Seasons of Love
By Enigma Performance Company		Enigma Performance Company - Winnipeg, MB
V.1 - John Hirsch Mainstage 
Seasons of Love is a dance journey set to timeless music, featuring selections of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, recomposed by Max Richter. Like the turning of the year, love moves through cycles. Warmth and light, storm and stillness. It lifts us, transforms us, and leaves its mark. But nothing beautiful comes without a cost. Through movement and dance, this performance explores the ever-shifting nature of love, where joy and sorrow are inseparable and every ending holds the promise of something new.

Director:
Anthony Ferens

  		Show Info:
60 minutes
Genre:
Dance

Audience:
General



English as a new language		Thu July 17 12:45 PM
Fri July 18 6:45 PM
Mon July 21 11:00 AM
Tue July 22 8:30 PM
Wed July 23 10:30 PM
Fri July 25 2:45 PM
Sat July 26 8:30 PM

Seasons of Love

Enigma Performance Company—John Hirsch Mainstage

This group excels when they are moving as a group. Their synchronized choreography is extremely technically impressive, but once they break off into groups it becomes messier. Certain moments through the ‘seasons’ seemed to lack intentionality in movement, which ultimately was distracting. It was quickly apparent what form of ‘love’ each season represented, but this made the storytelling feel transparent and I wasn’t quite as gripped as I felt I could be. The program explained to me that this was a collaborative endeavour, and I always appreciate those, but a firmer hand on the wheel could have lifted this piece from a fun, exploratory exercise to something beautifully evocative.

Arden Pruden