Heather Ogden to retire from the National Ballet of Canada after 29 years
Principal Dancer Heather Ogden will retire at the end of The National Ballet of Canada’s 2026/27 season, after a 29-year career with the company.
Guillaume Côté
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The National Ballet of Canada: a farewell to Guillaume Côté, and a “hello London” with the National Ballet on tour
Principal Dancer Guillaume Côté will retire after 26 years with the National Ballet of Canada, and the company tours to London.
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[Review] Nureyev Legend and Legacy – a programme full of ‘wow wee’ moments
Guest author Matthew Paluch attends London’s starry gala ‘Nureyev Legend and Legacy’.
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The National Ballet of Canada 2022-2023 Season
The National Ballet of Canada announces 2022-2023 season which includes the world premiere of MADDADDAM by Wayne McGregor and Margaret Atwood.
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Karen Kain to Retire as Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada
Karen Kain will retire as Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada in January 2021 and will be named Artistic Director Emeritus. She has been the company’s Artistic Director since 2005. Toronto Life once said, Under the reign of Karen Kain, The National Ballet of Canada has flowered into one of the most thrilling…
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Greta Hodgkinson receives a special gift from The National Ballet of Canada on her retirement
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…
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Karen Kain’s 50th Anniversary at National Ballet of Canada
2019/20 Season: Karen Kain’s 50th Anniversary New Swan Lake by Karen Kain Three World Premieres and Three Company Premieres Tour to Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. New Choreographic Associate Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, has announced that she will direct and stage a new Swan Lake for the 2019/20 season in…
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The National Ballet of Canada’s first performance in Russia to be livestreamed
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…
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Skylar Campbell and Francesco Gabriele Frola Promoted to Principal Dancer at The National Ballet of Canada
Six Promotions in 2018/19 Season Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, yesterday announced six promotions for the 2018/19 season: Skylar Campbell and Francesco Gabriele Frola to Principal Dancer, Jack Bertinshaw to First Soloist, Christopher Gerty, Spencer Hack and Miyoko Koyasu to Second Soloist. Quick Facts Born: Laguna Beach, California Trained: With Victor and Tatiana Kasatsky in Orange County, California Joined: 2009 Principal Dancer since: 2018 Skylar Campbell recently…
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Robert Lepage and Guillaume Côté’s new dance work Frame by Frame to come to Sadler’s Wells
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…
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National Ballet of Canada brings its stars to Paris in Neumeier’s Nijinsky
The National Ballet of Canada brings John Neumeier‘s ballet Nijinsky to Paris in October. The performances mark the National Ballet’s return to Paris for first the time in 45 years. Nijinsky will run from 3–8 October at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. The company’s Artistic Director, Karen Kain, announced the principal casting earlier today. Principal Dancer Guillaume Côté and First Soloists Skylar…
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Canadian Ballet welcomes 72 Syrian refugees
The National Ballet of Canada will welcome a group of new Canadians to experience the magic of ballet. With the assistance of COSTI Immigrant Services, 72 Syrian refugees will attend the ‘Share the Magic’ performance of Alexei Ratmansky‘s Romeo and Juliet on 15 March. Since 1986, the National Ballet’s ‘Share the Magic’ program has introduced ballet to those…
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Guillaume Côté’s choreographic gem starring Greta Hodgkinson now available worldwide
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…
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Roberto Bolle becomes a King of Dance for London début (with surprise Queen)
The Kings of the Dance gets its first Re Italiano, as Roberto Bolle joins the roster of some of ballet’s most exciting male dancers, for the latest edition of the roadshow. The new tour will bring together American Ballet Theatre‘s Marcelo Gomes and Ivan Vasiliev, the Mariinsky’s Denis Matvienko, and the Mikhailovsky‘s Leonid Sarafanov, all who have been seen…
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National Ballet of Canada brings Ratmansky’s Romeo and Juliet to London
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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Critics round-up: Strictly Gershwin with the English National Ballet at London’s Royal Albert Hall
Difficult-to-please Clement Crisp gives a four-star crit for the English National Ballet‘s dance show “Strictly Gershwin”: For this show is jolly, welcoming, coasting along on tunes that everyone knows, and it is done with a fine sense of theatre, which has ever been Deane’s forte. In this revival, it is even more slick and brassy…
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Ballet Twitter pics
Smartphone photos linked onto a tweet are a great way to let Twitter followers get a glimpse of where you are and what you’re up to. Everyone’s at it from Hollywood stars to football louts. Ballet dancers, creative by nature, are often clicking away and sometimes the results are shared. Now boys love toys, so…
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Balanchine’s Jewels finally sparkle at La Scala
In less than a fortnight the La Scala company has turned out its jewel-box and polished each precious stone. The shambled mess that was meant to be Balanchine’s choreography has become precise, witty and, mainly, as Balanchine probably would have wanted it. Italy’s most read newspaper, the Corriere della Sera, titled its review “Balanchine’s Jewels…
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La Scala ballet company brings Roland Petit’s “Pink Floyd Ballet” to Istanbul
After last year’s surprise hit at Milan’s La Scala of a revival of Petit’s “Pink Floyd Ballet” with Svetlana Zakharova, Massimo Murru, Guillaume Côté and Altankhuyag Dugaraa, the company are now touring the production to Turkey. From tonight in Istanbul Congress Centre the La Scala ballet will perform five performances over the next four days. “Our goal in bringing this project to…
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