By Victor Swoboda Guillaume Côté knows Shakespeare’s Hamlet well. In 2012, he performed the title role in American choreographer Kevin O’Day’s two-hour Hamlet, staged by the National Ballet of Canada, where Côté is a principal dancer. Then he danced the title role in his own short Hamlet Redux, at the 2018 Festival des Arts de St-Sauveur,
By Elaine Gaertner The term “musical” is frequently used to describe dancers and their performances. For Lauren Lovette of New York City Ballet and Vanesa Garcia-Montoya Ribala of Les Grands Ballet Canadiens de Montréal, it can be said that each personifies many different facets of musicality: rhythmic precision and the converse ability to anticipate or
by Philip Szporer You know you’ve “made it” in Quebec when you’re invited to be a guest on the entertaining Radio-Canada talk show, Tout le monde en parle. It’s Sunday mass for the masses, without the religion. More than a million viewers can’t be wrong. Last March, dancer-choreographer Guillaume Côté, one of Canada’s biggest ballet