Emerging Montreal choreographer Gaby Baars, of Dutch origin, presented last spring the pas de deux Dans ma main to music of the same name by Quebec pianist Jean-Michel Blais. He now returns with his first longer-length creation for Les Grands Ballets, Rule 26 ½. In this new piece, he approaches with a frank gaze the inevitable repetitions of everyday life, through which come together the impulses that we all share: desire, loneliness, love, abandonment. While all are carried away by the complexity of the everyday mundane, one thing remains: the intrinsic desire to unite, to love each other.

Recognized internationally for his remarkable career spanning more than five decades, Edouard Lock had not created for Les Grands Ballets for over twenty years. In a long-overdue collaboration, he presents an electrifying solo, the fruit of a choreographic reflection during the pandemic, created for our first dancer Rachele Buriassi.

Two world premieres, one cinematic and one choreographic, occurring on the same stage and on the same night, both authored by Edouard Lock.

A dance intertwined in reflections and shadows, presented in a cinematographic hall of mirrors.

Then the same choreography will follow on stage in one continuous performance, spanning two mediums.

To close this triptych, Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti returns with his luminous piece for 33 dancers, The Four Seasons, presented for the first time in North America by Les Grands Ballets in 2007, and again in 2011.

Mauro Bigonzetti, golden boy of Italian dance and resident choreographer at Aterballetto, successfully carries off the major challenge of expressing something new with the master of Venice’s extremely well-known score, drawing out the internal seasons of man, in all his moods and swings.

“The four seasons are endlessly multiplied within man. Isn't it in this that we see nature? "