Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, has announced that Greta Hodgkinson will retire as Principal Dancer in 2020 after a career that spans 30 years. She will dance the title role in Giselle and appear in Petite Mort in November as well as The Nutcracker in December. Her final performance as…
The National Ballet of Canada‘s first performance in Moscow will be livestreamed across Russia on Yandex. The free livestream will take place on 15 October 2018 from The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre in Moscow where the National Ballet will perform a mixed programme as part of Diana Vishneva’s Context festival. The free livestream…
Robert Lepage and Guillaume Côté‘s new dance work Frame by Frame opens tonight, 1 June, at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto. Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, announced that Sadler’s Wells in London will co-produce Frame by Frame, a collaboration between theatre artist Lepage and Choreographic…
Karen Kain announced today that Mikhail Baryshnikov will attend this year’s annual fundraising gala, MAD HOT BALLET: Northern Lights as its special guest on 6 June 2017 which celebrates Canada’s 150th anniversary. Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, said, Mikhail has always been a truly supportive friend to myself as well as to…
National Ballet of Canada Principal Greta Hodgkinson stars in Guillaume Côté‘s new choreographic piece Being and Nothingness. It was first performed under the wing of the Company in Toronto in 2013. However, Anymotion Productions, an independent company run by Company dancers who previously developed the award-winning Lost in Motion series. Being and Nothingness is a reflection in dance of a…
To get an insider’s view of dance-related injuries, some leading dancers talked to Gramilano about their experiences – how they coped both physically and mentally – and gave advice to help keep a dancer injury-free. Principal dancers from the world’s top companies took time out to share some unpleasant memories in the hope that their…
Q&A When did you start dancing? At 4 years old. Why did you start dancing? As a child, I was always dancing around the house so it made sense. What’s your favourite role? Giselle. What role have you never played but would like to? I would love to dance the role of Baroness Mary Vetsera in Kenneth…
The National Ballet of Canada will perform Alexei Ratmansky‘s new production of Romeo and Juliet from tonight, 17 April, until 21 April at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre. The ballet has obviously been an audience favourite ever since it came to the National Ballet in 1964, but the company’s new version, by Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, which premiered…
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