by Kyra Laubacher | Jan 6, 2026 | News, Onstage, The Latest
It’s a new year, and with that come several new ballets to help ring in 2026. Across North America, choreographers are reimagining canonical works, putting their own spins on celebrated texts, and creating exciting neoclassical pieces.From San Francisco to Alberta and...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 13, 2021 | Training
Being a boy in ballet isn’t always easy. We all remember what happened on “Good Morning America” a few years ago, when co-host Lara Spencer made fun of England’s then–6-year-old Prince George for taking ballet classes. Canada’s Ballet Jörgen recently launched an...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jan 28, 2020 | News, The Latest
Last year we found out that Canada’s Ballet Jörgen was creating a full-length ballet based on one of our all-time favorite children’s books—Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables—and, needless to say, we were thrilled. It seems that audiences...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Sep 15, 2019 | News, Trending
Canada’s Ballet Jörgen is committed to telling Canadian stories by Canadian choreographers. For its next full-length ballet, director Bengt Jörgen turned to what he calls “perhaps the most quintessential Canadian story” of all time: Lucy Maud...
