A few years ago, before retiring from her role as artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, Karen Kain decided to direct a show. “We needed a new Swan Lake,” she says at the top of the new ...
TORONTO — Attracting younger audiences has become the Holy Grail for arts organizations around the world, but the National Ballet of Canada seems to be achieving that goal via a multipronged strategy ...
Battery Dance announces the second installment of Battery Dance Festival +, an extension of its annual summer festival that went virtual for the first time in August, attracting nearly 30,000 viewers ...
Like many performing artists, choreographer Alysa Pires doesn’t typically read reviews. But when The New York Times sent a critic to her latest premiere, she couldn’t resist taking a peek. With the ...
Canada’s ballet companies are either tilting at windmills or, like Sancho Panza, they’ve discovered that the perfect companion on a quest to advance their art form, challenge their dancers and sell ...
Prima ballerina Natalia Makarova will dance in Chicago for the first time since 1982 as an additional offering on the National Ballet of Canada`s March 16 and 17 progams at the Auditorium Theatre, 50 ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Canadian Ballet was in control throughout in winning the Lena Spencer overnight stakes in wire-to-wire fashion. Ridden by Alan Garcia, Canadian Ballet waltzed through the early ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Canada is certainly a land of immigrants and it shows in the diversity of ...
Canadian Sarah Kaufman ponders the difference in dancing "The Nutcracker" and cracking skulls in a cage, and is quick to appreciate fighting's low-maintenance ways. "You don't have to worry about fake ...
A mood of discovery percolated Thursday night through UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall, as the Bay Area greeted the National Ballet of Canada for the first time in 13 years. The National is both a ...
In a classic case of a small-town girl gone big, Mia Martina's story begins in an improbable setting and carries on through to finding her first single, "Stereo Love," at the tenth spot in the ...