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iPhoto caption: Siphesihle November in 'Flight Pattern.' Photo by Karolina Kuras.
Serge Lifar’s Suite en Blanc came out of the Second World War; Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern emerges from the world of wars we live in today. The double bill might be asking: What role, if any, should dance play in times of crisis?
iPhoto caption: Isabella Kinch, Ben Rudisin and Christopher Gerty in 'The Nutcracker.' Photo by Bruce Zinger.
REVIEW: National Ballet’s scrumptious Nutcracker will melt every last Grinch-heart in town
James Kudelka’s Nutcracker treats children as imaginative equals and adults as worthy of a sprinkling of magic, too. It’s an unwavering, saturated dream of joy you never want to wake up from.
REVIEW: National Ballet’s Procession tangles the lines of sorrow and sensuality
Procession, the National Ballet of Canada’s brooding and stylized world premiere ballet, rushes to the stage with startling vitality — and does so at a funeral.
iPhoto caption: Benu. Photo by Selina McCallum.
REVIEW: The Sankofa Trilogy is a passionate love letter to Jamaica and Black womanhood
“Politician, yuh have to listen.” “No borders on stolen land.” “No genocide inna Gaza.” These are just three of the rallying cries featured on signs held by picketers in word! sound! powah!, the final installation of d’bi young anitafrika’s Sankofa Trilogy.