As Cinderella, Genevieve Penn Nabity has grace and technique to spare, writes Michael Crabb. Following leads in “Swan Lake” and “The Nutcracker” she is no longer a star in the making…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:58PMDavid Dawson and Rena Butler are new to National Ballet audiences.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:22PM‘It was always our intention to create a piece that would help wake people up to the epidemic that is intimate partner and gender-based violence ... the advocacy is extremely important to …
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:32AM“Survivor” was made in 1986 response to Nelson Mandela’s imprisonment, but it’s a “universal statement about injustice.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:51PM‘Turn the dial to the maximum 15 revolutions per minute and it’s all they can do to stop getting flung off’
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AM‘A global event like this, dedicated to Black artists offers encouragement. Just fight hard and put your work out there.’
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMThe dance work, a collaboration with Canadian Stage, refers to the sea-snail shells that played a guiding role in the great migration over many centuries of Indigenous peoples.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMTchaikovsky’s classic ballet is back with many changes — all of them good.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:52PMCanadian Contemporary Dance Theatre’s annual WinterSong performance features the lore and traditions around the winter solstice.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMWayne McGregor’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s postapocalyptic “MaddAddam Trilogy” is at times overwhelming but also an undeniably thrilling experience.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:45PMMoraes’ company celebrates its 25th anniversary with a show on the Harbourfront stage where his Toronto dance career began.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMThree works — ‘Crepuscular,’ ‘The Collective Agreement,’ and ‘Concerto,’ achieve varying levels of success
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:49AMHusband-and-wife co-founders Allen and Karen Kaeja explore the concepts of touch and of identity and memory in double bill.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMNational Ballet of Canada artistic director Hope Muir brings King’s “The Collective Agreement” to the stage and revives a long neglected Kenneth MacMillan work.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMAfter a new version of the popular “Older & Reckless,” Moore is ceding MOonhORsE Dance to other, unidentified hands and moving west to be with her children and grandchildren.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMShechter has paired the violent “Clowns” with the gentler “The Fix” on a world tour that stops at Toronto’s Harbourfront.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:06PMBausch would almost certainly have been delighted by what the foundation dedicated to preserving her artistic legacy, in partnership with Senegal’s internationally renowned African contemp…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMThere’s so much of water, not just during the title song — cue iconic umbrella and lamppost — but also in the grand finale that patrons in the front rows are likely to get wet.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:07PMIndigenous Liberation, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks and the National Ballet all part of celebration continuing to Oct. 8.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:00PMThe dance-drama hybrid at the Theatre Centre, the final work of Peggy Baker Dance Projects, honours the avant-garde performances at 15 Dance Lab.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMThe cast of 22 women represents more 30 forms of dance, including Bharatanatyam, jazz, hip hop, tap, modern and classical ballet.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMThis is the second year in a row that the National Ballet has partnered with Harbourfront Centre to produce “Sharing the Stage” at the canopied, waterside 1,100-seat Concert Stage.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMThe festival unfolds with open-to-all dance workshops and other features from August 19 to 28, including two evenings of performances at Daniels Spectrum in Regent Park
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMGo for a whimsical walk, as an emcee and performers delight and enchant with an event that first ran in 1993.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AM“Anthropic Traces” is an unclassifiable synthesis of circus arts, dance, music, mask, multimedia and theatre that reflects on the continuing impact of humanity on our fragile planet.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:11PMAt a cost of a million dollars, “Anne of Green Gables — The Ballet” is the company’s most expensive and ambitious production to date.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:09PMAlan Lucien Øyen’s “Story, story, die” is “basically about our desire to be recognized” and the lies we tell to present a lovable image.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:06PM“Let’s say it’s an adult fairy tale,” says the dancer and choreographer of his multimedia work, which draws inspiration from cryptozoology and “The Little Mermaid.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:30PM“The challenge is not to make this character a villain,” says Piazzola, who will mark his first 200 performances with the Canadian Opera Company May 3.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:27PMThe National Ballet of Canada needs an experienced man to take his place. Artistic director Hope Muir says she has a plan.
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