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The Drum Beat Continues

By Amy Zicker
January 28, 2009

Now is not the time for the fiddle.

Opening to an anti-war song of the same name, the Alberta Ballet's performance of Joni Mitchell's The Fiddle and the Drum this past Sunday at the Vic Juba Community Theatre constructed a beautiful emotive landscape that managed to scold the entire audience for the far too many wretched human-based events taking place.

The biting tone of the 11 song set was clear from the very rising of the curtain.

It is here we are greeted by a nearly bare-skinned, chiseled-out man (whose robust physique is accentuated by blue lines marking the definition in his chest and leg muscle). The strength in his creation is all too evident to the onlooking audience. He is soon joined by the full ballet company – also toned and donned in beige/green leotard.

Only as members of the company slowly put on soldiers helmets, and one by one fall to the ground does the frailty of each human life – even in its most immaculate form – also become recognizable, as does each person's capacity to destroy life.

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