News
Meredith Potter receives Leonard McHardy and John Harvey Award
The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) has presented Meredith Potter with this year’s Leonard McHardy and John Harvey Award for Outstanding Leadership in Administration.
Posted June 10, 2014
2014 Dora Mavor Moore nominees announced
Nominations for the thirty-fifth annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, which celebrate exceptional work in Toronto’s performing arts scene, were announced on June 2.
Posted June 4, 2014
Duchess of Cornwall visits RWB
Celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary this season, Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet welcomed Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall on May 21.
Posted June 4, 2014
New Programs for Dance Teacher Training
A collaborative effort between several professional dance schools in Montréal yields a new attestation of collegial studies in dance training in one of two specializations, classical or contemporary dance.
Posted May 30, 2014
Reinventing the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault
The Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault announced its upcoming transformation into the Institut de la danse and the reshaping of its mission.
Posted May 23, 2014
New Decidedly Jazz Dance Centre to open in 2015
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (DJD), a company known for putting its own spin on traditional jazz values, is moving to the new twelve-storey Kahanoff Tower, which will open in Calgary in 2015.
Posted May 13, 2014
Ballet Kelowna’s founding artistic director, David LaHay, departs as the season closes
Ballet Kelowna bade farewell to its founding artistic director, David LaHay, at the final performance of the 2013-2014 season.
Posted May 13, 2014
Guillaume Côté to Direct FASS
Big news for Festival des arts de Saint-Sauveur (FASS) with the recent announcement that, in 2015, Artistic Director Anik Bissonnette will hand over the reins of the successful summer festival to none other than National Ballet of Canada (NBoC) star Guillaume Côté.
Posted May 12, 2014
Québec Dances for April 29
In honour of International Dance Day, Québec Danse invited audiences and artists to celebrate the incredible variety of dance forms and practices across the province in a wide array of classes, shows, rehearsals and exhibitions.
Posted April 30, 2014
News from the National Ballet of Canada
Paper Things, the Toronto gift and stationery store that has supported the National Ballet of Canada for more than fifty years will close its doors on June 30.
Posted April 29, 2014
Canadian Dancers on TV
This spring, past So You Think You Can Dance Canada winners Nicolas (Nico) Archambault and Jordan Clark return to television.
Posted April 26, 2014
The Kids Are All Right
The Show Choir Canada championships featured nearly thirty glee club teams from schools across North America over the April 12 - 13 weekend.
Posted April 21, 2014
A Culture Factory Spreads Dance
The Regroupement québecois de la danse has become a partner of La Fabrique culturelle, a new arts media platform that collects and features videos and photographs representing all the arts.
Posted April 16, 2014
PANAMANIA Announced
On April 1, programming for the arts and culture events surrounding the 2015 PanAm/ Parapan American Games in Toronto were announced at the El Catrin restaurant in the Distillery District.
Posted April 11, 2014
Training Scholarships
The School of Alberta Ballet announce a boys’ scholarship program, Winnipeg’s Rainbow Stage Music Theatre Conservatory announce free jazz classes for aspirants and professionals and others in the country making training available for emerging dance artists.
Posted April 11, 2014
Motion Bank: a Catalogue of Movements
Since its launch in 2010, Motion Bank has been capturing choreographic movements and transforming them into computer data made available online.
Posted April 8, 2014
Su-Feh Lee and Ziyian Kwan receive BC Dance Awards
Vancouver’s The Dance Centre has announced the recipients of two awards acknowledging British Columbia choreographers.
Posted April 2, 2014
Meet New NBoC ED Barry Hughson
In January, The National Ballet of Canada (NBoC) welcomed new Executive Director Barry Hughson.
Posted March 13, 2014
MamaDances Comes to Toronto
The hugely successfully Montréal parent and child dance program MamaDances is finally coming to Toronto.
Posted February 27, 2014
iLL Skill Squad Receives First André Gingras Award
On February 8 in The Hague, the Dutch dance collective iLL Skill Squad received the very first André Gingras Award, named after the late Canadian choreographer.
Posted February 25, 2014
