Dance

The Nutcracker

This Nutcracker audience is replete with little girls, most of them in ribbons and red velvet, all of them unable to keep it together throughout the National Ballet of Canada’s annual showing of the Christmas classic. Even Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”, the most enchanting of... (1)

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All the righteous moves

BY Paul Gallant

Choreographer Lloyd Newson searches for a dance language to confront homophobia

The Four Temperaments, Watch her and Glass Pieces

BY Eleni Deacon

George Balanchine’s spiralling classic The Four Temperaments — which refers to the phlegmatic, melancholic, sanguine and choleric temperaments of medieval times — and Jerome Robbins’ ‘80s favourite...

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Beautiful sight

BY Paul Gallant

Superstar choreographer Aszure Barton gets voyeuristic with the National Ballet

The Sleeping Beauty

This 1972 Rudolf Nureyev version of the classic story (after the original choreographed by Marius Petipa) is something of a Canadian artifact. Nicholas...

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Carmen & Skin Divers

The National Ballet turns up the heat for Luminato with a double billing of the sensual Skin Divers and Carmen, where there’s no shortage of exposed muscle... (1)

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Giselle

It’s rather morbid yet poetic that, for principal Chan Hon Goh’s final show with the National Ballet Company after 20 years, she would be playing the title...

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Romeo and Juliet

Choreographed by the late, great John Cranko, this production originally premiered at the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany and has been performed by the NBC since...

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Innovation

While artistic director Karen Kain has given three of the country’s most promising choreographers free reign to create a short, original piece with her...

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Doing it their way

When composer Aaron Copland wrote Appalachian Spring at the request of renowned choreographer Martha Graham in the 1940s, Graham listened to the score and then, much to Copland’s surprise, rewrote the libretto she had originally given him — Copland’s music...

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