Sonia Rodriguez
Fifty Years of Swan Lake
Karen Kain to retire as artistic director of The National Ballet of Canada
Posted November 14, 2019
The National Ballet of Canada Embarks on their First Tour of Russia
The National Ballet of Canada is touring to Russia for the first time in the company’s sixty-seven year history.
Posted October 17, 2018
Emerging Arts Critics Programme
The Demise of Desire
By Annick MacAskillThe National Ballet of Canada’s premiere of choreographer John Neumeier’s A Streetcar Named Desire is an aesthetic triumph and a thought-provoking comment on the destructive nature of repressed sexuality and violence.
Posted June 17, 2017
Emerging Arts Critics Programme
A Haunting Ballet That Does Not Leave the Mind
By Victoria EllinghamAs the audience filtered in to take their seats at the Four Seasons Centre on the evening of June 3rd, they were met with the sight of a lone chair, haphazardly left on its side in the middle of stage.
Posted June 10, 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
Emerging Arts Critics Programme
Cinderella
By Dina GinzburgA great performance requires more than exquisite technique, as National Ballet of Canada principal dancers Sonia Rodriguez and Guillaume Côté continue to prove.
Posted November 19, 2016
Emerging Arts Critics Programme
Cinderella in the Jazz Age
By Victoria EllinghamThe National Ballet of Canada’s Cinderella is certainly not aiming to be flowery. The moment the lights engulf the stage on opening night, November 12, it is obvious this will not be another baroque production.
Posted November 19, 2016
Emerging Arts Critics Programme
Le Petit Prince
By Grace Wells-SmithFull of flash and innovation, Le Petit Prince is a step in a different direction for The National Ballet of Canada.
Posted June 12, 2016
Emerging Arts Critics Programme
Nothing Petit About It
By Liz OstilNoticeable excitement hums within the walls of the Four Seasons Centre on opening night as audience members settle into their seats before a giant, projected paper scrawled with the name of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s tiniest hero.
Posted June 11, 2016
