Friday, March 3, 2017
What's ahead in theatre, dance and music at the National Arts Centre for Canada's sesquicentennial
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:59PMWednesday, February 15, 2017
NBOC announces next year’s lineup plus appointment of newly created associate artistic director position
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:27PMThursday, January 19, 2017
Written by late playwright Linda Griffiths, Alien Creature quietly condemns the way free markets push artists to the socio-economic fringe
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:06PMFriday, January 13, 2017
Arun Lakra’s play, which focuses on themes that have been done to death, is ultimately too short on character
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:47PMFriday, January 6, 2017
Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin is the artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, which is about to embark on a four-city Canadian tour
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:53PMMonday, December 19, 2016
Works new and old, both classical and contemporary, graced Toronto this year and made an impression in more ways than one
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:52PMMonday, December 12, 2016
National Ballet of Canada’s 21st staging of the Christmas classic sets the story in czarist Russia, and digs up its folkloric undertones
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:06PMMonday, November 14, 2016
Cinderella’s integrated choreography-comedy gets tiresome quickly
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:58PMFriday, November 11, 2016
Ballet has long been a vital art form that moves the cultural conversation forward. As the National Ballet of Canada launches its 65th season, Martha Schabas asks how the company can maintai…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:39PMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Toronto Dance Theatre’s Animated has four pieces from different periods of Christopher House’s career
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:22PMFriday, October 28, 2016
The visionary choreographer and dancer at the helm of Ballet BC has recently been appointed to the rank of Member of the Order of Canada
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:41AMTuesday, October 11, 2016
Latin adaptations of Western classics, including the Bard’s, reflect a sense of community – and the need to speak out
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:43PMTuesday, October 4, 2016
An ambitious Toronto festival, featuring the best and brightest in the world, looks to cultivate a new audience
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:58AMMonday, September 5, 2016
Moral blind spots are a primary focus of the new play, provoking uncomfortable questions about the realm of sex
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:15PMFriday, August 26, 2016
Ten apprentices will join the National Ballet of Canada this fall at the start of what they hope will be long and rewarding careers
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:07PMAt just 25, choreographer Robert Binet dares to dream with his new blend of modern dance and classical technique
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:36PMFriday, July 29, 2016
Despite its low profile, Dance Collection Danse has an amazing story to tell
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:09PMHarrison James is young, but his verve has been rewarded with a rapid rise within the National Ballet
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:29PMFriday, June 17, 2016
Giselle often feels like two different productions back to back, and it’s the ravishing ghost of the titular character that makes Act 2 so pure and piercing
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:23AMFriday, June 3, 2016
The adaptation of the classic French novella is the National Ballet’s first full-length commission in more than a decade
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:29PMFriday, May 27, 2016
Marienbad was intriguing from the outset on account of the collaboration between a renowned veteran choreographer and a young, ubiquitous Toronto playwright
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:12PMMonday, May 9, 2016
Is Ballet BC’s all-female program of choreographers the exception to the rule? Few of them seem to be interested in discussing the gender politics
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:10PMFriday, April 22, 2016
By assembling a team of internationally renowned indigenous women artists, she’s put together an interdisciplinary show called Re-Quickening, which opens at Toronto’s Fleck Dance Theatre…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:06PMSunday, April 17, 2016
National Ballet of Canada principal dancer triumphed in Russia performing as Albrecht in Giselle
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 09:06PMFriday, April 15, 2016
One of the most exciting aspects of Singular Bodies, the Toronto Dance Theatre’s current show – a collaboration between 10 dancers and 11 local visual artists – is its steadfast minima…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:25PMMonday, April 11, 2016
In the Canadian Opera Company’s upcoming production in Toronto, the title role will be played by two rising international stars with quite diverging takes on the role
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:23PMFriday, March 25, 2016
The play, by the young, critically lauded British playwright, is about the famous Tank Man photo from the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:17PMThursday, March 10, 2016
The National Ballet’s Mixed Spring Program features two Balanchine ballets, Rubies and The Four Temperaments, alongside Ekman’s Cacti
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:02PMThursday, March 3, 2016
Canadian dancer Rachael McLaren she faced repeated rejections from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. She moved to New York and was invited to join the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:10PMIt has a hauntingly timeless quality – the story tragic, ineluctable, and then so excruciatingly familiar
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:47PMThursday, February 18, 2016
Using formations that shift between solos, duets and unified ensemble work, the piece has a delightfully charming messiness
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:09PM 
