Photos: Alberta Ballet takes a walk on the wild side

 

Vancouver audiences gave Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding an enthusiastic reception when it was performed here Oct. 13-15. The gender-bending dance production is set to the music of Elton John and is loosely based on his life.

 
October 18, 2011
 
 
 
A scene from Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding, set to the music of Elton John and loosely based on the performer's life.
 

A scene from Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding, set to the music of Elton John and loosely based on the performer's life.

Photograph by: Charles Hope , For Alberta Ballet

 
A scene from Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding, set to the music of Elton John and loosely based on the performer's life.
Dancers grooving to the rhythms of Bennie and the Jets in Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding, set to the music of Elton John and loosely based on the performer's life.
A scene from Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding, set to the music of Elton John and loosely based on the performer's life.
Yukichi Hattori and Kelley McKinlay in Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding.
Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding.
Yukichi Hattori (Elton Fan) held aloft by his guardian angels in Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding, set to the music of Elton John and loosely based on the performer's life.
Yukichi Hattori and company in Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding, set to the music of Elton John and loosely based on the performer's life.
Dancer Yukichi Hattori as Rocket Man in Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding, set to the music of Elton John and loosely based on the performer's life.
A scene from Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding, set to the music of Elton John and loosely based on the performer's life.
A scene from Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding, set to the music of Elton John and loosely based on the performer's life.
Dancer Yukichi Hattori as Rocket Man in Alberta Ballet's Love Lies Bleeding, set to the music of Elton John and loosely based on the performer's life.
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
The dress rehearsal of Alberta Ballet's production of the new production Love Lies Bleeding at Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary Wednesday, May 5, 2010.
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
The dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010.
The dress rehearsal of Alberta Ballet's production of the new production Love Lies Bleeding at Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary Wednesday, May 5, 2010.
The dress rehearsal of Alberta Ballet's production of the new production Love Lies Bleeding at Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary Wednesday, May 5, 2010.
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
A scene from the dress rehearsal of the Alberta Ballet's production of Love Lies Bleeding, the Elton John Ballet, at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
The dress rehearsal of Alberta Ballet's production of the new production Love Lies Bleeding at Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary Wednesday, May 5, 2010.
Alberta Ballet dancer Kelley McKinlay at the Nat Christie Centre in Calgary. He's playing Elton John in the Alberta Ballet's upcoming production, "Love Lies Bleeding".
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