Catch This: the Canadians are coming to dance

Today in local dance

Canadian stars Joni Mitchell and Jean Grand-Maître, artistic director of Alberta Ballet (below), bring their contemporary dance collaboration, The Fiddle and the Drum, to the Paramount tonight.

Mitchell is the creator of some of the best national anthems for the woebegone. Grand-Maître choreographed the opening and closing ceremonies for the winter games in Vancouver. Together, they bring you an emotional and sensual contemplation on the bipolar tendencies of human nature: love and hate, war and peace — all set to songs by Mitchell and complemented by the songwriter's original artwork.

Paramount Theatre, 7:30pm, $30 - $72
stgpresents.org, 877.784.4849

Photo by Charles Hope