Milton is gone, unreachable. Gary becomes a one-man search-party. BB and Anna quietly rebel with a five-minute hiatus from cleaning up Milton's messes - before promptly returning to saving the day.
Episode 7 - The Deconstruction
Alarm bells go off as Milton takes the choreographic process of deconstruction a little too literally. Anna's deconstruction occurs mainly in the knee, as Milton's demands exacerbate an old injury.
Pas-de-deux quickly becomes foot-in-mouth when Milton meets - then promptly forgets - BB's partner, Casey, over and over. Until Milton, consumed in a hypochondriac fever, learns Casey is a physician.
Two new, young dancers arrive full of drive and talent. Milton transforms into a choreographic master, fully inspired... until he realizes he isn't a 21-year-old prodigy anymore.
When you picture ballerina, how do you imagine their hair? In a bun, right? It's iconic. For Off Kilter star Sarah Murphy-Dyson getting her hair in a bun is both practical — it keeps your hair off your face — and freeing. "I can do anything now," she says after getting her hair up in a bun...
Despite Milton’s protests, it’s time to bring in more dancers. BB is alarmed to find out that the gender wage gap is embedded in the ballet world as much as anywhere else.
"Márquez's masterpiece has been one of my go-tos since I was 17. It narrates the founding of the town of Macondo by José Arcadio Buendía and his wife Ursula and the five generations of descendants that followed. Marquez entwines fantasy, magic and adventure, love and heartbreak, brutality and corruption from the first page until the final remarkable sentence..."
"The funniest scenarios come straight from the context of the dancing. If you’ve spent any time in a ballet studio, you’ll be familiar with the bizarre metaphors and analogies that teachers and choreographers come up with in order to put movement into words."
Gary, the venue manager, inflicts a series of absurd safety drills on the team. BB, Luke and Anna debate the fine points of the scandal that sent Milton into hiding 20 years earlier.
"In the course of its eight-episode season, "Off Kilter" nods to some big issues in the dance world. Ageism, the gender pay-gap and sexual harassment are all addressed on some level, in the midst of hijinks caused by an uptight building manager and an enterprising public relations guru."
Milton Frank has come back to the studio after a twenty-year absence, but under no circumstance is anyone to call it a "comeback." This is just for fun. A lark. A whimsical experiment.
"CBC increases investment in digital content with new slate of 17 original titles and 250 new hours of programming streaming exclusively on the CBC TV App and cbc.ca/watch..."
Off Kilter, an eight-part digital series is streaming this spring in Canada via CBC.ca as well as on the CBC TV app, and worldwide on June 12 via YouTube.