Kieron Harper, Olivia MacLean, Mollie Oates-Johnson in Alice the Ballet at the Spatz Theatre Feb 17

Kieron Harper, Olivia MacLean, and Mollie Oates-Johnson are in the cast of Alice the Ballet, hosted by Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts and The Conservatory School of Dance. 

The ballet takes place February 17, 2019 at the Spatz Theatre in Halifax. There are two performances, at 1:00 and 4:00 p.m.

Kieron Harper, second from left, will play
the Mad Hatter in Alice the Ballet.

Kieron Harper will play the Mad Hatter in Alice. 

He received a Talent Trust dance scholarship in 2017 and attended the School of Alberta Ballet.

Kieron was one of the winners of the Collective Creation Award for choreography in the 2018 Dance Nova Scotia Taking Steps to Fly competition.

Dancer Olivia MacLean.

Olivia MacLean recently received a pair of Talent Trust dance scholarships to support her studies. 

She attended the four-week 2018 Summer Intensive at Canada’s National Ballet School (NBS) in Toronto, and in the fall of 2018 Olivia studied dance at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts in Halifax.

Dancer Mollie Oates-Johnson.

Mollie Oates-Johnson received Talent Trust dance scholarships in 2017 and 2018. 

She’s studied at the Leica Hardy School of Dance and attended summer intensive programs at the School of Alberta Ballet, Dallas Conservatory, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and National Ballet School. 

Mollie was in the lineup for KiDanCo’s spring 2018 season and more recently appeared in the beloved holiday favourite The Nutcracker at the Rebecca Cohn in Halifax.

Alice the Ballet features 35 dancers ages eight to 18 from the conservatory’s award-winning School of Dance, including senior students from the professional program dancing the lead roles.

This adaptation, filled with elaborate costumes, outlandish characters and vivid sets, combines elements of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The ballet is set to the score of Edvard Grieg.

The School of Dance’s annual children’s production provides students and the community with a rare opportunity to experience a full-scale classical ballet.

Children of all ages are welcome to attend a pre-show Alice the Ballet craft event at 12:30 p.m. in the lobby of Spatz theatre. 

During intermissions the audience will be able to have posters signed and photos taken with the dancers from the ballet.

For more information, see the Alice the Ballet Facebook event page.

Details
Alice the Ballet
Sunday, February 17, 2019
1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Spatz Theatre, Halifax

Tickets $20 and $15
Purchase tickets online from the Spatz Theatre.

A Postcard from the Summer Ballet Intensive at the NBS

Summer is the time when most of us expect students to be doing anything but studying. We figure they’re busy with summer jobs, spending time at the beach, hanging out with their friends, and making the most of that brief, magical couple of months when school is out.

It can be a whole other world for arts students. For them, summer is the time for intensives, art residencies and master classes. School is most definitely in.

This summer we got a lovely summer greeting from Olivia MacLean, who received a Talent Trust scholarship to attend a four-week Summer Intensive at Canada’s National Ballet School (NBS) in Toronto.

This isn't a casual thing — students need an invitation from NBS to attend, after passing an audition during the Fall/Winter National Audition Tour. Approximately 175 students attend the summer session each July.

In the photos below we see Olivia with teachers Lin Zhou (left) and Carina Bomers.

  

We were delighted to follow Olivia’s progress over her summer studies and look forward to see what she does next.

This story originally appeared in the Talent Trust August newsletter. Click here to subscribe!

Congratulations Olivia MacLean for winning the Pat Richards Award in Choreography!

Olivia MacLean in the middle

Congratulations Olivia MacLean for your success at Taking Steps to Fly!

Olivia MacLean won the Pat Richards Award through Halifax Dance and the Individual Choreography Award for 18+. 

Taking Steps to Fly is a wonderful opportunity for young choreographers of Nova Scotia to showcase their talents. 

It is a joint project by Dance Nova Scotia and Kinetic Studios Halifax. Dance students are encouraged to create a work in any dance form. The work can be choreographed by one person or by a collective, and can be a solo or group performance. 

More information can be found at https://www.dancens.ca/what-we-do/taking-steps-to-fly/about-taking-steps-to-fly/

Dance NS and Kinetic Studio present Taking Steps To Fly including dancers Kieron Harper, Anais Grant Church, and Olivia MacLean March 25, 2018

https://www.dancens.ca/events-calendar/event/827/

Taking Steps To Fly
presented by Dance NS and Kinetic Studio features many dancers that have received Talent Trust scholarships in the past. 

Including Kieron Harper, Anaïs Grant Church, and Olivia MacLean. 

Sunday, March 25, 2018
at 7 p.m.

at the McInnis Room in the Dalhousie Student's Union Building in Halifax

For more information and tickets please go to 

https://www.dancens.ca/events-calendar/event/827/