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The Story behind the Story: Robert Chafe’s Chance Encounter
February 13, 2017Attending pre-performance chats and donor previews are one of the many benefits donors receive when they support performance, creation and learning across Canada through the National Arts Centre Foundation. On January 26, National Arts Centre Foundation supporters attended an informative…
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Travel through Music
May 19, 2016Air Canada gathered 24 musicians from 8 partner symphony orchestras in Canada, including the NAC orchestra, to create a unique interactive experience. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to become the conductor of the first pan-Canadian interactive concert on May 25 and 26 at the…
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Countdown to the Rite of Spring-Part 5 of 5
May 29, 2013Le Massacre du printemps Newspapers called it ‘Le Massacre du printemps.’ Diaghilev’s satisfied comment was, ‘Exactly what I wanted.’ A Jealous Lover Diaghilev did not accompany the Ballets Russes when the company embarked on its South American tour in the fall of 1913, which was preceded…
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Countdown to the Rite of Spring-Part 4 of 5
May 22, 2013Aggressively Anti-Balletic Vaslav Nijinsky will live on as the first modernist choreographer and one of the greatest dancers of the twentieth century. In his twenties he made a series of ballets that, as Joan Acocella notes in The New Yorker: “…challenged academic dance as Picasso, around…
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Countdown to the Rite of Spring-Part 3 of 5
May 15, 2013The Premiere The premiere performance of The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps) took place on Thursday, May 29, 1913 at Paris’s newly-opened Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. The program that night also included Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose and Polovtsian Dances. A Modernist Affair…
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Countdown to The Rite of Spring Part 2 of 5
May 8, 2013The Igor Stravinsky Connection The virtually unknown Russian composer Igor Stravinsky was commissioned by Diaghilev to create the score for the full-length ballet The Firebird, choreographed by Fokine for the Ballets Russes’s 1910 Paris season. Stravinsky composed three further works for…
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The Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty
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Interview with choreographer Jean Grand-Maître
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NAC Dance lovers speak about the 13-14 season
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Extravagant! Extreme! Extraordinary! When it comes to Love Lies Bleeding, too much...
April 12, 2013By Gerald Morris Alberta Ballet has become known in recent years for creating 'songbook' contemporary ballets dedicated to the life and career of individual singer-songwriters: The Fiddle and The Drum (Joni Mitchell, 2007), Fumbling Towards Ecstacy (Sarah McLachlan, 2011), and…
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Get Your Elton On!
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It’s a world of dance in Ottawa!
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Fiery flamboyant fascinating Flamenco: María Pagés and her company perform Autorretrato
March 22, 2013Renowned worldwide for her unique approach to Flamenco – María Pagés was one of the first to view it as a constantly evolving art form – the famous dancer from Seville, Spain, will present Autorretrato, a flamboyant self-portrait created in New York at the instigation of Mikhaïl…
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Face2Face With Your Environment
February 5, 2013The Most Together We’ve Ever Been features a series of entrances and exits by dancers Ame Henderson and Matija Ferlin. Oftentimes the viewer is left to contemplate the relationship between themselves and their environment. Of all the objects that will be displayed in The Most Together We’ve…
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National Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet
February 1, 2013