Dracula: Past representations of this story weigh too heavily on this performance
Dracula, choreographed by Mark Godden, a production of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
Created in 1999 and performed for the first time at the opening of the 2005/06 Season of the Company, it also came to the NAC for the first time in 2006.
This was a ballet waiting to be staged with its luscious reputation of Gothic horror, based on Bram Stoker’s book (1897) that fueled so many exciting movies such as the Horror of Dracula which gave us the suave seductive count played by Christopher Lee, the first of a series of British films (1958 etc..) where we also met Peter Cushing as Ven Helsing. Also in the tradition was Murnau’s silent film Nosferatu in 1922 (starring Max Shreck) a later adaptation from Stoker’s character that caused years of court cases because the script was not officially authorized by Stoker. And since then, the legend has been recreated and reimagined by so many artists of the screen. …