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    We would like to recognize the Anishinabeg Algonquin Nation, on whose traditional unceded territory the National Arts Centre is located. We gratefully acknowledge them as the past, present and future stewards of this land.

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Stories featuring The National Ballet of Canada

  • Insight into Madness with the National Ballet of Canada’s Peter Ottmann

    January 31, 2018

    Attending intermission chats and open rehearsals are one of the many benefits donors receive when they support performance, creation and learning across Canada through the National Arts Centre Foundation. John Neumeier’s masterpiece Nijiinsky explores the complex, brilliant mind of the…

  • ENCOUNT3RS

    September 7, 2017

    Collaborative project combines disciplines and fosters brilliant new Canadian creation As soon as their one-act ballet ended, composer Kevin Lau and choreographer Guillaume Côté sprang from their seats to take their bows on stage.  So intent were they on getting there quickly they didn’t…

  • Donor pre-rehearsal chats: Alice in Wonderland

    June 10, 2015

    Attending pre-rehearsal chats and open rehearsals are one of the many benefits donors receive when they support performance, creation and learning through the National Arts Centre Foundation. In the spring, ballet master Lindsay Fisher gave an informative talk to NAC Foundation donors…

  • The ultimate gift: A dance to honour prima ballerina Anik Bissonnette

    November 19, 2014

    There was a magical moment at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Gala last May and it began with a phone call to Guillaume Côté, principal dancer and choreographic associate with the National Ballet of Canada. “I called Guillaume in January and asked him if he would do a tribute…

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