The Dreamers Ever Leave You
Excerpts from the Immersive Ballet Inspired by the Work of Lawren Harris
Director: Ben Shirinian
Concept and Choreography: Robert Binet
Original Music: Lubomyr Melnyk
Costume Design: Robyn Clarke
Original Lighting Design: Simon Rossiter, adapted by Jeff Logue
Production Company: Lookout
Producers: Ben Shirinian & Jared Cook
Cinematographer: Cameron Roden
Editor: Murilo Almeida
Production Coordinator: Marissa Scannura
Camera Assist: Miha Matevzic
Guest Rehearsal Assistants: Stephanie Hutchison and Alejandra Perez-Gomez
Featuring
Robert Binet
Christopher Gerty
Peng-Fei Jiang
Tirion Law
Noah Parets
Genevieve Penn Nabity
Thank You
BMO Financial Group presents the 2020/21 Season.
The original presentation of The Dreamers Ever Leave You was co-produced by the Art Gallery of Ontario and The National Ballet of Canada and generously supported by Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan, Kevin Garland, Joan & Jerry Lozinski and The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C.
Lead philanthropic support for Spotlight Series is provided by The Walter Carsen New Creations Fund with additional support from The Producers’ Circle.
The Producers’ Circle: Gail & Mark Appel, John & Claudine Bailey, Inger Bartlett & Marshal Stearns, Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney, Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance, The Thor E. and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation, Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan, Kevin Garland & Roger Garland, C.M., Ira Gluskin & Maxine Granovsky Gluskin, The William & Nona Heaslip Foundation, Anna McCowan Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C., Judy Korthals & Peter Irwin, Mona & Harvey Levenstein, Jerry & Joan Lozinski, The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C., Julie Medland, Sandra Pitblado & Jim Pitblado, C.M., The Harry & Lillian Seymour Family Foundation, Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan and The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation.
Christopher Gerty is sponsored through Dancers First by Ms. Nancy Viner & Dr. Raymond Stein.
Noah Parets is sponsored through Dancers First by John Covington Jr and Robert Lukey.
Editing: Sean Leonard
The National Ballet of Canada acknowledges our creative home on the sacred and traditional territories of the Anishinabek, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat. We acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit and the Williams Treaty signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands. We support the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.