Legendary Canadian artist Joni Mitchell in collaboration with internationally acclaimed choreographer Jean Grand-Maitre of the Alberta Ballet Company created “The Fiddle and The Drum” a special ballet that speaks volumes of Joni Mitchell’s life-long concerns about environmental neglect and the warring nature of mankind.
This narrative ballet danced in neo-classical style was performed to 49 minutes of Mitchell’s provocative music. This ballet is a celebration of the profoundly humanistic questions and testimonies that are expressed so poetically by Joni Mitchell, a world-renowned poet. Three art forms combine as Alberta Ballet’s commanding dancers move their powerful bodies and their ethereal souls within a protective world of sound, color and texture that Ms. Mitchell has created.
The dynamic set was fully designed by Mitchell and includes the first release of Mitchell’s latest artwork, which is projected on a large canvass drum style screen during the ballet.
The Alberta Ballet Company gives metaphorical life to her eternal music while, in tandem, her art works appear above them. Ms. Mitchell’s most recent artistic creations are deeply inspired by man’s warring nature and mark a dramatic change in her sense of aesthetics. These iconic images were literally choreographed by Ms. Mitchell to appear at key moments with particular lyrics in her songs.
“The Fiddle and The Drum” was produced by Joe Media Group in High Definition at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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1 x 60 Documentary
Key Creative:
Executive Producer - Joe Novak, Matt Gillespie
Music/Design - Joni Mitchell
Director - Mario Rouleau
Producer - Karen Pickles
Co-Producer - Deborah Osborne
Choreographer - Jean Grande-Maître
Broadcast Partners:
CTV Globemedia/Bravo!
International Distributor:
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Photo courtesy of: Charles Hope Photography. Design: Fever Communications |
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