Ballet gala in Toronto

Some very hot international starts are part of the lineup for a ballet gala to be held March 31 at 8 pm at the Sony Centre in Toronto.  Tickets ($55 to $195) are available through Ticketmaster.

Buy ballet gala tickets here. 

Cast subject to change. 

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Bolshoi in Cinema 2018-19 season

November 11, 2018
LA SYLPHIDE (new)

December 2, 2018
DON QUIXOTE (repeat)

December 23, 2018
THE NUTCRACKER 

January 20, 2019
LA BAYADERE (new)

March 10, 2019
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY (repeat)

April 7, 2019
THE GOLDEN AGE 

May 19, 2019
CARMEN SUITE (new)
PETRUSHKA (new, choreography by Edward Clug)

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Canadian Dance Hall of Fame fundraiser

Veronica Tennant in Romeo and Juliet

Dance Collection Danse, the organization devoted to preserving the history of dance in Canada, is holding a fundraiser inaugurating their Dance Hall of Fame.

Date and Time

Sun, 25 March 2018
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

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Location

The Globe and Mail Centre
351 King Street East
Toronto, ON M5A 0N1 

Tickets are $175 + $8.75 fee. 
To buy: 
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/encore-dance-hall-of-fame-tickets-42640089656


The Encore! Dance Hall of Fame event will honour and celebrate dynamic lifelong contributions to dance in Canada by some remarkable individuals. Honorees are associated with many dance disciplines - from Kathak to ballet to contemporary. 

They include Veronica Tennant, Danny Grossman, Karen Jamieson, Ola Skanks, Rina Singha, Alan and Blanche Lund, René Highway, and Jeanne Renaud. Joan and Jerry Lozinski will be inducted as Builders.

Presenters to the inductees include Evelyn Hart, Micah Barnes, Sheila McCarthy, Deepti Gupta, Seika Boye, Louise Bédard, Pam Grundy and Pierre Des Marais.

Hosted by CBC broadcaster Laurie Brown, the event will take place on the 17th floor of the new Globe & Mail Centre in downtown Toronto. 

Recognize the richness of Canada's cultural heritage - take in the amazing views from the rooftop venue - raise a glass to honour these groundbreaking visionaries.
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Proceeds from the event will go towards operations of Dance Collection Danse. A charitable receipt will be issued for the maximum amount allowable. 

For more information:
https://www.encoredancehalloffame.com/

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National Ballet of Canada Sleeping Beauty casting 2018

https://youtu.be/yts3Bl29ooQ

All performances at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto.

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All casting subject to change

	Princess Aurora	Prince Florimund	Principal Fairy	Bluebird	Princess Florine	Diamond Lady	Diamond Man
Thursday 8 March @ 730 pm	Heather Ogden	Guillaume Côté	Alexandra MacDonald	Francesco Gabriele Frola*	Emma Hawes	Alexandra MacDonald	Jack Bertinshaw
Friday 9 March @ 730 pm	Svetlana Lunkina	Harrison James	Hannah Fischer	Skylar Campbell	Tina Pereira	Hannah Fischer	Christopher Gerty
Saturday 10 March @ 2 pm	Jurgita Dronina	Naoya Ebe	Alexandra MacDonald	Kota Sato	Jenna Savella*	Chelsy Meiss	Donald Thom*
Saturday 10 March @ 730 pm	Jillian Vanstone	Francesco Gabriele Frola	Emma Hawes*	Siphesihle November	Miyoko Koyasu*	Alexandra MacDonald	Jack Bertinshaw
Sunday 11 March @ 2 pm	Xiao Nan Yu	Peng-Fei Jiang*	Hannah Fischer	Naoya Ebe	Jillian Vanstone	Jordana Daumec	Giorgio Galli
Tuesday 13 March @ 730 pm	Elena Lobsanova*	Naoya Ebe	Kathryn Hosier	Kota Sato	Jenna Savella*	Chelsy Meiss	Donald Thom
Wednesday 14 March @ 730 pm	Heather Ogden	Guillaume Côté	Alexandra MacDonald	Francesco Gabriele Frola*	Emma Hawes	Hannah Fischer*	Christopher Gerty*
Thursday 15 March @ 730 pm	Svetlana Lunkina	Harrison James	Emma Hawes	Naoya Ebe	Jillian Vanstone	Jordana Daumec	Giorgio Galli
Friday 16 March @ 730 pm	Xiao Nan Yu	Peng-Fei Jiang*	Hannah Fischer	Dylan Tedaldi*	Rui Huang*	Hannah Fischer*	Christopher Gerty*
Saturday 17 March @ 2 pm	Alexandra MacDonald*	Brendan Saye*	Kathryn Hosier	Skylar Campbell	Tina Pereira	Jordana Daumec	Giorgio Galli
Saturday 17 March @ 730 pm	Jillian Vanstone	Francesco Gabriele Frola	Emma Hawes*	Siphesihle November	Miyoko Koyasu*	Hannah Fischer*	Christopher Gerty
Sunday 18 March @ 2 pm	Heather Ogden	Guillaume Côté	Kathryn Hosier	Dylan Tedaldi	Rui Huang*	Chelsy Meiss	Donald Thom*

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Stuttgart Ballet trip July 2018

 

Stuttgart

Reid Anderson Farewell

17-23 July 2018

7 days, 6 nights

5 ballet performances

DRAFT ITINERARY

BALLET BUCKET LIST
 ♥ Onegin by John Cranko performed by his own Stuttgart Ballet in Stuttgart

Sightseeing in beautiful southern Germany

and a celebration of all that the world-renowned Stuttgart Ballet has contributed to the art form

LAND-ONLY PACKAGE allows you the flexibility of arranging

travel from your most

convenient departure point,

on the dates and times you prefer,

and to extend your stay if you wish.

Victor Travel's experienced agents

will be happy to assist you with

flight arrangements.

You can use RBC Reward Points and/or RBC

 Certificates towards 

 

the purchase of this package

Tuesday 17 July

Arrive Stuttgart; check in to 3-star Hotel Motel One, 8 minutes walk from opera house. Early evening: Meet-and-greet in the hotel's lounge. You may arrive earlier in Stuttgart if you wish.

Wednesday 18 July

Morning: watch company class. Afternoon: 2-hour walking tour of central Stuttgart. Evening: Welcome 3-course dinner before Highlights and Favourites from 22 years under Reid Anderson.

Thursday 19 July

Day trip by high-speed train to Strasbourg, France (approx. 1¼ hours each way). 2-hour private guided tour of historic Strasbourg. Lunch. Boat trip on the Ill River. Evening: Performance of Stuttgart Ballet Dances at a Gathering (Robbins), Initials RBME (Cranko).

Friday 20 July

Day trip by train (1 hour each way) to Heidelberg, Germany's most famous university town, dating from the Middle Ages. Walking tour of the old town and visit to the castle. Return to Stuttgart. Performance of Stuttgart Ballet Onegin (Cranko)

Saturday 21 July

Visit by train (1/2 hr) to Ludwigsburg, the Versailles of southern Germany, with private guided tour of the interior of one of Germany's biggest baroque palaces and its beautiful gardens. Evening: Gala of the John Cranko School.

Sunday 22 July

Day at leisure. You can relax in one of Stuttgart's mineral baths, stroll in the lovely Schlossgarten, or have some classic coffee and cake at a cafe. Visit one of Stuttgart's renowned art galleries, or the Mercedes-Benz or Porsche museum, or the botanical garden and zoo. Evening: farewell dinner before Stuttgart Ballet: Gala.

Monday 23 July

Check out of hotel and depart Stuttgart. (You may extend your stay if you wish).

Current ESTIMATED package price (land only):

$3500 (Cdn) per person double occupancy, 

single supplement $400 (Cdn). 

If you are interested in this trip, please email Katherine Barber at toursenlair@gmail.com as soon as possible. If there is sufficient interest to pursue this, booking will open mid-March and the signup deadline will be early April.

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Bolshoi Flames of Paris Cinema Broadcast: Cast & Synopsis

 https://youtu.be/H-G_7kLPFrA


Bolshoi in Cinema broadcast of Alexei Ratmansky's Flames of Paris in select Cineplex theatres in Canada, March 4 at 1255. Click here for Canadian locations. Click here for locations and dates elsewhere.

Jeanne, daughter of Gaspard and Lucille	Margarita Shrainer
Jerome, her brother	Denis Savin
Philippe, a Marseillais	Igor Tsvirko
The Marquis Costa de Beauregard	Semyon Chudin
Adeline, his daughter	Ana Turazashvili
Mireille de Poitiers, an actress	Kristina Kretova
Antoine Mistral, an actor	Artem Ovcharenko
Jarcasse, an old woman	Irina Zibrova
Gilbert, captain of the Marseillais	Alexander Vodopetov
King Louis XVI	Gennadi Yanin
Queen Marie Antoinette	Nelli Kobakhidze
Gaspard, a peasant	Yuri Ostrovsky
Lucille, his wife	Anna Antropova
Amour in the ballet Rinaldo and Armida	Daria Khokhlova
Apparition of Bride in the ballet Rinaldo and Armida	Olga Kishnyova
Friends to Armida in the ballet Rinaldo and Armida	Yulia Grebenshchikova Elvina Ibraimova Alyona Kovalyova Olga Marchenkova
Furies in the ballet Rinaldo and Armida	Daria Bochkova Anastasia Gubanova Anastasia Kazakova Tatiana Lazareva Svetlana Pavlova Xenia Zhiganshina
Huntsmen, friends to the Marquis	Batyr Annadurdyev Anton Gaynutdinov Alexei Gaynutdinov Maxim Oppengeym
Auvergne dance	Kristina Karasyova Oxana Sharova Ivan Alexeyev Vitaly Biktimirov
Marseillaise dance	Andrei Bolotin Georgy Gusev Alexei Matrakhov
President of the Convention	Alexander Fadeyechev
Master of Ceremonies	Alexei Loparevich
David, an artist	Egor Simachev
Sutler	Anastasia Vinokur

Act I
Scene 1
A suburb of Marseilles, the town which gave its name to the French National anthem. Through the forest a large group of people are on the move. This is the battalion of the Marseillais who are on their way to Paris. A cannon which they are taking with them indicates their intentions. Among the men of Marseilles is Philippe.
It is by the cannon that Philippe makes the acquaintance of the peasant girl Jeanne. He kisses her on parting. Jeanne’s brother, Jerome, longs to join the Marseillais.
In the distance is the castle of the Marquis Costa de Beauregard, the local seigneur. Hunters are returning to the castle, among whom are the Marquis and his daughter, Adeline.
The ’noble’ Marquis makes advances to the pretty peasant girl, Jeanne. The latter tries to free herself from his pawing, but only manages to do so with the help of Jerome, who comes to hissister’s defense.
Jerome is beaten up by the hunters from the Marquis’s suite, and thrown into a prison cellar. Adeline, who has observed the scene, frees Jerome, and in their hearts a mutual feeling for each other is born. The sinister, old woman Jarcasse, who has been employed by the Marquis to keep an eye on his daughter, informs her adored master of the escape. The Marquis slaps his daughter and orders her to get into a carriage, accompanied by Jarcasse. They are going to Paris.
Jerome bids farewell to his parents. It is not safe for him to remain on the Marquis’s estate. He and Jeanne go off with a detachment of the Marseillais. Their parents are inconsolable.
Volunteers are enrolling in the detachment. Together with the crowd, the men of Marseilles dance a farandola. The men put on red caps in place of their old headwear. Jerome is given a gun by the leader of the insurgents, Gilbert. Jerome and Philippe ’harness’ themselves to the cannon. The detachment moves off to Paris to the strains of the Marseillaise.

Scene 2
The sound of the Marseillaise gives way to an elegant minuet. The royal palace. The Marquis and Adeline have arrived here. The Master of Ceremonies announces the start of the ball.
Rinaldo and Armida, a court ballet, with the Paris stars Mireille de Poitiers and Antoine Mistral: Sarabande — Armida and her friends. Armida’s forces return from a campaign. Prisoners are led in. Among them is Prince Rinaldo.
Amour aims an arrow at the hearts of Armida and Rinaldo. Variation — Amour. Armida frees Rinaldo.
Pas de deux Rinaldo and Armida.
The phantom of Rinaldo’s bride appears. Rinaldo abandons Armida and sails off in a boat after the phantom. Armida conjures up a storm. Waves cast Rinaldo onto the seashore, he is surrounded by furies.
Dance — Furies. Rinaldo falls dead at Armida’s feet.

King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette make their entrance. Greetings, oaths of loyalty and toasts to the prosperity of the monarchy follow.
The tipsy Marquis chooses the Actress as his next ’victim’, and starts to ’court’ her in the same way as he had Jeanne, the peasant girl. The strains of the Marseillaise are heard from the street. The courtiers and officers panic. Making use of this, Adeline escapes from the palace.
Act II
Scene 3
A square in Paris, into which the men of Marseilles march, among whom are Philippe, Jerome and Jeanne. A shot from their cannon is to give the signal for the start of the assaulton the Tuileries.
Suddenly, in the square, Jerome catches sight of Adeline. He rushes over to her. The sinister, old woman Jarcasse spies on their meeting.
In the meantime, in honor of the arrival of the detachment of men from Marseilles, a barrel of wine is rolled out into the square. Dances get underway: the Auvergne dance gives way to theMarseillaise dance, then the temperamental dance of the Basques starts up, in which all the chief characters take part: Jeanne, Philippe, Adeline, Jerome and Gilbert, the captain of the Marseillais.
In the crowd, flushed with wine, petty brawls break out here and there. Stuffed dolls of Louis and Marie Antoinette are torn to pieces. Jeanne with a spear in her hands dances the carmagnole to the singing of the crowd. Philippe, who is drunk, lights the fuse, there is volley of cannon fire, after which the crowd dashes off to storm the Tuileries.
Against a background of shots being fired and the beating of drums, Adeline and Jerome declare their love for each other. They are oblivious to what is going on around them.
The Marseillais break into the palace. They are led by Jeanne, waving a flag. Fighting. The palace is taken.
Scene 4
The crowd fills the square which is decorated with lanterns. Members of the Convention and new government mount the tribune.
The crowd rejoices. The famous artists, Mireille de Poitiers and Antoine Mistral, who before had entertained the king and his courtiers, now perform the Freedom dance for the people. The new dance is little different to the old, only now, the actress holds the Republican flag in her hands. Artist David is sketching the celebration.
By the cannon, from which the first volley had been fired, the President of the Convention unites the hands of Jeanne and Philippe. These are the first young newly weds of the new Republic
The sound of Jeanne and Philippe’s betrothal dance gives way to the muffled thuds of the falling knife of the guillotine.
The condemned Marquis is led in. Seeing her father, Adeline rushes over to him, but Jerome, Jeanne and Philippe beg her not to give herself away. In order to revenge the Marquis, Jarcasse betrays Adeline, revealing her true origins. Roused to fury, the crowd demands her death. Beside himself with despair, Jerome tries to save Adeline, but to no avail. She is guillotined. Frightened for their lives, Jeanne and Philippe restrain the struggling Jerome.
The celebration continues. To the strains of Ca ira, the triumphant populace moves downstage towards the audience.

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