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The National Ballet of Canada is a Canadian ballet company that was founded in 1951 in Toronto, Ontario, with Celia Franca, the first artistic director. A company of 70 dancers with its own orchestra, the National Ballet has been led since 2022 by artistic director Hope Muir. Renowned for its diverse repertoire, the company performs traditional ...
Veronica Tennant, CC FRSC (born January 15, 1946) is a Canadian producer, director, and filmmaker and a former principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada. [1] She was born in London, England and moved to Canada with her parents and sister in 1955. Dancing from the age of four, by the age of 18, she became the youngest person ever to ...
For 2015, the contestants were the 1993 film version of the New York City Ballet's Nutcracker, the Dutch National Ballet's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, Das Wiener Staatsballett's 2014 Nutcracker and the Bonn Ballet's Nutcracker. The winner, shown on December 21, was The Dutch National Ballet’s The Nutcracker And The Mouse King.
The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик [a], romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ⓘ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll.
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.
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.
Karen Alexandria Kain CC OOnt (born March 28, 1951) is a Canadian former ballet dancer and was the Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada from 2005 to 2021. Early training and childhood [ edit ]
It is the home of the Canadian Opera Company (COC) and the National Ballet of Canada. [1] The building's modernist design by was created by Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects, headed by Jack Diamond. It was completed in 2006, and the interior design includes an unusual glass staircase. [2]