Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s artistic director to step down in 2025, ending 50-year career
“I love the physicality and I love the artistic intent behind that physicality. That’s what drew me to ballet in the first place. I adore the ability to put emotions into motion.”
The company said in a statement Thursday that the board of directors has begun the transition and will launch an international recruitment plan to hire his successors.Lewis’s role will be split into two, with new people coming on to take over as executive director by June 2023 and artistic director by 2024.
“For the last, let’s say three years, it’s been on my mind. What do I do, how do I do it? And I will reach age 70 at one point — it’s not so much the age, it’s just I want to do other things,” he said., Lewis reflects on his long career, in which he oversaw 30 years of productions as artistic director, and commissioned new works, like“I’ve had this incredible privilege of serving this organization, and serving the people, the students, the dancers, and the administrative staff.
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