Calgary dancer James Stout finds his own character in Frida GlobeArts
. Sitting in a company office a few hours before curtain-up, the 31-year-old, who climbed the company’s ranks steadily to become a principal dancer in 2018, is surprisingly calm. “Some ballets are stressful, but this one, you can play with,” said Stout, who attended the School of Alberta Ballet and Vancouver’s Goh Ballet Academy.shows Rivera’s fraught relationship with Kahlo, whom he married twice and cheated on repeatedly.
Dutch National Ballet’s dancers had large shoes to fill. In London, the lead roles were created by two ballet superstars, Tamara Rojo and the Bolshoi-trained Irek Mukhamedov, a larger-than-life presence in the 1980s and 1990s, who came out of retirement just to play Rivera. Stout knows him well, but he says Lopez Ochoa didn’t let the new cast watch videos of their predecessors. “I have a different temperament than Irek.
Regardless, Lopez Ochoa upped the technical ante significantly for the younger male star, who lends Rivera a softer, bewildered quality as he betrays Kahlo, and partners Makhateli with sensitivity. Stout has unusual skills to draw on: His parents, who now live in Vancouver, founded Calgary’s first Argentinian tango club. Tango’s creative, improvisation-based partnering style “leaked over into my career,” Stout says. “I think it’s one of my strengths.
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