2013|14 season - The National Ballet of Canada

2013|14 season

“Company of the year. The National Ballet of Canada gets the
worldwide profile it deserves.”
The Globe and Mail, 2011
“Extraordinary skill, versatility and spirit.”
Los Angeles Times, 2012
“Stamina, guts and passion are what define this company
right now.”
National Post, 2013
“I hope for a return visit from this wonderful company in the
near, rather than distant, future.”
Dance Europe, 2013
I can’t think of a better time to join us as a
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The past season was an especially memorable and exciting one for
The National Ballet of Canada. For the first time in a great many years
we undertook a substantial international touring schedule and were
greeted with plaudits by critics and audiences alike. Our dancers were
clearly galvanized by the experience and their energy sent ripples
throughout the entire company. You can feel that there is a new vigour
and character to the National Ballet right now. It’s a freshness in our
approach and attitude that stems from the combination of our superb
classical command and our spirited embrace of the contemporary. We
are, as they say, on a roll. And that’s reflected in both our repertoire
and our performances.
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Karen Kain C.C., LL.D., D.Litt., O.Ont.
Karen Kain
Artistic Director
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“What makes Swan Lake such a favourite ballet is the sheer
beauty of the dancing”
Toronto Star
Presented by
Swan Lake
November 9—17, 2013
March 8—16, 2014 Perfect for March Break!
Swan
Lake
One of the central works of the classical ballet canon, and one of the most enduringly
resonant and deeply affecting of all works of theatrical art, Swan Lake has enthralled
audiences since its premiere in Moscow in 1877. Set to a timeless and famously
evocative score by Tchaikovsky, the ballet is marked by a thematic and stylistic dynamism
that embraces the fantastic and mythic while remaining rooted in the most universal of
human emotions.
Swan Lake retains the captivating, 19th-century fairy-tale quality of the ballet while
grounding the narrative in a richly suggestive earthiness that accentuates the tension
between the sensual and the ethereal, the natural and the supernatural. The new
emotional and thematic complexities that are revealed in James Kudelka’s re-telling of the
story are heightened and complemented by Santo Loquasto’s exquisite and vibrant sets
and costumes, both conveying the ballet’s tragic beauty and powerful effect with
consummate artistry.
Xiao Nan Yu, Patrick Lavoie and Guest Artist J Artists of the Ballet
Artists of the Ballet
Guillaume Côté and Heather Ogden
Choreography: James Kudelka, O.C.
Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Set and Costume Design: Santo Loquasto
Lighting Design: Robert Thomson
Swan Lake is made possible by generous
financial support from production underwriters
Sandra Pitblado & Jim Pitblado, C.M. and
Margaret Fleck & Jim Fleck, O.C.
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presents
Innovation
November 22—28, 2013
James Kudelka
The National Ballet of Canada’s Innovation series presents three cutting edge world
premieres by exceptional Canadian choreographers in one dazzlingly eclectic programme
of dance. This season the series features the outstanding and singular talents of Robert
Binet, José Navas and James Kudelka.
Toronto native and Canada's National Ballet School graduate Robert Binet is just
embarking on his career as a choreographer, but already the Choreographic Apprentice
with The Royal Ballet has created works for Wayne McGregor/Random Dance, the
National Ballet’s YOU Dance programme, the second company of The Hamburg Ballet,
Estonian Ballet and New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute.
Venezuelan-born and Montréal-based José Navas studied in Caracas and at the Merce
Cunningham Studio in New York City, before moving to Canada in 1991. He founded
Compagnie Flak in 1995 and has since choreographed over 30 ballets for both stage and
film, touring his works extensively.
James Kudelka is one of Canada’s best-known and most highly-regarded
choreographers, whose ballets range from new versions of the classical repertoire, such
as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Cinderella, to highly innovative shorter works. His
ballets have been staged the world over.
“Our second Innovation series brings together three really
brilliant and very different Canadian choreographers and
promises an extraordinary evening of new and cutting
edge dance.”
Karen Kain, Artistic Director
World Premiere by Robert Binet
Choreography: Robert Binet
Original Music: Owen Pallett
Set and Costume Design: Hyemi Shin
Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls
World Premiere by José Navas
Choreography: José Navas
Music: Benjamin Britten, Peter Grimes,
Op. 33 – Four Sea Interludes Op. 33a
Costume Design: Sonya Bayer
Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls
World Premiere by James Kudelka
Choreography: James Kudelka
Music: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi,
Stabat Mater
Costume Design: Jim Searle and
Chris Tyrell for Hoax Couture
Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls
Innovation is supported by The Producers’ Circle: John & Claudine Bailey, Susanne Boyce & Dr. Brendan Mullen,
Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance, Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan, Kevin & Roger Garland, Rosamond Ivey,
Hal Jackman Foundation, Anna McCowan-Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C., Judy Korthals, Mona & Harvey Levenstein,
The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, O.C., Julie Medland, Sandra Pitblado & Jim Pitblado, C.M., Sandra L. Simpson and
Noreen Taylor & David Staines, O.C.
José Navas
Robert Binet
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“A Month in the Country is a masterly haiku which
compresses all the emotion of a long, wordy play, into
40 minutes of glorious dance.”
The Daily Telegraph
A Month in
the Country
Watch her &
A Month in the Country
February 26—March 2, 2014
Edmonton-born Azure Barton’s delicately layered but vigorously imagined Watch her
dazzled audiences when it premiered with The National Ballet of Canada in 2009. Set to
Lera Auerbach's interpretation of Pergolesi’s famous Dialogues on Stabat Mater, the work
is a mesmerizing evocation of a spiritual state achieved through the physical vocabulary of
dance. The idea of being perceived and how that conditions and situates the human body
in both spatial and emotional terms, lends the work its powerful thematics as well as its
focused energy. Watch her is the work of a formidable dance artist at her most compelling.
A marvel of narrative compression and choreographic economy, Sir Frederick Ashton’s
affecting and engaging A Month in the Country is one of the great English choreographer’s
finest ballets. Created for The Royal Ballet in 1975, with Lynn Seymour and Anthony
Dowell in the principal roles, the adaptation of Turgenev’s story has attracted many of
ballet’s greatest dancers. In 1995, Anthony Dowell himself set the work on The National
Ballet of Canada, with Karen Kain and Robert Conn in the lead roles. It was the first time
the work had been performed by a company other than The Royal Ballet.
Jenna Savella and Jonathan Renna in Watch her
Sonia Rodriguez in Watch her
Karen Kain in A Month in the Country, 1995
Watch her
Choreography: Aszure Barton
Music: Lera Auerbach, Dialogues on
Stabat Mater (after G.B. Pergolesi)
Set and Costume Design: Yannik Larivée
Lighting Design: Christopher Dennis
Watch her is generously supported by
Walter Carsen, O.C.
A Month in the Country
Choreography: Sir Frederick Ashton
Music: Frédéric Chopin,
arranged by John Lanchbery
Staged by: Sir Anthony Dowell
Set and Costume Design: Julia Trevelyan Oman
Lighting Design: John B. Read
A Month in the Country has been totally underwritten
by Sandra Pitblado & Jim Pitblado, C.M.
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negin
Onegin
March 19—23, 2014
John Cranko was one of modern ballet’s greatest interpreters of literary works, and his
trademark skill with drama, character and the unfolding and shaping of narrative was never
more fully displayed than in his 1965 version of Alexander Pushkin’s classic verse novel
Eugene Onegin. Employing the arch-romantic sonorities of Tchaikovsky’s music, Cranko
breathes fresh and insightful life into the story of the jaded aristocrat Eugene Onegin, who
callously trifles with the affections of the trusting, innocent country girl, Tatiana, only to
have the tables turned years later when a very changed Tatiana rejects him.
This familiar but potent meditation on ill-starred love and tragic irony is given a bold
and fresh revision in Cranko’s ballet, especially in his approach to the character of Tatiana,
whose maturation from the shy, vulnerable girl of the first act to the poised, self-possessed
woman of the finale is a wonder of dramatic transformation.
The breathtaking sets and costumes by veteran stage designer Santo Loquasto
complete this heartrending portrait of human frailty and the often cruel vicissitudes of love.
“/5 Electrifying... an evening of ballet that was
nothing short of magical.”
Toronto Sun
Piotr Stanczyk
McGee Maddox and Heather Ogden
Choreography: John Cranko
based on the poem by Alexander Pushkin
Staged by: Reid Anderson
Copyright: Dieter Graefe
Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Arrangement and Orchestration: Kurt-Heinz Stolze
Set and Costume Design: Santo Loquasto
Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls
Onegin is generously supported by an anonymous
friend of The National Ballet of Canada.
Xiao Nan Yu and Guest Artist Ji í Jelinek
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“Impressively original... mysterious, innovative
and enthralling”
Channel Rivera, Cannes, France
presents
Spectre
de la Rose
Spectre de la Rose &
Opus 19/The Dreamer &
the second detail
May 28—June 1, 2014
Michel Fokine’s landmark 1911 ballet Le Spectre de la Rose has been lavishly re-imagined
by the exciting young Choreographer-in-Residence with Stuttgart Ballet, Marco Goecke.
While preserving the central dynamic between The Young Girl and The Spirit of the Rose,
Goecke has added both dancers and music to the ballet, creating a broader thematic and
choreographic context in which the work can unfold. Goecke’s fresh reading of this great
modern classic is a genuine revelation.
Jerome Robbins’ work traversed the spectrum of modern dance, from Broadway
shows to severe abstraction, but whether in narrative or non-narrative situations, his
ballets always take delight in the emotive and expressive possibilities of human movement.
His late work Opus 19/The Dreamer is the abstract Robbins and, set to Prokofiev’s Violin
Concerto No.1 in D Major, exemplifies beautifully the tensions in his work and personality
between the bold experimenter and the inconsolable romantic.
The arch antagonist of received ballet wisdom, William Forsythe’s choreographic
provocations have earned him as much notoriety as acclaim. Yet beneath the anarchic
comedy, the fiercely deconstructive and random-seeming surface of a work such as the
second detail there lurks an ungainly but defiant elegance, a vision of dance that forces us
to look anew at ballet’s meanings and potentialities.
Xiao Nan Yu and Guillaume Côté in Opus 19/The Dreamer
Sonia Rodriguez in the second detail
Nathalie Nordquist of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in Spectre de la Rose
Spectre de la Rose
Choreography: Marco Goecke
Staged by: Giovanni di Palma
Music: Carl Maria von Weber
Costume Design: Michaela Springer
Lighting Design: Udo Haberland
Spectre de la Rose is supported by
The Producers’ Circle.
Opus 19/The Dreamer
Choreography: Jerome Robbins
Staged by: Jean-Pierre Frohlich
Music: Sergei Prokofiev,
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major
Costume Design: Ben Benson
Lighting Design: Jennifer Tipton
Opus 19/The Dreamer is made possible
by a generous contribution from David &
Torunn Banks.
the second detail
Choreography: William Forsythe
Staged by: Jill Johnson
Music: Thom Willems
Costume, Set and Lighting Design:
William Forsythe
White dress: Issey Miyake
the second detail is a gift from
The Volunteer Committee,
The National Ballet of Canada.
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inderella
Cinderella
June 4—15, 2014
“A masterpiece… the finest Cinderella in the world, bar none.”
The Globe and Mail
Many choreographers have been drawn to the Cinderella story as a ballet subject, and for
very good reason. Replete with themes of transformation, love thwarted and found, familial
discord, broad humour and wonderfully malleable characterization, the story offers a rich
palette of dramatic and comedic opportunity. As well, the surprising, shape-shifting
ebullience of Prokofiev’s score adds to the surreal, touching fabulism of the popular story
and its choreographic potential.
James Kudelka’s version of Cinderella takes full advantage of these wonderful
possibilities, giving the material a touch that is both riotously comic and deeply affecting.
In Kudelka’s hands, the crispness and athleticism of the classical idiom melds with the
often startling kineticism of the modern to shape a fresh re-telling of the well-known
fairy tale in which Cinderella’s journey is less a conventional rags to riches narrative than
an archetypal romance in which love finds its fruition in the restoration of a natural order.
The Art Deco-inspired sets and costumes by David Boechler and the innovative
lighting design by Christopher Dennis complete this visually stunning and totally
beguiling production.
Rebekah Rimsay and Tanya Howard
Guillaume Côté
Choreography: James Kudelka, O.C.
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Set and Costume Design: David Boechler
Lighting Design: Christopher Dennis
Cinderella is a gift from
The Volunteer Committee,
The National Ballet of Canada.
Sonia Rodriguez with Artists of the Ballet
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2013|14 Calendar
Fall Season November 2013
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
4 5 6 7 8 9 Swan Lake 10 Swan Lake
Holiday Season December 2013 / January 2014
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
9 10 11 12 13 14 Nutcracker 15 Nutcracker
2:00 PM 1:00 PM
7:00 PM 5:30 PM
16 17 18 19 Nutcracker 20 Nutcracker 21 Nutcracker 22 Nutcracker
2:00 PM 1:00 PM
7:00 PM 7:00 PM 7:00 PM 5:30 PM
23 Nutcracker 24 Nutcracker 25 26 27 Nutcracker 28 Nutcracker 29 Nutcracker
1:00 PM 1:00 PM 1:00 PM 1:00 PM 1:00 PM
5:30 PM 5:30 PM
30 31 Nutcracker 1 2 Nutcracker 3 Nutcracker 4 Nutcracker 5
1:00 PM 2:00 PM 1:00 PM
Summer Season May / June 2014
7:00 PM 7:00 PM 5:30 PM
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
26 27 28 Spectre 29 Spectre 30 Spectre 31 Spectre 1 Spectre
7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM
2:00 PM 2:00 PM
2 3 4 Cinderella 5 Cinderella 6 Cinderella 7 Cinderella 8 Cinderella
2:00 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 PM
7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM
9 10 11 Gala 12 13 Cinderella 14 Cinderella 15 Cinderella
6:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM
2:00 PM 2:00 PM
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7:30 PM
2:00 PM
11 12 13 Swan Lake 14 Swan Lake 15 Swan Lake 16 Swan Lake 17 Swan Lake
2:00 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 PM
7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM
18 19 20 21 22 Innovation 23 Innovation 24 Innovation
7:30 PM 7:30 PM
25 26 27 Innovation 28 Innovation 29 30
7:30 PM 7:30 PM
Winter Season February / March 2014
2:00 PM 2:00 PM
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
24 25 26 Month 27 Month 28 Month 1 Month 2 Month
2:00 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 PM
7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM
3 4 5 6 7 8 Swan Lake 9 Swan Lake
7:30 PM
2:00 PM
10 11 12 Swan Lake 13 Swan Lake 14 Swan Lake 15 Swan Lake 16 Swan Lake
7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM
2:00 PM 2:00 PM
17 18 19 Onegin 20 Onegin 21 Onegin 22 Onegin 23 Onegin
2:00 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 PM
7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM
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“Nothing short of spectacular”
National Post
presents
The Nutcracker
December 14, 2013—January 4, 2014
The National Ballet’s sumptuous, comical, touching and spellbinding version of E.T.A.
Hoffmann’s Christmas tale was created in 1995 and has been enthralling audiences –
especially children – ever since. It is a refreshingly traditional version of the story, replete
with the details of childhood dreams and the appeal of fantasy, a ballet gloriously designed
and costumed and brimming with affection for and insight into the passage from childhood
to maturity that all children make.
Re-setting the story to Imperial Russia, with its simple folk customs and its overwhelming
opulence, choreographer James Kudelka allows full rein to both his instincts for everyday
beauty and dazzling spectacle, for natural wonder and dreamlike astonishment, all
conveyed in an array of breathtaking choreography. The entire production is a glittering,
enchanting gem of a ballet, a work that is at once deeply familiar and forever new.
Piotr Stanczyk with Artists of the Ballet
Tanya Howard with Artists of the Ballet
Elena Lobsanova
Choreography and Libretto: James Kudelka, O.C.
Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Set and Costume Design: Santo Loquasto
Lighting Design: Jennifer Tipton
The Nutcracker is made possible by generous financial
support from production underwriters Sandra Pitblado
& Jim Pitblado, C.M., Lawrence & Ann Heisey and an
anonymous friend of the National Ballet.
Prices guaranteed
until November 1
only. Check
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for details.
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YOU dance
The National
YOU
Ballet Reaches Out
YOU dance
dance
Inspiring 66,000 students since 2007
The National Ballet of Canada believes that the arts are integral to a child’s development and enrich the lives
of young people.
“Our goal is to support children’s life-long learning,
development of self-esteem, physical well-being and a sense
of communal responsibility and involvement.”
—YOU dance Artistic Director Lindsay Fischer
YOU dance stands for Youth, Outreach and Understanding Dance and introduces students in grades four
to six to the world of dance through FREE workshops and performances. Students enjoy workshops in their
classrooms, taught by a National Ballet dance educator, and then attend a performance by National Ballet
Apprentices. The moderated performances take place at the Betty Oliphant Theatre in Toronto and venues
around Ontario.
YOU dance has engaged 66,000 students since its inception in 2007.
“You made me feel comfortable doing these dances, you made
me feel free.”
—Anela, Student
“YOU dance is a really valuable program and our school is very
fortunate to participate. It’s great for this professional company
to bring the highest quality dance artists to schools and spark
the students’ interest in dance.”
—Teacher, St. Dominic Savio School
“A couple of my students commented that before the workshop
they didn’t think they could dance, but now they can!”
—Teacher, St. Thomas Aquinas School
The National Ballet of Canada offers many more outreach and education
programmes. To find out more, visit national.ballet.ca/education.
RBC Apprentice Programme sponsored by
YOU dance is supported by the Hal Jackman Foundation,
The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, O.C.,
The Woodbridge Company Limited and one Anonymous Donor.
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Embrace Your Passion by Becoming
a Member of the National Ballet
What inspires you? The Dancers, Touring, Orchestra, The Classical Legacy, Innovative New Work,
Inspiring The Next Generation – or everything? You now have the opportunity to direct your gift to
The National Ballet of Canada through our Embrace Your Passion initiative. We have identified these six
unique areas which require your support.
Your support makes the National Ballet a world
leader in dance.
Make a donation today with your subscription or ticket purchase and let us know what you are most
passionate about!
The Dancers
Touring
Orchestra
The Classical Legacy
Innovative New Work
Inspiring The Next
Generation
These elite artists have dedicated
their lives to ballet. Donations
help the National Ballet provide
dancers with performance
opportunities and access to
the best coaches, mentors and
healthcare professionals to keep
them at the peak of their abilities.
All Canadians should have the
opportunity to witness the
remarkable achievements of the
National Ballet and be proud
that our dancers represent the
vibrancy of Canadian culture in
dance centres across the globe.
Donations support national and
international tours that keep the
National Ballet on the world stage.
The only ballet company in
Canada with its own orchestra,
the National Ballet has always
been committed to the richness
and immediacy of live music.
Donations help the National
Ballet attract and retain the
finest musicians.
Classical ballets remain the
foundation of our art form and
the standard against which all
companies and artists are judged.
Donations contribute to the
significant investment required
for each staging, ensuring that
the classics will endure for future
generations.
New works are essential for
revitalizing the art form and
challenging artists and audiences
with new styles, choreography,
music and ideas. Donations
support the commissioning of
new works that are vital to the
National Ballet’s growth and
success.
The National Ballet believes in the
importance of arts education to a
young person’s development and
actively promotes movement and
imagination within communities
across Canada. Donations ensure
that future generations continue
to be inspired by the beauty and
creativity of dance.
Earl Barnsley, Friends’ Corps
member and donor since 1954, with
First Soloist Elena Lobsanova.
Elena Lobsanova is sponsored
through Dancers First by Sandra Faire
and Ivan Fecan.
Jeanie Davis, Patrons’ Council
member, Volunteer Committee
member and donor since 1972,
with First Soloist Keiichi Hirano.
Keiichi Hirano is sponsored through
Dancers First by Patricia Younger.
Peter Ronn, Patrons’ Council member
and donor since 2006, with Orchestra
member Maria Pelletier.
Norbert Beilstein and Alan Lee, Friends
Corps’ members and donors since
2008, with Resident Cutter Ruth Bartel.
Trina DeSa, Turnout member and donor
since 2003, with Principal Dancer
and choreographer Guillaume Côté.
Guillaume Côté is sponsored through
Dancers First by Emmanuelle Gattuso
and Allan Slaight.
Rachel Hepburn Craig and her
daughter Maike, Friends’ Corps
members and donors since 2011,
with Principal Dancer Heather Ogden.
Heather Ogden is sponsored through
Dancers First by Ira Gluskin and
Maxine Granovsky Gluskin.
Tanya Howard is sponsored through Dancers First by Nancy Pencer. (photo page 14)
Jenna Savella is sponsored through Dancers First by an anonymous donor. (photo page 9)
For more information about our various donor programmes, please visit
national.ballet.ca/supportus or call 416 (toll free 1 866) 345 9595.
The National Ballet of Canada is a registered charity. Charitable Registration Number: 119051449 RR0001
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De l'art plein la vie
The Government of Canada through
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We acknowledge the support of the
Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency
of the Government of Ontario, which
last year funded 1,681 individual
artists and 1,125 organizations in
216 communities across Ontario for a
total of $52.8 million.
New!
You can now buy tickets and invite your friends to join you directly from Facebook with our
new social ticketing app. Simply visit our Facebook page and click on Buy Tickets.
Front Cover: Heather Ogden and Guillaume Côté.
Back Cover: Heather Ogden. Photos by Christopher Wahl.
Photography:
Aleksandar Antonijevic, Marie-Laure Briane, Brian D. Campbell, David Cooper, Sian Richards, Valerie Simmons,
Cylla von Tiedemann and Bruce Zinger.
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2013|14 season
Fall Season
Swan Lake
New! Innovation
World Premieres by Robert Binet,
José Navas and James Kudelka
Holiday Season
The Nutcracker
Winter Season
Watch her &
A Month in the Country
Swan Lake Perfect for March Break
Onegin
Summer Season
New! Spectre de la Rose &
Opus 19/The Dreamer &
the second detail
Cinderella
Mailing Address
The Walter Carsen Centre
for The National Ballet of Canada
470 Queens Quay West
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5V 3K4
Audience and Donor Services
416 345 9595
1 866 345 9595
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