By Michael Crabb The last time the National Ballet of Canada unveiled a new Swan Lake, in May 1999, it bore the unmistakably dystopian thumbprint of then artistic director James Kudelka, and was played out against the backdrop of a public scandal. The previous December, principal dancer Kimberly Glasco had sideswiped the Toronto-based company by
By Silvia Poletti The second Summer of COVID gave Italians the hope (or the illusion) of a return to a certain normality. After dark months bound to home TV or computer screens watching streaming events, at last, at the end of May, theatre doors cautiously opened to limited capacity audiences. By summer, which in Italy
By Gary Smith Choreographer Peter Quanz has two very different artistic bases, where he is involved with two very different companies: one in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he runs his own group, Q Dance, and one in Harbin, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang province in Northern China, where he works with Harbin Ballet. “China’s Harbin Ballet