40 YEARS OF ONE NIGHT STANDS...THE STORY OF CANADA'S ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 04:08PM 
The year is 1938. Winnipeg is a lonely place set in the middle of the Manitoba farmlands, a stop-off to somewhere else, a city recovering from the devastation of the Great Depression. It is into this remote centre of the Canadian prairies that two English women arrive – 37-year-old Gweneth Lloyd and 23-year-old Betty Hey. What they don’t know is that here, in this unlikely setting they will start a dance group that will one day be known internationally as the Royal Winnipeg Ballet—the first professional ballet company in Canada.
Born out of nothing in the middle of nowhere, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet set the ballet world on prairie fire. From Flin Flon to Moscow, across 44 countries on six continents, in 573 cities, it wowed audiences and critics alike with its youth, vitality and innocent excitement.
The impossible dream of two determined immigrants grew into what is now the RWB family, surviving fortune, famine, and a devastating fire, to become one of the world’s premiere dance companies.
Through the inspired voices of former RWB company members and rarely seen original dance footage, 40 Years of One Night Stands recounts the dramatic, and challenging first four decades of one of the world’s premier dance companies. A Canadian pioneer tale that takes the audience into" the heart of the RWB and reveals a story bigger than dancing and bigger than the film itself".
In 2009 40 Years of One Night Stands was awarded Best Documentary and Best Directing Awards for Non-Fiction at the Yorkton Golden Sheaf Awards. It also enjoyed its European premier at the Globians Documentary Festival, Berlin. The film is produced by the Gemini award-winning company, Merit Motion Pictures and Inside Out Productions; directed by Peabody Award winner Jeff McKay; and narrated by Tony Award winner Brent Carver.
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