News Releases
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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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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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Political Pawn. Teenage Queen. Lover. Victim. Marie-Antoinette. National Arts Centre Inaugurates the 2012-2013 Ballet Season with the Canadian Premiere of Marie by Houston Ballet
October 3, 2012
OTTAWA, October 3, 2012 — Ottawa hosts the Canadian premiere of Artistic Director Stanton Welch's Marie. Thursday October 18, Friday October 19, and Saturday October 20, 2012 at 8 p.m. Southam Hall. All performances feature the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Internationally acclaimed Houston Ballet performs a three-act narrative ballet inspired by the life of the legendary French... Read more
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The National Arts Centre inaugurates the 2012-2013 Dance Season with the Canadian premiere of The Tempest Replica by international dance sensation Crystal Pite/Kidd Pivot
September 13, 2012
Crystal Pite’s much-acclaimed Vancouver-based company Kidd Pivot performs The Tempest Replica -- the Canadian premiere of a National Arts Centre co-production -- in the Theatre of the NAC on Thursday, September 27 and Friday, September 28, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. In her latest full-length work (80 minutes, no intermission) based on motifs from one of Shakespeare’s final plays, The... Read more
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THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ASKS IF YOU WERE ONE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS WHAT WOULD YOU BE?
June 15, 2012
Think you are a Dance person? Or maybe Music is more up your alley? Would you be surprised to know if you were a performing art, it would be Theatre? The National Arts Centre is giving you the chance to find out with an exciting contest in which you can discover what kind of performing art you would be, and win a NAC VIP Experience! Simply click on whatwouldIbe.ca, to find out what you would be... Read more
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The National Arts Centre hopes to minimize transportation and parking challenges for NAC patrons on Ottawa Race Weekend -- May 26-27, 2012
May 17, 2012
The National Arts Centre wishes to advise all patrons that they may face significant challenges getting to, and parking nearby, the NAC during Ottawa Race Weekend, May 26-27. Tens of thousands of people will converge on the downtown core during the weekend, some roads will be closed, and parking may be difficult to find. Because of road closures and the predicted high volume of both vehicular and... Read more
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Bolshoi Ballet performs their signature work Don Quixote at the NAC from May 23 to 26, 2012
May 10, 2012
Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet performs the spectacular, full-length classic Don Quixote, May 23 to 26, 2012 in the NAC’s Southam Hall, accompanied by the NAC Orchestra. Considered one of the world’s greatest ballet companies, the Bolshoi Ballet will dazzle at every opportunity, showcasing the company’s precious artistry, infectious energy, and masterful demonstrations of... Read more
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Dana Gingras and Animals of Distinction explore wild new terrain in Heart as Arena at the NAC May 10-12, 2012
May 4, 2012
Dana Gingras and her company Animals of Distinction present her most recent project Heart as Arena in the NAC Studio from May 10-12, 2012.Heart as Arena explores ideas of receptivity and transmission, and the secret language of electricity that animates heart, mind and muscle. An installation of nearly 50 radios dominates the inventive set, some hanging above the stage in a ring formation, or... Read more
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Cie Käfig/CCN Créteil et Val-de-Marne presents an explosive, athletic program of fusion hip-hop on April 19 & 20, 2012 at the NAC
April 13, 2012
France’s fusion hip-hop company Käfig presents a powerfully physical program on April 19 & 20, 2012 at 7:30 pm in the NAC Theatre. In the complementary pair of works Correria (running) and Agwa (water), internationally renowned choreographer Mourad Merzouki, Artistic Director of Le Centre Chorégraphique National Créteil et Val-de-Marne, combines hip-hop, capoeira,... Read more
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Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater at the NAC on April 17, 2012
April 11, 2012
Preeminent modern dance company Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the NAC’s Southam Hall, April 17, 2012 to present an evening of mixed repertoire, drawn from the company’s more than 50-year history. The occasion marks their first Ottawa appearance since the July 2011 appointment of Robert Battle as the company’s new Artistic Director. The program will feature two of... Read more