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
Body Wrappers/Angelo Luzio recently announced that it would fund
a Canadian study on dance and its effects on mental health.
The groundbreaking study includes the
National Centre for Dance Therapy in partnership with Les Grand Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, McGill University and York University of Canada.
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The National Ballet of Canada’s Artistic Director Karen Kain recently announced the company’s 2016-17 Season, which celebrates its 65th anniversary.
Programming includes: the full-length world premiere of Pinocchio by British choreographer Will Tuckett; the Canadian premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire choreographed by John Neumeier;
Canada’s Ballet Kelowna celebrates the New Year with the mixed repertory program Boundless, coming to the Kelowna Community Theatre on February 5 and 6, to the Merritt Civic Centre on February 9, and to the Summerland Centre Stage Theatre on March 6. Showcasing the remarkable artistry and vision of four distinct choreographers, including former
Calling all Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) students in Canada! In 2016, the RAD Dance Challenge is coming to Toronto’s Betty Oliphant Theatre in early April and Vancouver’s Scotiabank Dance Centre in late May. A two-day competition for young classical ballet dancers age 18 and under, the event culminates in a showcase of solo performances.
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The Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur (FASS) returns July 29-August 8 under the helm of Guillaume Côté for the first time. Côté, one of the leading figures of the dance world, assumed the role of festival artistic director earlier this year, having previously shared programming duties with outgoing director Anik Bissonnette.<br
Canadian contemporary dance powerhouse Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (BJM) will be heading to the Mediterranean for two weeks this month. Beginning with two performances at the Teatro Romano in Verona, Italy, the dancers will then present shows in Montauban, France before moving on to Spain for three evenings at the Veranos de la Villa in Madrid. The
Canadian dance company Ballet Kelowna will close its 2014-15 Season with two world premieres and one company premiere from some of the country’s leading contemporary ballet choreographers—James Kudelka, Shawn Hounsell and Ballet Kelowna’s own Artistic Director and CEO Simone Orlando—in Forward: A Mixed Repertory Programme at the
After a highly successful run of Swan Lake, Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB) will continue its 75th Anniversary season with The Faerie Queen – A Ballet Based On A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the seminal work of Barbados-born, Canadian choreographer John Alleyne. Alleyne’s contemporary ballet based on William Shakespeare’s
From January 30–February 1, Houston Ballet will present Alberta Ballet as part of the Cullen Series. One of the missions of the Cullen Series is to introduce the city to exciting contemporary dance makers. Under the artistic direction of Jean Grand-Maître, Alberta Ballet will perform Love Lies Bleeding, a celebration of the music of rock legend
Vancouver-based Ballet BC has established a reputation as an ascending force in contemporary ballet on the international scene ever since the dancer and choreographer Emily Molnar was named artistic director of the company. This Canadian company will offer Montreal audiences three hidden treasures from Europe in its upcoming triple bill.
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This weekend, Houston Ballet will tour to Detroit, Michigan for the first
time to perform at the Detroit Opera House on Saturday and Sunday (November 1 and 2) in Ai-Gul Gaisina’s staging of Giselle.
This famous ballet from the Romantic era tells the story of a beautiful peasant girl who is deceived by the duplicitous Count
