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Discover the latest Canada Council prize winners

By Newswire on 9 July 2025 Arts Industry, Dance, Literature, Newswire, Opera, Strings, Visual Arts, Vocal

The Canada Council for the Arts has the immense pleasure of recognizing the following prize winners for their contributions to photography, dance, visual arts, literature and music. Bernard Diamant Prize Emma Pennell is recognized for their powerful operatic voice and unwavering advocacy for Indigenous representation in classical music. Emma will receive a $5,000 prize. Read More Canada Council for the Arts Photography Prize Sandra Brewster is recognized for her compelling explorations of identity, memory, and place through photo-based and multimedia art. Sandra will receive a $8,000 prize. Read More Jacqueline Lemieux Prize Cai Glover is recognized for his innovative choreography that fuses movement…

Claudine Schoch and Marcos Menha; Hyo‑jung Kang and Marcos Menha. Photos: Ashley Taylor

Review | As he exits, Martin Schläpfer puts a modern stamp on Vienna State Ballet

By Ossama el Naggar on 7 July 2025 Concert Reviews, Dance, Scena Arts

A revolution has erupted: the Swiss dancer and choreographer Martin Schläpfer, formerly director of Düsseldorf’s Ballet am Rhein (known for its innovative choreography), became director and chief choreographer of the venerable Wiener Staatsballett in the 2020/21 season. The Covid pandemic happened during his first year in that new position and hampered his creative projects. His first choreography, 4, was premiered during the pandemic to an almost empty theatre. Seen on June 22, 4, is set to the Fourth Symphony by Gustav Mahler, whose music is not the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of ballet. Like his…

SekouMcMiller and Friends, Marielys Molina. Photo: Elyse Mertz

Fall for Dance North Announces 11th Annual Festival Lineup

By Newswire on 23 June 2025 Dance, Newswire, Scena Arts, Toronto

TORONTO, ON – Fall for Dance North (FFDN) unveils its 11th annual lineup, featuring a vibrant mix of more than 30 Canadian and international artists across eight distinct mixed programs, from October 15-26, 2025. Under the festival’s new leadership of Co-CEO’s, Festival Director Lily Sutherland and Artistic Director Robert Binet, and co-curated with FFDN 2025 Artist-in-Residence Esie Mensah and renowned Toronto Kathak dancer Tanveer Alam, FFDN’s 2025 season builds on its roots with an exciting new vision. Grounded by three dynamic signature mixed programs and supported by a series of intimate performance offerings, this year’s festival increases accessibility for the…

Juan Duarte and Kyra Soo in Endless Summer. Photo: Jack Tupper

Review | MOVETHECOMPANY’s Gala is All About the Dancers

By Kaija Pepper on 2 June 2025 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Dance, Scena Arts, Vancouver, West

It was great to see a well-filled Vancouver Playhouse on the May 29th opening night of MOVETHECOMPANY’s 20th Anniversary Gala, with another crowd booked in for the second, closing show. Artistic director Joshua Beamish brought in a few leading dancers from major international ballet companies to up the glamour and give Vancouverites a welcome dose of pointe shoes and elegance—ballet is a hard sell in this city, and companies have stopped touring here, leaving many bereft. The earthiness and quirks of contemporary dance were also much in evidence—all five pieces were choreographed by Beamish, who straddles both worlds. The highlight…

The 34th Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur program unveiled

By Newswire on 6 May 2025 Dance, Film, Multimedia, Newswire

Saint-Sauveur, May 6th, 2025. For its 34th season, from July 23rd to August 3rd, FASS, now the largest regional dance presenter in the country, unveils its international-calibre program in terms of the number of large-scale shows it offers and its record attendance. Performances under the big top kick off this year on Wednesday, July 23rd at 8 p.m. with a triple bill from BalletX featuring Loughlan Prior’s Macaroni, Takehiro Ueyama’s Heroes and Justin Peck’s Becomes a Mountain. This vibrant contemporary ballet company from Philadelphia, hailed as “one of America’s best” (The New York Times), will kick off the 2025 Festival with flair. Regularly gracing major theatres and festivals, BalletX boldly ventures beyond…

Hubert Hazebroucq and Ensemble Doulce Mémoire

Review | Hubert Hazebroucq Leads Choreographed Splendor with EMV and Ensemble Doulce Mémoire

By Madeline Boldt on 17 April 2025 Baroque and Early, Concert Reviews, Dance, Vancouver, West

Doulce Mémoire is an old French phrase that can be translated as “sweet memory,” a poetic connection to the past. This is what Ensemble Doulce Mémoire and Renaissance and baroque dance specialist Hubert Hazebroucq brought to the Vancouver Playhouse for Early Music Vancouver’s presentation of Now Let Us Dance on April 12th. A tribute to song and dance of the 15th and 16th centuries, the performance was unlike anything I had ever seen or heard before. The narrative aspect of the show kept the audience holding onto every detail with the show divided into four separate story segments. The first was…

Ballet Edmonton presents PRECIPICE, an evening of contemporary dance theatre

By Newswire on 15 April 2025 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Dance

April 10th, 2025 (Edmonton, Alberta) Ballet Edmonton presents PRECIPICE, a triple-header evening of bold new contemporary dance theatre by Artistic Director Kirsten Wicklund and Emerging Choreographers. This program marks the edge of a season forging toward new territory with a WORLD PREMIERE new work by Kirsten Wicklund. Approaching the close of her inaugural season with Ballet Edmonton, Wicklund crafts a new creation, reflecting on the brink of potential, the tipping point — the moment of change itself. Alongside this work, company members and emerging choreographers Matthew Wyllie and Diego Ramalho present WORLD PREMIERE works as part of Ballet Edmonton’s Emerging…

Artists of Atelier Ballet in Opera Atelier's production of Charpentier's David and Jonathan. Photo: Bruce Zinger

Review | Opera Atelier Showcases French Baroque Spectacle in David and Jonathan

By Gianmarco Segato on 11 April 2025 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Dance, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

Opera Atelier celebrates its 40th anniversary season with a work that surely must be considered at the core of its four-decade mission. Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s David and Jonathan (1688) exemplifies the 17th-century French tragédie en musique, an opera based on a tragic subject from mythology, or in this case, the bible. Told in five acts plus prologue, David and Jonathan includes divertissements for a ballet troupe interspersed with all manner of singing, not only for a large number of named soloists, but also, an eight-member onstage ensemble, as well as a full off-stage chorus. In other words, the type of spectacle…

NTS unveils the 2025 Gascon-Thomas Award recipients

By Newswire on 18 March 2025 Arts Industry, Dance, Film, Montreal, Multimedia, Music Competition, Musical Theatre, Newswire, Theatre, Toronto

ahdri zhina mandiela and Brigitte Poupart: Recipients of the 2025 Gascon-Thomas Awards from the National Theatre School of Canada Montreal, March 18, 2025 – The National Theatre School of Canada (NTS) is proud to announce the recipients of the 32nd edition of the Gascon-Thomas Awards. This prestigious event recognizes outstanding artists who have made a lasting impact on the performing arts landscape in Canada and beyond. This year, NTS is celebrating two major figures in theatre and multidisciplinary arts: ahdri zhina mandiela and Brigitte Poupart. ahdri zhina mandiela, a pivotal figure in Canada’s artistic landscape, is the recipient of the…

Byron Stripling with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Photo: Madeline Boldt

Review | Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Rhythms of Harlem

By Madeline Boldt on 17 March 2025 Concert Reviews, Dance, Jazz, Orchestral, Vancouver, Vocal Jazz, West

With Uptown Nights (seen March 8), the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra paid tribute to the world of jazz as it was founded on the talents of Harlem era musicians. The rise of jazz coincided with the emergence of incredible musicians like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald. As it became increasingly popular throughout the Roaring Twenties, jazz served as an outlet for expression and freedom, with its unpredictability and syncopation resonating with audiences for generations to come. Beyond all else, jazz is a living, breathing thing, and trumpeter Byron Stripling embodies this. Stripling has a presence like no other, with…

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