The most spectacular, action-packed
show yet!
The
curtain rises to welcome Olivia Dow’s 6th Original Maltese Ballet
at the Mediterranean Conference Centre on Saturday 4th August 2001 at
7.30pm. which promises to be the most powerful performance so far.
Over 80 of Olivia Dow’s students, many of them now in an advanced
stage of their studies -en pointe- will fill the stage with their unusual
precise routines, their dazzling costumes which, this year, are the
most expensive they ever had, their fiery spirit as they dance into
our hearts as always! They get better every year and Olivia says that
she has no doubt that Giants of Xlendi Bay will be another resounding
success for her students. ‘All the patrons seated at the MCC are
in for a special treat!’
The Giants’ role is played by 9 of Olivia’s tallest in the
school. They have vast experience in the theatre and TV as they have
been now dancing for the last seven years. The ‘ability’ of
the teacher is reflected in the ‘quality’ of the dancers she
is coaching and Olivia is utterly pleased with all of them.
‘Giants of Xlendi Bay is a fictitious story by John Baldacchino,
a tale with some truth in it which can sometimes be stranger than fiction!
Twelve thousand years ago, 10-foot Giants roamed the earth, having first
landed from another planet on a huge island which they called Goshawk,
after a large short-winged hawk which migrated there. The music by Joe
Brown is tremendous.
The island of Goshawk prospered under the Regime of these Giants who
were called ‘Gosmonauts’; these temples were built and still
stand today, proof of a highly motivated civilization. These temples,
the most famous those of Ggantija, stand proud in their majestic beauty
and worldly significance, the oldest on earth!
Unfortunately, in those days, the oxygen level could not very well sustain
the Giants, so they evolved into smaller beings. These genetically-modified
humans expanded their race to the four corners of the world and grew
to many great and powerful nations.
