News Releases
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National Arts Centre establishes new broadband connection with Iqaluit high school
April 18, 2012
OTTAWA—The National Arts Centre is delighted to announce that it has established a real-time, high-quality broadband videoconference link that will connect students at Inuksuk High School in Iqaluit to the NAC’s Hexagon Studio. The new link will allow the NAC to continue its relationship with Inuksuk High School students that began earlier this year as part of the NAC’s Music... Read more
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“theatre exists in that vacant space where,hand outstretched, movement will emerge and speechwill appear, vibrating in the air and the light,resonating” Brigitte Haentjens
April 17, 2012
Louis Aragon, Pascal Brullemans, Italo Calvino, Olivier Choinière, Daniel Danis, Patrice Desbiens, Marguerite Duras, Tomson Highway, Alfred Jarry, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Agota Kristof, Alexis Martin, Émile Nelligan, Lars Norén, David Paquet, Georges Perec, Joël Pommerat, Raymond Queneau, Michel Tremblay, Marie Uguay, Anne-Marie White. Their words, and those of many... 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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Sally Benson
April 13, 2012
Sally Benson, a beloved member of the NAC Orchestra, left us far too soon earlier today. After recently being diagnosed with a brain tumour, she passed away this afternoon at the Elisabeth Bruyère Continuing Care Hospital. Sally joined the Orchestra in 1970, a year after the National Arts Centre opened to the public. Always a popular member of the Orchestra, Sally has been surrounded by... Read more
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S’EMBRASENT (ages 14+)April 25 to 28, 2012
April 12, 2012
Jonathan kisses Latifa in the schoolyard. It is love at first sight and a shock wave for all who witness it – the girls and boys, the teachers and the principal – a passion that, like an eclipse observed with the naked eye, leaves them stunned, dazzled by the impact. Combining elements of the video clip and the oratorio, this incandescent presentation boldly blends poetry, dance and... Read more
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Soprano Joyce El-Khoury and members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra are featured in the NAC’s ‘Music for a Sunday Afternoon’ concert on April 29 at the National Gallery of Canada
April 12, 2012
The fourth ‘Music for a Sunday Afternoon’ concert of the National Arts Centre’s 2011-2012 season features rising star soprano Joyce El-Khoury, pianist Jean Desmarais, as well as Jessica Linnebach (Associate Concertmaster of the NAC Orchestra), Noémie Racine-Gaudreault and Jeremy Mastrangelo (violin), Jethro Marks (viola), Leah Wyber (cello), and Emily Marks (flute). The... Read more
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Emily Saves the Orchestra -- the fourth and final TD Bank Group ‘Family Adventures with the National Arts Centre Orchestra’ concert of the 2011-2012 season – is on Saturday April 28
April 12, 2012
Emily Saves the Orchestra -- the fourth TD Bank Group ‘Family Adventures with the National Arts Centre Orchestra’ concerts – feature the National Arts Centre Orchestra conducted by Boris Brott, as well as guest artists Ottawa’s acclaimed Platypus Theatre, writer and actor Peter Duschenes, and actor Danielle Desormais. Emily Saves the Orchestra takes place on Saturday April... 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
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Sublime Mozart, the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s fourth Mark Motors Audi Signature Series concert of the 2011-2012 season, features conductor Pinchas Zukerman, host Eric Friesen, and pianist Garrick Ohlsson in a mostly-Mozart program on April 25-26
April 11, 2012
Sublime Mozart -- the fourth Mark Motors Audi Signature Series concert of the NAC’s 2011-2012 season – features Pinchas Zukerman on the conductor’s podium and international superstar Garrick Ohlsson as piano soloist. Writer/broadcaster Eric Friesen hosts the concert. Sublime Mozart is at 8 p.m. in Southam Hall on Wednesday April 25 and Thursday April 26, 2012. Praised for his... Read more
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Extended – One Additional Performance Sunday, April 15 at 2 p.m.WIT’S END III: LOVE LIFEWritten, directed and performed by Sandra ShamasTickets for Extension Go On Sale Wednesday at Noon!
April 10, 2012
Due to overwhelming demand, the NAC English Theatre has extended with one additional performance for Sandra Shamas’ WIT’S END III: LOVE LIFE, Sunday, April 15 at 2 pm. One of Canada’s most celebrated comic artists, Sandra Shamas came into her own as a performer, writer and producer in the mid 1980s with My Boyfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Laundry. Two... Read more