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High-profile guests join RWB in Tharp season-opener
THE Royal Winnipeg Ballet is importing two high-profile guest dancers to star in The Princess & The Goblin, its season-opening story ballet by renowned choreographer Twyla Tharp.
The lead role of Princess Irene, who goes on a quest to save a town's children from a goblin, will be danced by Paloma Herrera, a celebrated principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) who is originally from Argentina.
Herrera, 36, has had leading roles created for her in three Tharp ballets at ABT.
The role of Irene's father, King Papa, will be performed by Broadway performer John Selya, 42, a Tony Award-nominated dancer and choreographer who danced with ABT before joining Twyla Tharp Dance in 2000.
The Princess & The Goblin, based on the Victorian children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald, was co-commissioned from Tharp by RWB and Georgia's Atlanta Ballet. It had its world première in Atlanta in February. Neither Herrera nor Selya performed in it in Atlanta.
Tharp has been in Winnipeg since the Labour Day weekend revising the ballet for its Canadian première, Oct. 17-21 at Centennial Concert Hall.
Herrera and Selya will not appear in all performances. The leads from the RWB company who will alternate with them have not been announced.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 13, 2012 D5
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