MacArthur Park Suite: A Disco Ballet (2015)
Produced by
Presented by
The SummerWorks Performance Festival
Creator: Ryan G. Hinds
Choreographers: Ryan G. Hinds and Nicola Rose Bond
Venue
Run
August 6th, 2015 – August 12th, 2015
Synopsis
For everyone who’s ever fallen in love and ended up feeling like a cake left out in the rain, MacArthur Park Suite: A Disco Ballet is a fabulous theatrical ballet/jazz/modern dance fantasia on love and heartbreak set to the pounding music of Donna Summer. Originally performed to standing ovations at Buddies in Bad Times’ Rhubarb Festival, MacArthur Park Suite: A Disco Ballet comes to SummerWorks in a newly expanded, two-part form complete with tambourines, tutus…and sweet green icing, flowing down.
MACARTHUR PARK SUITE is set in the 1970s, when euphoric disco ecstasy reigns supreme. The tail end of a broken romance frames a flashback: amongst friends, two hearts come together as sequins, bright lights, and lamé shine while cocaine flies in the air like snow. Time stops for their one of a kind love, before it falls apart in a dramatic and passionate pas de deux.
I FEEL LOVE: REFLECTIONS ON LOVE, LUST, AND LONGING is an introspective and personal meditation on love and its implications by the members of the company as they take a peek inside each other’s hearts: is love the same for everyone? What does it truly mean to feel love? (summerworks.ca)
Cast
| Nicola Rose Bond | Performer |
| Cheryl Chan | Performer |
| Raya Facey | Performer |
| Ryan G. Hinds | Performer |
| Shakeil Rollock | Performer |
| Dylan Shumka-White | Performer |
Creative Team
| Ryan G. Hinds | Creator |
| Ryan G. Hinds | Choreographer |
| Nicola Rose Bond | Choreographer |
| Dylan Shumka-White | Dramaturge |
| Trish Fedora | Costume Designer |
Production
| Aidan Morishita Miki | Stage Manager |
| Dorcas Chiu | Running Crew |
| Michael Lyons | Media Relations |
| Darryl Mabey | Poster Graphic Design |
| Greg Wong | Production Photography |
Staff
| Jamie Monteiro | Venue Technician |
| Matt Armour | Venue Technician |
