Tonight & Saturday: "Going Home Star" at Queen Elizabeth Theatre

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet company brings its powerful GOING HOME STAR – TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION to Vancouver, Thursday, April 7 to Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 8pm at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

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Commissioned by Artistic Director André Lewis, Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation explores the world of Annie, a young, urban First Nations woman adrift in a contemporary life of youthful excess. But when she meets Gordon, a longhaired trickster disguised as a homeless man, she’s propelled into a world she’s always sensed but never seen. Not only do they travel the streets of this place but also the roads of their ancestors, learning to accept the other’s burdens as the two walk through the past and toward the future. Together, both Annie and Gordon learn that without truth, there is no reconciliation.

In memory of the late Elder Mary Richard (Ah Kha Ko cheesh) who inspired the RWB.

RUN TIME
Act 1 – 53 minutes
Intermission – 20 minutes
Act 2 – 40 minutes
Total Run Time – 1:53

WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING

“Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation may be the most important dance mounted by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in its illustrious 75 year history … It has visibly catalyzed the entire company; I have never seen the RWB dance better.” – Robert Enright, CBC

“By presenting what is likely the world’s first full-length First Nations-inspired ballet, Going Home Star also ensures the RWB’s own place in dance history, with its message of hope, cast against a backdrop of ever-rising numbers of murdered and missing aboriginal women, never more desperately needed.” – Holly Harris, Winnipeg Free Press

“Godden and his collaborators see light at the end of the tunnel, where damaged souls can find closure.” – Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail