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Culture Days at the National Arts Centre this weekend
September 27, 2011
OTTAWA – Backstage tours, karaoke, dance workshops, classical and world-rock music, and an art exhibition about one of Canada’s most important playwrights highlight the 2011 edition of Culture Days at the National Arts Centre this weekend from September 30 to October 2. Culture Days is a free annual event designed to invite the public to celebrate and explore arts... Read more
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Culture Days at the National Arts Centre this weekend
September 27, 2011
OTTAWA – Backstage tours, karaoke, dance workshops, classical and world-rock music, and an art exhibition about one of Canada’s most important playwrights highlight the 2011 edition of Culture Days at the National Arts Centre this weekend from September 30 to October 2. Culture Days is a free annual event designed to invite the public to celebrate and explore arts... Read more
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Culture Days at the National Arts Centre this weekend
September 27, 2011
OTTAWA – Backstage tours, karaoke, dance workshops, classical and world-rock music, and an art exhibition about one of Canada’s most important playwrights highlight the 2011 edition of Culture Days at the National Arts Centre this weekend from September 30 to October 2. Culture Days is a free annual event designed to invite the public to celebrate and explore arts... Read more
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National Arts Centre launches inaugural season of its all-Canadian performance series NAC Presents In partnership with BMO Financial Group
September 23, 2011
OTTAWA, CANADA, September 22, 2011 – Canada’s National Arts Centre today launched NAC Presents, in partnership with BMO Financial Group. This new, all-Canadian performance series will showcase some of this country’s most exciting, vibrant and innovative artists, including Rufus Wainwright, Jean Leloup, Gordon Lightfoot, Dala, Sarah Slean, Dan Hill, Sam Roberts Band, The Sadies,... Read more
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National Arts Centre launches inaugural season of its all-Canadian performance series NAC Presents In partnership with BMO Financial Group
September 23, 2011
OTTAWA, CANADA, September 22, 2011 – Canada’s National Arts Centre today launched NAC Presents, in partnership with BMO Financial Group. This new, all-Canadian performance series will showcase some of this country’s most exciting, vibrant and innovative artists, including Rufus Wainwright, Jean Leloup, Gordon Lightfoot, Dala, Sarah Slean, Dan Hill, Sam Roberts Band, The Sadies,... Read more
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National Arts Centre launches inaugural season of its all-Canadian performance series NAC Presents In partnership with BMO Financial Group
September 23, 2011
OTTAWA, CANADA, September 22, 2011 – Canada’s National Arts Centre today launched NAC Presents, in partnership with BMO Financial Group. This new, all-Canadian performance series will showcase some of this country’s most exciting, vibrant and innovative artists, including Rufus Wainwright, Jean Leloup, Gordon Lightfoot, Dala, Sarah Slean, Dan Hill, Sam Roberts Band, The Sadies,... Read more
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NAC Dance opens the 2011-2012 season with Babel (words) by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet – the anticipated conclusion to the epic three-part projectOctober 5 and 6, 2011
September 21, 2011
The NAC Dance season opens with Babel (words), on October 5 and 6, 2011 in the NAC Theatre with the anticipated conclusion to an epic trilogy that began with Foi in 2003, followed by Myth in 2007. Babel (words) honours a decade of collaboration with co-choreographer Damien Jalet, while reuniting Cherkaoui with UK visual artist Antony Gormley. With a cast that is a veritable chorus of nations and... Read more
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CHANTE AVEC MOISeptember 27 – October 1, 2011, at 7:30pm
September 15, 2011
What if “Frère Jacques” were to become a weapon of mass destruction? Amusing as that may seem, remember that “canon” can also mean “a decree or law”... Music as imperative: that’s the concept Olivier Choinière explores in Chante avec moi, the opening production in the National Arts Centre French Theatre’s 2011–2012 season,... Read more
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Once upon a time, ten heroes embarked upon a new journey…NAC French Theatre is launching the second edition of its ARGONAUTS CLUB
September 14, 2011
It is crucial to allow yourself to hear the thoughts of others who share the same questions. To allow yourself to look into your relationship with theatre to drag a deep thought out of it, a precise and bright sensation, some poetry. Not liking theatre, but knowing why, without recrimination against it. In that sense, the Golden Fleece, here, obviously, is nothing else than yourself. You can say... Read more
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La La La Human Steps performs New Work by Edouard Lock at the NAC on May 18 and 19, 2011
May 10, 2011
La La La Human Steps performs New Work by Edouard Lock in the NAC’s Southam Hall on May 18 and 19, 2011. This NAC co-production is the final dance presentation of the 2010-2012 NAC Dance season and features international star Diana Vishneva of the Mariinsky Ballet. The bold kinetic style and physical complexity of Edouard Lock’s creations have made La La La Human Steps one of the most... Read more