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She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC) in 1972, "in recognition of her leadership and her service as teacher and administrator of the National Ballet School", and promoted to a Companion of the Order (CC) in 1985. [3] In 1988, the National Ballet School of Canada named its new performance space the Betty Oliphant Theatre.
Miranda Esmonde-White (born May 9, 1949) is a Canadian fitness trainer, former ballerina with the National Ballet of Canada, and author of books on aging, health and fitness. She created the dynamic stretching and strengthening workout, Essentrics , and the PBS fitness TV show, Classical Stretch , based on Essentrics .
The National Ballet of Canada was formed in 1951 by the English ballet dancer Celia Franca, who had previously been a dancer with ballet companies in the United Kingdom. Franca immigrated to Canada in 1951 and founded the National Ballet of Canada that same year, [2] also hiring the English ballet teacher Betty Oliphant to work with the company.
The Canada's National Ballet School was founded in 1959 by Celia Franca and Julia Bondy and was directed for many years by co-founder Betty Oliphant. [12] The primary goal of the school is to train dancers for the National Ballet of Canada and also for companies across Canada and around the world.
She and Betty Oliphant founded the National Ballet School of Canada in 1959 to provide trained dancers for the company. [11] In 1979 Franca joined Merrilee Hodgins and Joyce Shietze as a co-artistic director to The School of Dance in Ottawa, a non-profit organization designed to provide professional training for dance. [9]
The family moved from Ancaster to Erindale Woodlands, Toronto Township when Kain was in grade 6 (age 11, 1962) so she could begin training at the National Ballet School of Canada. [1] (The majority of Toronto Township, including Erindale Woodlands, is now Mississauga.) Upon graduating in 1969, she was invited to join the National Ballet of ...
He began dancing lessons in London, [3] Ontario, at the age of 11, and entered Canada's National Ballet School [4] at the age of 12, in the eighth grade. Upon graduating in 1975, he joined the corps de ballet of the National Ballet of Canada, [5] making his professional debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in Coppélia. [2]
Aaron S. Watkin (born 1969 or 1970 [1]) is a Canadian ballet company director and former dancer.He became the artistic director of the English National Ballet in 2023.. He began his dance career in 1988 at the National Ballet of Canada, and went on to perform at the English National Ballet, the Dutch National Ballet, the Frankfurt Ballet [] and the Spanish National Dance Company.