Dancers auditioned at the Bentway Studio for a Toronto version of 'Bodies in Urban Spaces,' a site-specific street performance in which locally recruited casts in colourful, gender-blurring …
Pianist Tao and dancer Teicher encountered each other as teenagers at an arts competition where Tao composed a classical arrangement of Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair." "More Forever" is Tao's…
Filming the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble in India helped Dasgupta handle the unexpected death of his father, but soaring COVID-19 infections kept him from flying to London to shoot the November…
Instead of a five-days festival of live performances in Toronto, this year's event will not officially end until Oct. 29, with livestream offerings available until Nov. 5. And the artistic s…
Co-director Yvonne Ng couldn't take the gamble of indoor performances for the 2021 fest so it's a hybrid of live outdoor shows and virtual presentations.
Mixed bill of four works from new and existing repertoire made for an emotion-charged event on the Harbourfront stage
First in-person shows since March, 2020 will sample classic and contemporary ballet, take place on open air concert stage with patio-style tables
The 50-minute solo performance of "Maggie & Me" is one she hopes will lead towards understanding and reconciliation
Toronto-born Muir got her start as a professional dancer at English National Ballet and has been artistic director of Charlotte Ballet since 2017.
Nobody has been groomed for the job, but principal dancer Guillaume Côté would be an attractive insider choice. For outside candidates, Tamara Rojo would be well suited if she could be w…
To mark Kain's official departure June 30 as the National Ballet of Canada's artistic director the Star invited a selection of friends and colleagues to send their congratulations.
Kain announces the 2021-22 National Ballet of Canada season in one of her last official acts as artistic director. She'll step down at the end of June.
'Toronto is one of the world's most culturally diverse cities, but we haven't had the equity,' Baker tells Michael Crabb. She will wind up Peggy Baker Dance Projects by June 2023 to free up …
'Dreamers' is the latest addition to the National Ballet of Canada's free online programming. The company has also commissioned new works from Jennifer Archibald, Vanesa Garcia-Ribala Montoy…
The work that Pite made for Paris Opera Ballet has its Canadian digital premiere on Feb. 17 through new dance initiative Digidance.
When this version was first seen in theatres in 2008, the Toronto cinema audience applauded virtuoso dances much as they might have in the Four Seasons Centre. The lead performances by Sonia…
Beatty's dance school has evolved to become one of Canada's leading; her teaching has "impacted on thousands." She has died age 84
With COVID-19 scuppering shows, three Canadian dance companies have come up with innovative ways to do in person and livestream performances
Accustomed to large spaces, busy schedules and comradeship, National Ballet performers are only now getting some of their old routine back. They explain how they've coped
'We must find ways to allow them to dance,' says Karen Kain in announcing 'Expansive Dances' by Robert Binet, Alysa Pires and Guillaume Côté, and the 'Spotlight Series' by Jera Wolfe, Ke…
With major premieres like a new 'Swan Lake' and 'MaddAddam' postponed, and the search for a successor slowed, the prima ballerina turned artistic director will stay as long as the company ne…
With theatres closed for the foreseeable future due to COVID-19, the web offers a cornucopia of compelling performances, from classics like "Swan Lake" and "Coppélia" to arts streaming site…
This spectacular and compelling dance-drama by Alexei Ratmansky for the National Ballet of Canada has a real-life urgency that emphasizes the story's timeless relevance, writes Michael Crabb.
Pite's new work brings out the best in the National Ballet of Canada's dancers while Greta Hodgkinson brings tragic dignity to 'Marguerite and Armand' as a dying courtesan.
Farewell seasons hardly get better than the one Greta Hodgkinson has had. She ends her career as a National Ballet principal dancer with the title role in Frederick Ashton's 'Marguerite and …