by Kathleen Smith | May 23, 2025 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Guillaume Côté has been a guest artist all over the world, from La Scala to Lincoln Center to Covent Garden. In recent years he’s also developed a robust choreographic practice, creating explosive solos, one-act ballets, and complex full-length productions like Frame...
by Amy Brandt | Jul 26, 2024 | News, The Latest
Karen Kain’s 2021 retirement as artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada coincided with one of the biggest challenges of her 50-year career: mounting a new, full-length production of Swan Lake. Directing a ballet was something she’d never done before, and...
by Amy Brandt | Feb 7, 2024 | News, The Latest
New York City’s annual Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center is always a feast of dance-centric films, from documentaries to choreographic works to shorts. This year’s fest, which runs February 9 through 12, features 11 programs and 36 films, including 8 world...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 4, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles
Greta Hodgkinson has been a staple on the National Ballet of Canada stage for 30 years. The Providence, Rhode Island, native trained at Festival Ballet Providence and Canada’s National Ballet School before joining the company in 1990; she became a principal just...
by Lauren Wingenroth For Dance Magazine | Oct 27, 2019 | News, Profiles
On Friday, National Ballet of Canada announced that artistic director Karen Kain will step down in January 2021 to become artistic director emeritus. Kain, who has served as artistic director since 2005, joined NBoC as a dancer in 1969 and went on to become one of the...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Aug 29, 2019 | News, Profiles
This week, 62 of the world’s top young dancers trained in the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus gathered in Toronto for the annual Genée International Ballet Competition. Each year, the Genée is hosted by a different country; this was its first turn...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jun 17, 2019 | Career, Profiles
On June 22, National Ballet of Canada principal Xiao Nan Yu will retire from the stage after 22 years with the company. Originally from Dalian, China, Yu studied at the Shen Yang School of Dance and the Beijing Dance Academy before coming to Canada’s National...
by Claudia Bauer | Nov 11, 2018 | Cover Story
Adji Cissoko has the alchemical blend of willowy limbs and earthy musicality you expect from a dancer in Alonzo King LINES Ballet. But she also has something more—a joy in dancing that makes every step feel immediate. “She has this soulful quality of an ancient...