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National Ballet of Canada

Index National Ballet of Canada

The National Ballet of Canada is Canada's largest ballet company. [1]

63 relations: Alexei Ratmansky, Anne Ditchburn, Australia, Ballet, Betty Oliphant, Boris Volkoff, Canada, Canada's National Ballet School, Celia Franca, Chan-hon Goh, Choreography, Darren Anderson (dancer), David Adams (dancer), David Nixon (choreographer), Early 1990s recession, Emanuel Sandhu, Evan McKie, Four Seasons Centre, Frank Augustyn, Frederick Ashton, George Crum (musician), Greta Hodgkinson, Gweneth Lloyd, James Kudelka, Jurgita Dronina, Karen Kain, Kimberly Glasco, La Sylphide, Les Sylphides, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, List of New York City Ballet dancers, Lois Smith (dancer), Margaret Illmann, Martine van Hamel, Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center), Mikhail Baryshnikov, National Ballet of Canada, Neve Campbell, New York City, New York Public Library, Pas de deux, Prince Igor, Raymond Smith (dancer), Reid Anderson (dancer), Rex Harrington, Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev), Royal Opera House, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Rudolf Nureyev, Sonia Rodriguez, ..., Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, South Africa, St. Lawrence Hall, Svetlana Lunkina, The Carlu, The Royal Ballet, The Sleeping Beauty (ballet), Toronto, United Kingdom, Vanessa Harwood, Veronica Tennant, Xiao Nan Yu, Zdenek Konvalina. Expand index (13 more) »

Alexei Ratmansky

Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky (Алексей Осипович Ратманский, born August 27, 1968 in Leningrad) is a Russian-American choreographer and former ballet dancer.

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Anne Ditchburn

Anne Ditchburn (born October 4, 1949) is a Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, and film actress, headlining films like 1979's Slow Dancing in the Big City as a dancer with a crippling disease, a film directed by Rocky director John G. Avildsen and co-starring Paul Sorvino.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

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Betty Oliphant

Nancy Elizabeth "Betty" Oliphant, (August 5, 1918 – July 12, 2004) was a co-founder of the National Ballet School of Canada.

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Boris Volkoff

Boris Vladimirovich Volkoff, (born Boris Vladimirovich Baskakoff; April 24, 1900 – March 11, 1974) was a Canadian-Russian ballet dancer, director, choreographer and ballet master.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canada's National Ballet School

Canada's National Ballet School, also commonly known as the National Ballet School of Canada, is a classical ballet school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Celia Franca

Celia Franca, (25 June 1921 – 19 February 2007) was the founder of The National Ballet of Canada (1951) and its artistic director for 24 years.

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Chan-hon Goh

Chan-hon Goh, born in 1969 in Beijing, China, is a Chinese-born Canadian ballet dancer.

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Choreography

Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion, form, or both are specified.

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Darren Anderson (dancer)

Darren Anderson (born in Edmonton, Alberta) is an internationally acclaimed ballet dancer.

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David Adams (dancer)

David Adams, (16 November 1928 – 24 October 2007) was a Canadian ballet dancer and a founding member of the National Ballet of Canada.

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David Nixon (choreographer)

David Nixon OBE is a Canadian dance choreographer.

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Early 1990s recession

The early 1990s recession describes the period of economic downturn affecting much of the Western world in the early 1990s.

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Emanuel Sandhu

Emanuel Sandhu (born November 18, 1980) is a Canadian figure skater and dancer.

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Evan McKie

Evan McKie (born April 7, 1983) is a Canadian ballet dancer, writer, and artist.

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Four Seasons Centre

The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts is a 2,071-seat theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located at the southeast corner of University Avenue and Queen Street West, across from Osgoode Hall.

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Frank Augustyn

Frank Joseph Augustyn, (born January 27, 1953) is a Canadian ballet dancer and artistic director.

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Frederick Ashton

Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton (17 September 190418 August 1988) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer.

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George Crum (musician)

George Francis Crum (26 October 1926 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA – 8 September 2007 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) was the first conductor of the National Ballet of Canada and an accomplished pianist, vocal coach and musical arranger.

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Greta Hodgkinson

Greta Hodgkinson (born 1974) is an American ballet dancer and currently a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada.

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Gweneth Lloyd

Gweneth Lloyd, OC (September 15, 1901 - January 1, 1993) was a co-founder of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, a ballet teacher and choreographer.

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James Kudelka

James Kudelka, OC (born September 10, 1955 at Newmarket, Ontario), is a Canadian choreographer, dancer, and director.

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Jurgita Dronina

Jurgita Dronina (born 27 March 1986) is a Russian-Lithuanian ballet dancer.

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Karen Kain

Karen Alexandria Kain, (born March 28, 1951) is a Canadian former ballet dancer, and the artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada.

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Kimberly Glasco

Kimberly Glasco (born November 27, 1960 in Eugene, Oregon) is a Canadian ballerina.

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La Sylphide

La Sylphide (The Sylph; Sylfiden) is a romantic ballet in two acts.

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Les Sylphides

Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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List of New York City Ballet dancers

This is a list of New York City Ballet dancers.

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Lois Smith (dancer)

Lois Irene Smith (8 October 1929 – 22 January 2011) was a Canadian ballet dancer and dance teacher.

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Margaret Illmann

Margaret L. Illmann (born 9 December 1965) is an Australian prima ballerina with an international career.

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Martine van Hamel

Martine van Hamel (born 16 November 1945) is a Dutch choreographer, director, teacher, retired ballerina and former Principal dancer at the National Ballet of Canada and American Ballet Theatre (ABT).

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Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center)

The Metropolitan Opera House (also known as The Met) is an opera house located on Broadway at Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Mikhail Baryshnikov

Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (p; Mihails Barišņikovs; born January 27, 1948), nicknamed "Misha" (Russian diminutive of the name "Mikhail"), is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor.

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National Ballet of Canada

The National Ballet of Canada is Canada's largest ballet company.

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Neve Campbell

Neve Adrianne Campbell (born October 3, 1973) is a Canadian actress.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.

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Pas de deux

In ballet, a pas de deux (French, literally "step of two") is a dance duet in which two dancers, typically a male and a female, perform ballet steps together.

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Prince Igor

Prince Igor (Князь Игорь, Knyaz' Igor') is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin.

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Raymond Smith (dancer)

Raymond Smith is a Canadian ballet dancer and teacher, who was a principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada from 1980 to 1995.

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Reid Anderson (dancer)

Reid Bryce Anderson (born 1 April 1949) is a Canadian ballet dancer, ballet director, and artistic director.

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Rex Harrington

Rex Howard Harrington, (born October 30, 1962 in Peterborough, Ontario) is a Greek-Canadian ballet dancer.

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Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)

Romeo and Juliet (Ромео и Джульетта), Op.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Royal Winnipeg Ballet

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is one of the world's premier dance companies.

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Rudolf Nureyev

Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (Рудольф Хәмит улы Нуриев Rudolf Xämid ulı Nuriyev, p; 17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet ballet and contemporary dancer and choreographer.

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Sonia Rodriguez

Sonia Rodriguez (born December 19, 1972, Toronto) is a Canadian ballerina.

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Sony Centre for the Performing Arts

The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts is a major performing arts venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and it is the country's largest soft-seat theatre.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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St. Lawrence Hall

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Svetlana Lunkina

Svetlana Aleksandrovna Lunkina (Светлана Александровна Лунькина; born 29 July 1979) is a Russian ballerina who is a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada.

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The Carlu

The Carlu is an historic event space in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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The Royal Ballet

The Royal Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England.

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The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)

The Sleeping Beauty (Спящая красавица / Spyashchaya krasavitsa) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts, first performed in 1890.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Vanessa Harwood

Vanessa Clare Harwood, (born 14 June 1947) is a Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director, teacher, and actor.

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Veronica Tennant

Veronica Tennant, (born January 15, 1946) is a Canadian producer, director, and filmmaker and was Principal Dancer, National Ballet of Canada.

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Xiao Nan Yu

Xiao Nan Yu (born 1977/1978) is a principal dancer in the National Ballet of Canada.

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Zdenek Konvalina

Zdenek Konvalina (born 1979) is a multidisciplinary artist who gained international acclaim as a performing artist and in later career developed abstract expressionist painting practice.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ballet_of_Canada

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