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Larkin Miller & Genevieve Penn Nabity in National Ballet of Canada's The Nutcracker. Photo: Bruce Zinger

Review | National Ballet of Canada’s Nutcracker at 30

By Gianmarco Segato on 7 December 2025 Concert Reviews, Dance, La Scena Online, Region, Scena Arts, Toronto

National Ballet of Canada’s production of The Nutcracker celebrates its 30th anniversary this season. Set in late-Imperial Russia, it was created by choreographer and former NB artistic director James Kudelka in 1995. With sumptuous set and costume designs by Santo Loquasto and atmospheric lighting by Jennifer Tipton, this production is now the crown jewel in the company’s small repertoire of classic ballets. The sparkling snow scene that ends Act 1, followed by the rich ruby red and giant Fabergé egg-festooned Act 2 epitomize the very meaning of ballet in the popular imagination. And it looks like the company has every…

Newswire | PuSh Festival Returns this Winter with 25 Performances and Events

By Newswire on 20 November 2025 Contemporary, Dance, Film, Indigenous, Newswire, Scena Arts, Theatre, Vancouver, West

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is excited to announce the programming for the 2026 Festival, which returns to Vancouver from January 22 to February 8, 2026. For two and a half weeks, PuSh Festival invites audiences to discover innovative contemporary works of live performances by local, national and international artists. PuSh has been the city’s midwinter anchor for more than two decades—a place where live arts are celebrated, where risk is rewarded, and where audiences engage with bold, audacious performances. The 2026 PuSh Festival will continue to defy the bounds of discipline, bringing together 25 presentations of theatre, dance, music, installation, film,…

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Review | Fall For Dance North Kathak & Ballet

By Gianmarco Segato on 10 November 2025 Concert Reviews, Dance, La Scena Online, Region, Scena Arts, Toronto

Kathak & Ballet was a featured signature program this year at Toronto’s Fall For Dance North Festival held Oct. 15-26. It was co-curated by the festival’s artistic director and co-CEO, Robert Binet with one of Canada’s premiere Kathak dancers and choreographers, Tanveer Alam. As mentioned in Alam’s pre-show speech on Oct. 25, the program’s aim was to assert kathak’s rightful place alongside the country’s most heavily funded art form, ballet. An international cast of dancers highlighted the rigorous technical requirements and profound artistry of both dance traditions in a program of contrasts, and remarkable intersections. Alam opened with his own…

Shaakir Muhammad, Christopher Gerty & Matthieu Pagès with Artists of the Ballet in Procession. Photo: Karolina Kuras

Review | Procession: National Ballet’s Winner

By Gianmarco Segato on 5 November 2025 Concert Reviews, Dance, La Scena Online, Region, Scena Arts, Toronto

The National Ballet of Canada opened its 2025-26 season on Nov. 1 with the world premiere of Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber’s Procession. Former dancers with the renowned Batsheva Dance Company based in Tel Aviv, the choreographic pair—who are also a couple offstage—bring a practice steeped in collaboration to their first work for the company. The result is a jubilant, boldly-conceived and visually-striking piece that is perhaps the most successful new National Ballet commission in many a year. The ballet is inspired by questions prompted by the idea of procession: “It’s travelling where? It’s going away from what? It…

Newswire | STOMP Celebrates Over 30 Years Of Touring With Four Shows In Vancouver

By Newswire on 5 November 2025 Dance, Multimedia, Newswire, Theatre, West

OCTOBER, 31, 2025, VANCOUVER, BC – STOMP, the London percussion sensation, returns to Vancouver for four performances only at Queen Elizabeth Theatre from November 14 to 16. From its beginnings as a street performance in the UK, STOMP has grown into an international sensation over the past 30+ years, having performed in more than 50 countries and in front of more than 28 million people. Created by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, STOMP continues to tour North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia following 15 years in London’s West End and 29 years at New York’s Orpheum Theatre, and lengthy sit-down productions in San Francisco, Boston and Las Vegas. Throughout its…

Mécénat Musica | 5NextGen Program

By Emma Yee on 28 October 2025 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Dance, Multimedia, Opera, Strings, Visual Arts

Mécénat Musica 5NextGen program has invited founders/artistic/executive directors between the ages of 25 and 39 from Orchestre Agora, ArtCrush, Musique 3 Femmes, HausMusique, and Orchestre Philharmonique & Choeur des Mélomanes (OPCM) to become Ambassadors-in-Residence, working to create an initial $1 million endowment fund in perpetuity for each of their organizations. As cellist and HausMusique Co-Artistic Director Cameron Crozman describes: “Since its inception, the [Mécénat Musica] program has offered an unprecedented opportunity for Quebec-based organizations to encourage their community of visionary donors to support the creation of endowment funds … It starts with education: informing donors that there exists in Quebec…

Photo: Johan Persson/Courtesy of Canada’s National Ballet School

Report | My Week in Canada’s National Ballet School Musicians’ Mentoring Program

By Andrea Rush on 27 October 2025 Dance, Piano, Toronto

George Balanchine described dance as visual music. “See the music, hear the dance” was his motto. The interconnectedness between sight and sound is not easy for instrumental musicians—pianists, orchestral musicians and their conductor—to convey. Mastering this skillset is remarkably complex and worthwhile, as the result is truly magical. Each year the National Ballet School of Canada (NBS) hosts a Musicians’ Mentoring Program in Toronto during the last week of September and the first week of October. This week-long intensive is a program designed for pianists who seek training to accompany dance classes of different levels. The syllabus includes improvisation, selection…

Newswire | Ballet Edmonton Opens 14th Season with Bold New Performance

By Newswire on 16 October 2025 Dance, West

Edmonton, AB – Ballet Edmonton, the city’s acclaimed contemporary ballet company under the artistic direction of Kirsten Wicklund, launches its 14th season with a dynamic new program October 17, 18, and 19 at the Triffo Theatre in Allard Hall. This season’s opener underscores the company’s commitment to bold, innovative work and marks the return of our family friendly Sunday matinee. The season opens with SIREN, spotlighting Canadian Emerging Voices. You’ll see the return of audience favourite Night Breath by Ethan Colangelo, plus two new works: one by Emerging Choreographic Platform artist Nevan Boyden, and another by Béatrice Larrivée, whose perspective…

Soloist Pilar Fernández with fellow performers at Vancouver International Flamenco Festival (2025). Photo: Chris Randle

Review | Celebration at Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

By Kaija Pepper on 1 October 2025 Concert Reviews, Dance, Scena Arts, Vancouver, West

After 35 years, Rosario Ancer is a dab hand at overseeing the annual Vancouver International Flamenco Festival she founded with her late husband, guitarist Victor Kolstee. This edition filled nine mostly warm and sunny late-September days with free outdoor shows on Granville Island and, at night, a handful of ticketed performances. The crowds, as usual, were large and appreciative, eager to join in with shouts of “olé!” The shows, also as usual, were stylistically varied. Palabra Flamenco, an experimental Victoria ensemble that combines English-language poetry with flamenco music and dance, presented Dark Sounds at the Waterfront Theatre (Sept. 24). Artistic…

Newswire | Vancouver Choreographer Joshua Beamish Announces Launch of New Classical Dance Company, Ballet Vancouver

By Newswire on 12 September 2025 Arts Industry, Dance, Vancouver, West

Vancouver, BC — Internationally acclaimed Vancouver choreographer Joshua Beamish announces the launch of Vancouver-based ballet company, Ballet Vancouver Performance Series (Ballet Vancouver), which aims to re-establish a consistent local presence for professional classical, neoclassical, and narrative ballet performed en pointe. Ballet Vancouver will present its inaugural mixed program in celebration of the Company’s official launch at the Vancouver Playhouse on April 23-25, 2026. “After recently celebrating the 20th anniversary of my eponymous dance company, Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY, I began reflecting upon what was missing from the local dance ecology of Vancouver – my home city,” says Beamish. “While we have a…

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