Performance landscape: Landscape for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Alexander Dock, Winnipeg, Canada

Prompted by a question that has irritated me for a long time -- "where is Winnipeg?" - I began to think about Winnipeg's profile. As the capital of a province and the biggest city in central Canada, Winnipeg deserves a higher profile. Winnipeg people are impressive in that they are very proud of their hometown. Basic resources are here, like the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Royal Canadian Mint and, even, Winnie the Pooh. What the city needs is what I have called a "city profile". The profile will provide a context to highlight and celebrate Winnipeg's significance, particularly its cultural heritage, and to promote the city to the world.;The proposed ballet landscape has been developed with the involvement of landscape architecture and ballet professionals, and following methods proposed by Myer and Myer in their book People and Places: The Inner Landscape and the Outer Landscape. The basic thesis of that book is that people's activities and nature supplement and complement each other. This suggests that there is no dominant element between landscape and ballet, nature and art, or city and people. Based on the practical requirements of ballet performance, the ballet landscape seeks to create an outdoor theatre with landscape interventions that give due consideration to the RWB's status.;This Practicum proposes a "ballet landscape", which might be one of a series of landscape interventions integrated into the city to enhance its profile. The ballet landscape is used to celebrate the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB)-- the oldest Canadian ballet company. This study will explore a method of making outdoor ballet an integrated part of city planning and design.