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Dracula: Past representations of this story weigh too heavily on this performance

Dracula: Past representations of this story weigh too heavily on this performance

 

Dracula Photo WayneGlowacki Winnipeg Free Press. Sarah Davey

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.  

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