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"a glittering centrepiece in the company's repertoire"
- The National Post, 2007
The National Ballet of Canada's timeless classic The Sleeping Beauty opens November 13, 2009. Don’t miss your chance to see this landmark production by Rudolf Nureyev.
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"Aszure Barton is one of the most poised and exciting choreographers working anywhere today."
- Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada
Canadian choreographer Aszure Barton discusses her upcoming world premiere for The National Ballet of Canada. Ms. Barton's new work will be presented with George Balanchine's The Four Temperaments and Jerome Robbins' Glass Pieces, November 25 – 29, 2009.
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New Corps de Ballet member McGee Maddox talks about moving to Toronto from Houston, Texas, the power and energy of Glass Pieces and his first Canadian winter.
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Enhance your appreciation of The National Ballet of Canada and join the Friends' Corps today! Don't miss an exciting season of engaging, behind the scenes events.
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Company News
Music Director and Principal Conductor David Briskin will conduct the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra in its first concert of the season on October 9, 2009 at 7:30 pm at the MacMillan Theatre. The programme features works by Beethoven, Webern and Mahler, with student baritone Vasil Garvanliev.
Second Soloists Elena Lobsanova and Noah Long will perform with the Apprentices in YOU dance at the Algoma Fall Festival in Sault Ste. Marie on October 15, 2009.
Principal Dancer Zdenek Konvalina will perform excerpts from Seven Greek Dances in Diaghilev P.S. at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia on October 19, 2009 to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Diaghilev's Russian Seasons.
Corps de Ballet member Klara Houdet will perform in In the steps of Bach, an evening of dance celebrating the legacy of J.S. Bach, in support of the Montreal Bach Festival, on October 29, 2009 at Le Lion D'Or in Montreal.
Former National Ballet of Canada dancer Martin Lindinger appears with ProArteDanza at the Fleck Dance Theatre, October 14 – 17, 2009. ProArteDanza's 2009 season features a world premiere by Roberto Campanella inspired by the life of Galileo Galelei, Hidden Places, a North American premiere by Artistic Associate and Dora Award-winning choreographer Robert Glumbek and two other celebrated ProArteDanza works.
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Support The National Ballet of Canada by seeing world famous ballets in beautiful cities! Carlson Wagonlit presents Tours en l'Air Holidays for Ballet Lovers accompanied by Canada's Word Lady, Katherine Barber, featuring a 14-day small-group trip in October that includes four ballet performances in Vienna, Stuttgart and Munich.
For more information on this or future ballet holidays, please contact Katherine Barber at toursenlair@gmail.com or 416 693 4496.
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Become an AGO Member today and enjoy all the great benefits of membership including FREE admission for a year and special members only previews.
Click here to learn about how you can get FREE tickets to King Tut. Free tickets can only be booked and used by active AGO Member cardholders.
To join, or for a complete list of AGO Membership benefits, please call 416 979 6620 or go to www.ago.net/general-membership.
*Family, Contributing levels and above
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Delve into the passionate world of Greek drama with Opera Atelier's production of Iphigénie en Tauride and save 15%*. Iphigénie en Tauride runs October 31 – November 7, 2009 at the Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge Street, Toronto.
To buy tickets, click here and use the Promo Code NBOC or call 416 872 5555.
*Some restrictions apply. Offer for Oct. 31, Nov. 3, 4, 6, 7 only. Sections B, C only. Subject to availability.
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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.
BMO Financial Group presents The Four Temperaments & Glass Pieces & World Premiere by Aszure Barton.
The YOU dance performance at the Algoma Fall Festival is sponsored by the RBC Foundation.
Zdenek Konvalina is sponsored through Dancers First by Gretchen Ross.
Elena Lobsanova and Noah Long are sponsored through Dancers First by Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan.
Klara Houdet is sponsored through Dancers First by Lucy White.
Photographs:
1. Zdenek Konvalina with Artists of the Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
2. Aszure Barton. Photo by Juliette Cervantes.
3. McGee Maddox. Photo by Sian Richards.
4. Friends' Corps Backstage Tour at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.
Photo by Andrea Rothecker.
5. Tutankhamun Canopic Coffinette (detail), gold, carnelian and coloured glass, (H) 39 cm.
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18. Photo by Sandro Vannini.
6. Iphigénie en Tauride. Dancer Jack Rennie. Photo by Bruce Zinger.
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