Alberta Ballet is thrilled to announce that approximately 100 tickets have become available for the World Premiere performance of Love Lies Bleeding, May 6th  in Calgary!

With opening night plans wrapping up and a high demand for tickets, approximately 100 seats are being made available today for this world premiere performance. Great seats are still available for the added matinees on May 8 and 9,  and for the newest added performance on Mother’s Day – Sunday, May 9 at 7:30 P.M.

This major world premiere unites a powerful creative team of five designers with Alberta Ballet’s internationally acclaimed Artistic Director/Choreographer Jean Grand-Maître in what is sure to be the ballet event of the season in Canada. Alberta Ballet’s internationally acclaimed roster of dancers will soar and give athletic life to fourteen of the 20th century’s most memorable songs. This contemporary semi-abstract ballet will take the audience through a series of theatrically dynamic and provocative tableaux into the wild and powerful world of pop music super stardom.

Love Lies Bleeding, inspired by and featuring the music of Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin, premieres in Calgary May 6-9, 2010 and Edmonton May 11-12, 2010. Tickets are available online at albertaballet.com or through Alberta Ballet Box Office locations in Edmonton and Calgary or by calling 403-245-4549 in Calgary or 780-428-6839 in Edmonton.

All performances take place at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton and the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary.