The 13th International Competition for The Erik Bruhn Prize will be Saturday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto. The companies participating in this year’s competition are American Ballet Theatre (ABT), The Hamburg Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet and The National Ballet of Canada.
The
Canada’s Ballet Jörgen has revived its original full-length ballet Anastasia for a special 30th Anniversary National Tour. Choreographed by Artistic Director and CEO Bengt
Jörgen, Anastasia
originally premiered on October 23, 2007 and is being restaged to commemorate the
100th
anniversary
of Anastasia’s
The National Ballet of Canada’s Artistic Director Karen Kain recently announced Dance Mosaic: Canada 150. To celebrate Toronto’s vibrant and diverse dance community, several organizations have been invited to attend a special, free performance of The Nutcracker on Friday, December 8 in honour of Canada’s 150th anniversary.
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The Dancer, a French feature film by Stéphanie Di Giusto, will be released in the U.S. and Canada in select theaters beginning December 1, 2017. Inspired by the lives of dance legends Loïe Fuller and Isadora Duncan, the film captures two seminal figures in the history of modern dance and theatrical performance.
The film stars French
Ballet Kelowna in the south of Canada’s British Columbia is once again offering a preview of the season’s dancers and upcoming performances. It will present its 4th Annual
Launch
event on Thursday, October 5 from 7–8 p.m.
Hosted by Artistic Director and CEO Simone Orlando, this event is open to the public
The 2017–18 Season marks Danse Danse’s 20th Anniversary—20 years of discoveries, enjoyment and continuous evolution. This year’s program features 15 shows and 14 companies, including six from Quebec, one from Norway, one from Finland, and special guests from New York, Vancouver, Barcelona, London and Taiwan, presented at Place des
Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, one of Canada’s leading performing arts companies based in Toronto, will soon host Living Ritual, an international Indigenous performing arts festival. The special event will take place in Tkaronto (Toronto) at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre from July 25-27.
The festival will create space
The Disney Channel recently began production on a new TV movie musical named Zombies. Featuring choreography by Christopher Scott, it will follow the story of teen zombies from “Zombietown” who join human classmates at Seabrook High School.
The film, which is being shot in Toronto, sees Canadian dancer Miles Faber join the cast.
Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, Russia is set to launch a North American Tour on May 11-13 in Toronto, ON, Canada. From here to Northrop Memorial Auditorium in Minneapolis on May 17 to Chicago’s historic Auditorium Theatre on May 19-21, the company will present Boris Eifman’s Red Giselle, which the San Francisco Chronicle previously called
Just a few days after Gauthier Dance in Germany celebrates its first decade with the anniversary production BIG FAT TEN, the company will leave to tour North America. The tour starts in the Canadian capital Ottawa before taking to New York City. The company hopes to conquer the Big Apple with seven shows of Marco Goecke's award-winning NIJINSKI at The Joyce
For the 2017-18 Season, Ballet BC is looking for full-time artists and apprentices, as well as young dancers to participate in the company’s Summer Dance Intensive. To fill these spots, the 30-year-old ballet company based in Vancouver, Canada, will hold auditions in New York City and Montréal, QC.
The New York City auditions are
Kaha:wi Dance Theatre (KDT), one of Canada’s leading contemporary dance companies, led by multi award-winning Artistic Director Santee Smith, presents a bold, timely, sonically and visually arresting interdisciplinary performance entitled Re-Quickening for its 2016 dance season on April 28-May 1.
Premiering as part of Harbourfront
