Tuesday, March 6, 2018
How the National Ballet of Canada’s principal dancer brings unprocessed feeling to the stage
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:33PMFriday, March 2, 2018
It is a a strange, quiet, disconcerting and often mesmerizing performance about the end of the world and how we might deal with it.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:14PMThursday, February 22, 2018
Excellent performances make the production at Queen Elizabeth theatre in Vancouver both powerful and laconic
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 09:29PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Centrepiece ballet, Anna Karenina, features literature’s most canonical female victim. Maybe audiences are ready for a differetn type of heroine
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:00AMWednesday, February 7, 2018
The former head of Factory Theatre and the Shaw Festival is carving out a role for herself as a mentor and advocate for women in theatre
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:31PMFriday, January 26, 2018
The idea of ghosts and disappearances is at the heart of Brodsky/Baryshnikov, an understated one-man show starring famed ballet luminary Mikhail Baryshnikov, now 70
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:48PMTuesday, January 23, 2018
One of the world’s all-time great ballet dancers returned to Toronto this week to perform his solo show Brodsky/Baryshnikov
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:08PMFriday, January 19, 2018
The new version of the National Ballet’s choreographic workshop gives company dancers the opportunity to make new work on their colleagues
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:45PMTuesday, November 28, 2017
The conversation about misogyny has moved forward. So why do the performing arts insist on bringing us back to square one?
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:31PMFriday, November 24, 2017
Layered, intelligent and emotionally powerful, Nijinsky is just as powerful on second viewing
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:04PMFriday, November 17, 2017
There’s brilliance to be found in The 7 Fingers’ Triptyque, but it’s marred by moments both ugly and uninspired
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:10PMThursday, November 9, 2017
Principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada is just one of many claims to fame for the Winter's Tale star
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:01PMMonday, November 6, 2017
The riveting overlap between the performing body and real body intrigues and excites, but these experiential moments are too few
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:52PMFriday, October 20, 2017
The 19-year-old ballet dancer was recruited to choreograph a performance for the R&B duo at the 3 Days in Toronto festival
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:32PMWednesday, October 11, 2017
Actress Ellie Moon’s Asking For It, a play inspired by the Jian Ghomeshi trial, offers insight into why women often stay silent in the wake of sexual violence
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:51PMThursday, October 5, 2017
The Toronto festival wasn’t at its strongest, but still delivered energy to an excited crowd
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:24PMMonday, September 25, 2017
Tanztheater Wuppertal, Pina Bausch’s famous and much celebrated dance troupe, will perform The Rite of Spring and Café Muller
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:50PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
The production, premiering at Luminato this week, is a representation of how the past disrupts the present
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:24PMFriday, June 9, 2017
Michel's work is heavily autobiographical – the title refers to a towel she would put on her head as a child to become 'blond'
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:12PMFriday, June 2, 2017
A popular misconception finds that dancers, like athletes, peak in their 20s. But as the National Ballet of Canada’s most senior ballerinas prove, Martha Schabas writes, there are benefits…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:22PMFriday, April 21, 2017
ENCOUNT3RS features newly commissioned ballets by the National Ballet of Canada, Ballet BC and Alberta Ballet
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:06PMThursday, April 20, 2017
Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard crafts a dance/theatre piece based on Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:26PMTuesday, April 18, 2017
ENCOUNT3RS unites three prominent ballet companies in honour of the country’s sesquicentennial
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:33PMWednesday, April 12, 2017
Recurring motif is one of stunted communication, and some of the best dancing comes from the tension between the will and inability to express
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:21PMThursday, March 30, 2017
The two Toronto-based choreographers’ works baseline/multiform are the latest iteration of Compagnie Coleman Lemieux’s Bright Nights series
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:34PMFriday, March 17, 2017
B.C.-born choreographer’s first work for Royal Ballet is a clear and purposeful look at an ongoing humanitarian crisis
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:56PMB.C.-born choreographer’s first work for Royal Ballet is a clear and purposeful look at an ongoing humanitarian crisis
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:56PMThursday, March 9, 2017
British choreographer Will Tuckett’s interest in the classic tale dates back well before our latest anxiety over the elusiveness of truth
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:55AMFriday, March 3, 2017
The New York performing arts company has been controversial since its inception. But in fact, politics weigh their show down
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:15PMWhat's ahead in theatre, dance and music at the National Arts Centre for Canada's sesquicentennial
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:59PMWednesday, February 15, 2017
NBOC announces next year’s lineup plus appointment of newly created associate artistic director position
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:27PM 
