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 Rachel Silver Maddock Moving into an independent career is a big shift, and three of Canada’s high-profile dance companies — Ballet BC, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, and the National Ballet of Canada — offer artist-in-residence positions to support former dancers in transition. Though the role at the three companies varies, the overall
It was a long wait but worth it. Almost 11 years after Crystal Pite astonished the National Ballet of Canada’s hometown Toronto audience with her first large-ensemble work, Emergence, the now internationally renowned choreographer returned to the Four Seasons Centre with a new ballet for the company, which premiered February 29. It proved an even