Toronto

Barbara Diabo's Community Project: Life is Good Thanks / photo by Tamara Romanchuk

Writers & Readers

(Re)Connecting the Circle

By Amy Hull

Claudia Moore’s MOonhORsE Dance Theatre presented Older & Reckless #42 in November of 2019. Amy Hull responds to the six works presented by artists Bill Coleman, Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo, Christine Friday, Elizabeth Langley, JP Longboat, Byron Chief Moon, and Lee Maracle.

Posted March 30, 2020

Emerging Arts Critics Programme

Connecting With a Classic

By Nicole Decsey

Ratmansky’s choreography is cutting edge while keeping the classical beauty of the ballet alive.

Posted March 28, 2020

Emerging Arts Critics Programme

Rivalling the Classics

By Thomas Dobronyi

Commissioned for the National Ballet’s sixtieth anniversary, Ratmansky’s production has since become a touring showpiece for the company, earning its place alongside more canonical versions.

Posted March 26, 2020

Sara Porter

Getting to know your fruit

Performance | Spectacle

Toronto ON
May 7-10 mai 2020
Multidisciplinary

Club Latin

Club Latin @ Parkway Forest

Workshop | Classe

Toronto ON
April 12-7 juin 2020
Latin

Canada's Ballet Jorgen

Anne of Green Gables – The Ballet™

Performance | Spectacle

Toronto ON
July 24-26 juillet 2020
Ballet

Emerging Arts Critics Programme

Everything That Rises Must Converge

By Marie Trotter

Leap day reliably recurs once every four years, but the National Ballet’s mixed program Angels’ Atlas with Chroma & Marguerite and Armand was an even rarer temporal event in our journey around the sun. The February 29 opening of this eccentric program was an evening of stylistic whiplash never to be seen again.

Posted March 11, 2020

Emerging Arts Critics Programme

When Stars Collide

By Joshua Chong

A homecoming, a tantalizing taster and a farewell celebration highlighted The National Ballet of Canada’s triple bill, which opened at the Four Seasons Centre on February 29.

Posted March 11, 2020

On the Ground

Ballet, Drag and Everything In Between

By Sean Young

Brooke Lynn Hytes, season eleven runner-up and first Canadian queen on RuPaul’s Drag Race, is sashaying back to her hometown, Toronto. She’ll be performing with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo on March 7 and 8 at the Winter Garden Theatre.

Posted March 4, 2020

Nederlands Dans Theater, Crystal Pite, Hofesh Shechter, Sol León, Paul Lightfoot

The Statement - Crystal Pite, VLADIMIR - Hofesh Shechter, Singulière Odyssée - Sol León and Paul Lightfoot

Performance | Spectacle

Toronto ON
March 21 mars 2020
Contemporary

Ryerson dance students in AGO Live: 100 Years of Merce Cunningham / Photo by Marlowe Porter

On the Ground

The Dancers Are the Work

By Selma Odom

Dylan Crossman speaks with Selma Odom about his restaging of Changing Steps, discussing the influence of Merce Cunningham’s philosophy on his dancing, teaching, and choreographing.

Posted February 25, 2020