“Clearly the crowd-pleaser, “SCRAP” was created by Canadian choreographer Cameron Fraser-Monroe, set to the infectious music of jazz trumpeter Delbert Anderson and his quartet — a fusion of music from Anderson’s Navajo heritage, funk and jazz.” — The Seattle Times

“The rhythmically charged piece in Fraser-Monroe’s imagined subterrabean world, driven by a pastiche score by Juno-nominated, two-spirit composer Cris Derkson, becomes a combustion of classical technique and contemporary idiom, with its all-male ensemble sections particularly strong.”
- Holly Harris, Winnipeg Free Press on STAVE for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet

“One of the most potent images comes as T’əl is tricked by Erica and burned in fire; a sextet of dancers en pointe suddenly morph into licking flames before transforming into ‘Noseeums,’ a.k.a. mosquitoes, as a final remnant of this archetypal figure.”
— Winnipeg Free Press

Fraser-Monroe weaves together his classical ballet training and knowledge of traditional Coast Salish, Grass, and Hoop Dance to tell the traditional story 'Raven Returns the Water'.”
— Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre

“Clearly the crowd-pleaser, “SCRAP” was created by Canadian choreographer Cameron Fraser-Monroe, set to the infectious music of jazz trumpeter Delbert Anderson and his quartet — a fusion of music from Anderson’s Navajo heritage, funk and jazz.” — The Seattle Times

“The rhythmically charged piece in Fraser-Monroe’s imagined subterrabean world, driven by a pastiche score by Juno-nominated, two-spirit composer Cris Derkson, becomes a combustion of classical technique and contemporary idiom, with its all-male ensemble sections particularly strong.”

- Holly Harris, Winnipeg Free Press on STAVE for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet

“One of the most potent images comes as T’əl is tricked by Erica and burned in fire; a sextet of dancers en pointe suddenly morph into licking flames before transforming into ‘Noseeums,’ a.k.a. mosquitoes, as a final remnant of this archetypal figure.”— Winnipeg Free Press

Fraser-Monroe weaves together his classical ballet training and knowledge of traditional Coast Salish, Grass, and Hoop Dance to tell the traditional story 'Raven Returns the Water'.”— Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre

“One of the most potent images comes as T’əl is tricked by Erica and burned in fire; a sextet of dancers en pointe suddenly morph into licking flames before transforming into ‘Noseeums,’ a.k.a. mosquitoes, as a final remnant of this archetypal figure.”
— Winnipeg Free Press

Fraser-Monroe weaves together his classical ballet training and knowledge of traditional Coast Salish, Grass, and Hoop Dance to tell the traditional story 'Raven Returns the Water'.”
— Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre