as part of the Chromatic Quartet program. Collaborators TBA

NEWMARK THEATRE


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JULY 22ND– AUGUST 7TH, 2011 – FREDERICTON

Remount of Theatre New Brunswick/Fredericton Playhouse’s musical, The Bricklin, written by Paul Ledoux and Allen Cole, directed by Alisa Palmer, choreography by Matjash Mrozewski.

FREDERICTON PLAYHOUSE

MAY 17TH, 2011 - TORONTO

Premiere of Tenebrae, commissioned by the COC Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre. The Tokai Quartet performed Golijov’s music with clarinetist Kornel Wolak and soprano Jacqueline Woodley, who also danced in the work with Mrozewski, Kate Franklin, Anisa Tejpar and Tyler Gledhill.

FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

May 3TH – 13TH, 2011 - TORONTO

Premiere of A World To Shake for Ballet Jörgen Canada, in collaboration with author Emil Sher, designer Lori Endes, composers Eric Cadesky and Nick Dyer, and graphic design and technology coordinator Mary Plasterer. The fifty-minute work was specifically commissioned for performances in schools, for students in kindergarten through to grade six.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN THE GREATER TORONTO AREA

APRIL 29TH, 2011 - TORONTO

Roughly 150 people took part in a flash mob performed to Joel Plaskett’s “Penny For Your Thoughts”, produced by Canada’s National Ballet School to celebrate International Dance Day.

DAVID PECAUT SQUARE

APRIL 9TH – JUNE 4TH, 2011 – AUGSBURG

Premiere of Ein Sommernachtstraum, (based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for Ballett Augsburg, with music by Mendelssohn and Purcell, designed by Stefan Morgenstern

GROSSE HAUS

MARCH 7TH– 8TH, 2011 – VANCOUVER

Premiere of Secret Self for MOVE: the company, with dancers Lara Barclay, Reid Colton, Matthew Waldie and Crystal Wills, to the music of Beethoven. Subsequent performances at the Joyce Soho in NYC and Winchester Street Theatre in Toronto.

SCOTIABANK DANCE CENTRE

MARCH 2ND– 5TH, 2011 – VANCOUVER

Danced in choreographer Simone Orlando’s Luft, commissioned by the Turning Point Ensemble (to a new score by Jocelyn Morlock), as a guest of MOVE: the company.

VANCOUVER EAST CULTURAL CENTRE

FEBRUARY 4TH – 12TH, 2011 – ANTWERP

Premiere of Amarant for The Royal Ballet of Flanders, with music by Scanner, costumes by Isabelle Lhoas, and set and lights by Dominique Drillot. Additional performances in Gent and Hasselt.

VLAAMSE OPERA ANTWERPEN

OCTOBER 2ND, 2010 – TORONTO

Waltz of The Flowers for 60 non-professionals (Senior Adult Ballet Students from Canada’s National Ballet School). A performance occurred every 45 minutes between 7pm and 1am.

MONA CAMPBELL SQUARE, CANADA’S NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL

Penny For Your Thoughts – National Ballet School community flash mob

photo courtesy of The National Ballet School

Ein Sommernachtstraum - Ballett Augsburg

Kelly Tipton and Nathan Griswold

photo courtesy of Ballett Augsburg

Secret Self - MOVE: the company

Crystal Wills, Matthew Waldie, Lara Barclay and Reid Colton

photo by Lydia Nagai

Amarant - Royal Ballet of Flanders

Joelle Auspert and Sanny Kleef

photo by Costin Radu

Matjash Mrozewsi in rehearsal for choreographer Simone Orlando’s Luft, with the Turning Point Ensemble

photo by Jesse Read

A World To Shake – Ballet Jörgen Canada

Cristina Graziano

photo courtesy of Ballet Jörgen Canada

The Bricklin

photo courtesy of Fredericton Playhouse/Theatre New Brunswick