Images: Banff Summer Arts Festival 2008
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Leslie Davis performs as Phaedra. Benjamin Britten’s Phaedra and Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas will be performed in the Eric Harvie Theatre on July 31 and August 2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be performed on July 30, August 1 and 3.
Credit: Don Lee
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In forefront from left: Rose-Ellen Nichols as Dido, Brent Calis as Aeneas, Sarah Halmarson as Belinda.
Credit: Don Lee
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Dance
Elana Lobsanova and Tristan Dobrowney in the Festival Dance performance of George Balanchine’s Divertimento.
Credit: Donald Lee
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The Festival Dance ensemble in Peggy Baker’s Julio Luomo.
Credit: Donald Lee
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Nikki Holck with Isaac Akiba, Mark Dennis, and Yoo Sang Hong in the Festival Dance performance of Robert Glumbek’s Prefigured Effect.
Credit: Donald Lee
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Yoo Sang Hong, Isaac Akiba, and Mark Dennis in Robert Glumbek’s Prefigured Effect.
Credit: Donald Lee
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The Festival Dance ensemble in Robert Glumbek’s Prefigured Effect.
Credit: Donald Lee
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Joni Mitchell’s poetic metaphors serve as a setting for the Alberta Ballet dancers as they perform The Fiddle and The Drum, September 5.
Credit: Music and visual design by Joni Mitchell, choreography by Jean Grand-Maître, photography by Charles Hope, Alberta Ballet Company
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Maestro Lior Shambadal leads the Banff Festival Orchestra on Sundays, Aug 10 and Aug 17.
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Celebrated cellist Rafael Wallfisch is one of the guest musicians for the 2008 Banff Summer Arts Festival music program.
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Celebrating their 15th anniversary, the Juno award-winning Gryphon Trio takes centre stage with guest violist Barry Shiffman, June 13.
Credit: Kazuki Ishikura
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Performing Arts
Amanda Lisman, left, and Noa May Dorn in Pride and Prejudice. The premiere presentation of The Banff Centre’s Professional Theatre program was in the Eric Harvie Theatre August 21 to 23.
Credit: Don Lee
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Amanda LeBlanc, left, and Lally Cadeau in Pride and Prejudice.
Credit: Don Lee
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From left to right: Rejean Cournoyer, Amanda Lisman, Spencer Atkinson, James MacDonald, and Anna Hardwick in Pride and Prejudice.
Credit: Don Lee
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Red Sky Performance previews Tono: Higher, Faster, Stronger July 3 to 5. Photo: Laura Vanags.
Credit: Laura Vanags
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Mongolian singers Batmend Baasankhuu (at left), Tuvshinijargal
Damdinjav, and Bat-Orshikh Bazarvaani, from Red Sky Performance's Tono: Higher,
Faster, Stronger.
Credit: Laura Vanags
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Red Sky Performance previews Tono: Higher, Faster, Stronger
July 3 to 5. Photo: Laura Vanags.
Credit: Laura Vanags
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Playbill
An extraordinary guitarist, Africa’s Habib Koité and his band Bamada perform in the outdoor amphitheatre, August 11.
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Walter Phillips Gallery
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Installation view, Bureau de Change at the Walter Phillips Gallery.
Photo: Laura Vanags.
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Installation view, Bureau de Change at the Walter Phillips Gallery.
Photo: Laura Vanags.
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Installation view, Bureau de Change at the Walter Phillips Gallery.
Photo: Laura Vanags.
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Installation view, Bureau de Change at the Walter Phillips Gallery.
Photo: Laura Vanags.
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Alison Rossiter
History of Art - Janson, 2004
Book photogram (variation)
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Liz Magor
Banff Chair, 1991
Steel base, soft polyurethane foam, synthetic
fur, deerskin gloves
McMaster University Collection
Photo: Isaac Applebaum
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Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Night Canoeing, 2004 (detail)
Installation
Courtesy Barbara Weiss, Luhring Augustine Gallery and the artists
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Janet Rose Werner
Red Hair/Lisa, 1998
Acrylic on canvas
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery
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Bill Burns
Bird Radio, 2003-2007
Multimedia installation and radio broadcast
From the show Radio Free Banff
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Banff Playwrights Colony
Playwright Daniel MacIvor participates in the Banff Playwrights Colony 35th Anniversary Celebration May 10.
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Jazz
Three weeks of jazz culminates with the audacious, rule-breaking trio, The Bad Plus, May 31.
Credit: Michael Dvorak
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Yosvany Terry and the Afro-Cuban Roots Project kicks off the Saturday Night Jazz series May 17.
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Dave Douglas, director of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, leads an all star evening on May 24.
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