Winter here is too long. Finally spring is round the corner.

To celebrate (and perhaps hurry) the coming of Spring 2009, YDT presented Awakening. Dancers performed nine pieces to music by composers ranging from Antonio Vivaldi to Nuyorican Soul and including Andreas Vollenweider and Claude Debussy.

The show featured classic choreography by Marius Petipa and Jean Coralli with Jules Perrot as well as contemporary interpretations of newer and classical music by Erik Abbot-Main, Wendi DuBois, Rhonda Kendzicky and Carrie Schotte.

YDT was honoured to have live accompaniment by Nathan Peters, Lester Castellana and Sara Cumming for Vivaldi's Winter to open the show and to have Cynthia Standefer, Nathan Peters, Ian Cumming and Sara Cumming perform Mozart's Flute Quartet In D Major when it needed a few extra minutes back-stage.

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