By Gary Smith There sometimes comes a moment in a choreographer’s career where inspiration, imagination, and dramaturgy ally in a very special way. As an audience member, there are sometimes moments when movement becomes more than steps, more than storytelling, when something happens onstage that lifts you out of your theatre seat and into the
For the past 52 years, Fernand Nault’s version of The Nutcracker by Les Grands Ballets Canadiens has filled Montreal’s largest stage at Place des Arts during the month of December. Since 2014, Nault’s Nutcracker has also drawn audiences to the elegant Janacek Theatre in Brno, the second-largest city in the Czech Republic, in a production