News Releases
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The National Arts Centre announces Northern Scene: 50 events, 250 artists, 10 days
November 2, 2012
OTTAWA–The National Arts Centre (NAC) is delighted to announce the first programming details of Northern Scene, the sixth in a series of national Scene festivals that showcases the finest established and emerging artists in the country. Northern Scene will be the largest gathering of artists from Canada’s North ever held outside the region. The festival will... Read more
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Transforming Lives through Music: National Arts Centre Orchestra visits Whitehorse Nov. 1-3 as part of its Northern Canada Tour Tour includes more than 15 music education activities in the community.
November 1, 2012
OTTAWA—Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra led by Norwegian Guest Conductor Arild Remmereit will perform two concerts in Whitehorse featuring superstar Canadian violinist James Ehnes. During the tour musicians from the NAC will engage in music education activities with the community as part of the Orchestra’s Northern Canada Tour (October 26 to November 4). GE Canada is the... Read more
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The National Arts Centre English Theatre presents thirsty by Dionne Brand adapted from her book of poetry, thirsty Directed by Peter Hinton WORLD PREMIERE November 5 - 17, 2012 NAC Studio
October 30, 2012
Featuring the NAC English Theatre Company Carol Cece Anderson, Audrey Dwyer, Andrew Moodie, and Jackie Richardson. Ottawa, Ontario – In 1978, Alan, a Jamaican man, is killed in his Toronto home by police. For the women in his life – his widow, daughter, and mother – the memory of the event still reverberates, fresh and raw. Dionne Brand, winner of the 2011 Griffin... Read more
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NAC Dance presents the powerful, heart pounding dance/rock fusion Political Mother by choreographer/composer Hofesh Shechter on November 9-10
October 29, 2012
Described as “a monumental piece possessing the atmosphere of a heart-pounding rock show,” internationally acclaimed Hofesh Shechter Company presents its first full-length work, Political Mother, at the NAC Theatre on Friday November 9 and Saturday November 10, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. Political Mother features eleven highly athletic dancers and a live band of seven musicians onstage. A... Read more
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The National Arts Centre celebrates the Year of the North Orchestra tour this fall, major Northern Festival spring 2013
October 23, 2012
OTTAWA—Canada’s National Arts Centre (NAC) is celebrating the Year of the North with two major artistic projects: the Northern Canada Tour of the NAC Orchestra in the Fall of 2012, and the Northern Scene in the Spring of 2013, when the NAC will invite Northern artists back to Ottawa for a major festival featuring 250 of the best established and emerging artists. From October 26 to... Read more
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Call for nominations for the National Arts Centre Award for Distinguished Contribution to Touring
October 19, 2012
Ottawa (Canada) —The National Arts Centre and the Canadian Arts Presenting Association (CAPACOA) are once again extending a call for nominations for the National Arts Centre Award for Distinguished Contribution to Touring. The deadline for nominations is Friday, November 16, 2012. The National Arts Centre award will be presented at a special dinner on Saturday, January 26, during... Read more
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Violin Virtuoso James Ehnes gives a dazzling start to NAC Orchestra's Northern Canada Tour
October 17, 2012
The third Ovation Series concert of the NAC Orchestra’s 2012-2013 season -- conducted by Arild Remmereit -- features extraordinary Manitoba-born violin virtuoso James Ehnes. Mr Ehnes joins the NAC Orchestra to dazzle audiences with two of Saint-Saëns’s Spanish-inspired concertos – both full of melodic brilliance and technical fireworks. The concert also features music by... Read more
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The NAC French Theatre launches two new clubs: Les Y and Les Affamés!
October 16, 2012
Les Y Eager to introduce a group of ten neophytes to the many facets of the art of theatre, this club is for generation Y drama novices (aged 18 to 34) keen to discover more about theatre. This incisive initiatory voyage, whereby participants are able to attend free of charge three key performances during the 2012-2013 Théâtre français season, combines... Read more
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National Arts Centre Electrifies Dance Stage with Brazil's Grupo Corpo Friday and Saturday, October 26-27in Southam Hall at 8 pm
October 15, 2012
Back by popular demand, contemporary Brazilian tour de force Grupo Corpo returns with an evening of National Arts Centre premieres. Infused with classical training, modern dance, and sensual Brazilian street dance, the unmistakably loose-limbed and erotically expressive style of Grupo Corpo will be on full display in Ímã and Sem Mim, in Southam Hall on Friday October 26,... Read more
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Conductor Bernard Labadie, Quebec City’s Les Violons du Roy, and internationally renowned flutist Emmanuel Pahud inaugurate the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s 2012-2013 Great Performers Series with a program of Baroque showpieces on October 21
October 15, 2012
The first Great Performers concert of the NAC Orchestra 2012-2013 season -- conducted by Bernard Labadie -- features internationally acclaimed Les Violons du Roy performing music by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Franz Benda, Johann Joachim Quantz, and the music-loving Frederick the Great, who was a King in Prussia (1740–1772) and a King of Prussia (1772–1786) from the Hohenzollern dynasty.... Read more