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September 2009
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Subscribers can buy advance single tickets now – just one of the benefits of subscribing.
Remember to use the promotion code sent to you by mail and email.
The 2009/10 season opens with the treasured classic The Sleeping Beauty on November 13, 2009.
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The National Ballet of Canada is sending 10 dancers to be presented by Dance Victoria on September 26, The Port Theatre in Nanaimo on September 28 and with Ballet BC at the Vancouver Playhouse on September 30.
Click here for repertoire and casting.
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Newly promoted Second Soloist Jenna Savella talks about stepping into the role of a soloist this season and dancing in Aszure Barton’s brand new piece for The National Ballet of Canada.
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Kids Corps & T-dot: Two Amazing Opportunities for Young People.
Kids Corps is a membership programme specifically designed for children ages 5 to 12. Four family friendly events are offered each year and each child receives a t-shirt, membership card and fun newsletters over the course of the season. Click here for information and to register.
Now in its seventh year, T-dot is a FREE programme that brings together eight Toronto arts organizations to provide hands-on workshops and arts experiences in dance, theatre, opera and film for youth ages 15 to 18. Space is limited so visit paone.ca for information.
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15% OFF regular ticket prices* from September 26 to October 14 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.
Puccini’s gorgeous music and the COC’s critically acclaimed production provide an exquisitely beautiful backdrop for one of the best loved operas of all time.
To order, visit COC.ca or call
416-363-8231. Use the promo code Butterfly when ordering.
*Subject to availability, excludes sections 2A and 2B
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Company News
Principal Dancers Sonia Rodriguez and Piotr Stanczyk will dance a pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty at the International Ballet Festival of Miami in Florida on September 12 & 13, 2009.
The National Ballet of Canada will perform a preview presentation from Aszure Barton’s world premiere at Yonge-Dundas Square on September 16, 2009 at 9:00 pm as part of the Toronto International Film Festival’s screening of Mao’s Last Dancer.
Principal Dancer Guillaume Côté will dance the role of Prince Siegfried in a new version of Swan Lake revised by Mikhail Messerer at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia on September 16 & 19, 2009.
Principal Character Artist Tomas Schramek will be honoured at the 60th anniversary celebrations of SLUK, the state folk dance ensemble that he first danced with in 1959, in Bratislava, Slovakia on September 26 & 27, 2009.
Grace Hanley and McGee Maddox join the company this season as members of the Corps de Ballet. Grace joins us from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and McGee from Houston Ballet.
In our last issue, we congratulated former First Soloist Christopher Body and Corps de Ballet member Lise-Marie Jourdain on their marriage. Click here to read about their wedding and view images.
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The 2009/10 season is presented by CTV and The Globe and Mail.
The Sleeping Beauty is made possible by generous contributions from Margaret & Jim Fleck, The Catherine & Maxwell Meighen Foundation, Sandra & Jim Pitblado, Gretchen Ross and Nancy Pencer & Michael Benjamin.
Guillaume Côté is sponsored through Dancers First by Emanuelle Gattuso & Allan Slaight.
Jenna Savella is sponsored through Dancers First by Elvio & Marlene DelZotto.
Keiichi Hirano is sponsored through Dancers First by an anonymous donor.
Photographs:
1. Heather Ogden with Artists of the Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
2. Guillaume Côté in Apollo. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
3. Jenna Savella. Photo by Sian Richards.
4. Lisa Robinson with Kids Corps Members at The Nutcracker movement workshop. Photo by Bruce Zinger.
5. (left to right) Xiu Wei Sun as Cio-Cio-San, Liam Benson as Trouble and Allyson McHardy as Suzuki in the COC's production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, 2003. Photo by Michael Cooper
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