The National Ballet of Canada
Emerging Arts Critics Programme
All in Sequence
By David RudinWayne McGregor’s Genus and Jerome Robbins’ The Concert are both elaborate choreographies that hinge on the smallest of movements – the twitch of a finger, the crook of an elbow or the flick of a wrist.
Posted April 6, 2017
Emerging Arts Critics Programme
Truly Mixed: Genus, Tarantella, Self and Soul and The Concert
By Valeria NunziatoFour disparate works, precisely crafted by four distinguished artists, make one inspiring collection of dance for The National Ballet of Canada’s mixed program.
Posted April 6, 2017
Remembering Penelope Reed Doob
Penelope Reed Doob, an influential dance scholar, historian and critic, died March 11, 2017, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
Posted April 5, 2017
Winter Awards and News 2017
Holly Bright of Crimson Coast Dance Society was awarded one of two 2017 John Hobday Awards in Arts Management, Salomé Nieto won the 2017 VIDF Choreographic Award, Karen Kain, artistic director of The National Ballet of Canada (NBoC) has chosen to mentor Robert Binet, a choreographic associate of NBoC, as part of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Mentorship Program, Meredith Kalaman and Arash Khakpour received Dance Victoria’s Chrystal Dance Prize for Independent Dance Artsis, Katherine Semchuk won the New Work Award from Good Women Dance Collective. In other news, Ballet BC announced the appointment of John Clark as the company’s new Executive Director.
Posted April 3, 2017
Moving Others
The relationship between audience engagement and attendance By Emma DoranMost dance artists and presenters must negotiate the tension between creating work that meets their artistic goals, that is accessible to their community and that provides the fiscal support required to live as an artist and to run a company. Emma Doran speaks with artists, organizations and presenters across the country to discuss how they envision their audience, how they are seeking to reach those individuals and what constitutes meaningful engagement with them.
Posted March 31, 2017
Emerging Arts Critics Programme
Will Tuckett’s Pinocchio: A Canadian Talkie Ballet
By Dina GinzburgFrom plaid-clad, bearded lumberjacks, to backdrops evoking Group of Seven paintings, to a monstrous whale inhabiting the waters of a Nova Scotian fishing village, The National Ballet of Canada’s Pinocchio pays homage to the country hosting British choreographer Will Tuckett.
Posted March 18, 2017
Emerging Arts Critics Programme
Pinocchio: Hybridized Ballet
By Sabrina PapasIf the audience of the opening night performance of Pinocchio was expecting a wholly classic, balletic rendition when the curtain rose, choreographer Will Tuckett defied those expectations.
Posted March 18, 2017
Dancer's Kitchen
Greta's Slow-Cooked Lasagna
During the postpartum period, Greta Hodgkinson, who is celebrating her twentieth year as a principal dancer with The National Ballet of Canada, focuses on getting enough food and nutrition while breastfeeding and returning to training.
Posted March 16, 2017
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