It’s Not Easy Making Ballet To Pop Songs, Says Calgary Ballet Director

Jean Grand-Maitre: “They’re easier to make relevant. But … [when] you’re working with a song by Elton John, say, like ‘Rocket Man,’ that people have heard for decades and have their own images of what they ‘see’ to it, then the real challenge is how to take this music and make people ‘see’ it in a different way.”