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National Ballet Sweeps Doras

By Christa Lochead

The The National Ballet of Canada swept the 2009 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, receiving all four Dance Division awards for guest choreographer Crystal Pite’s Emergence, including Outstanding Production, Outstanding Choreography (Pite), Outstanding Performance (the ensemble), and Outstanding Sound Design/Composition (Owen Belton). Choreographers Denise Clarke and Peggy Baker also received an award for Outstanding Choreography in a Play or Musical for Radio Play. The award ceremony took place June 29th, 2009 at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto. The Dora Awards honour performances in theatre, dance and opera and are presented annually by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts. They are named after Canadian theatre pioneer and founder of The New Play Society, Dora Mavor Moore.

Posted July 31, 2009

Patricia Beatty, Co-Founder of Toronto Dance Theatre, Remembered as a ‘Warrior Queen’

Patricia Beatty was a multi-faceted artist: a choreographer, a dancer, a teacher, a poet. She was a true pioneer – one of the most influential figures of modern dance in Canada. She’s best known as co-founder of Toronto Dance Theatre, along with David Earle and Peter Randazzo. Her death at age 84 marked decades of choreography, teaching and writing that inspired thousands of young dancers.

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Swan Lake Syndrome

The forty-minute solo by Toronto-based artist Linnea Swan is a comedic and poignant autobiography of the highs and lows of a life and career in dance – starting with having the last name Swan as a young ballerina.

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