Journey: A Mythical Dance Fantasy

The three-segment elaborate dance fantasy Journey employs a wide range of dance elements, ranging from classical dance to scaling vertical rock faces, climbing giant nets, flying through the air on bungee cables and dancing in a sea only two inches deep. Performed by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (with featured dancers Evelyn Hart, Louis Robitaille, and Robert Desrosiers), part one follows a woman's search for inner harmony while part two represents the male journey as a Ulyssian voyage. In part three boy meets girl and the story is resolved happily with a pas de deux. Demeter, the Greek goddess of fertility, served as the inspiration for the female journey, but I racked my brain and couldn't come up with the connection. This certainly does not detract from the performance, however, which is provocative and beautifully staged. Recommended for serious dance collections. Aud: H, C, P. (V. Elliott)