Mad Hot Ballet Gala 2016: 38 pictures from inside last night’s event

The tears spilling from Karen Kain’s dazzling green eyes at last night’s Mad Hot Ballet gala were, thankfully, tears of gratitude and joy.

Around 1,000 guests packed the (nearly) renovated Polson Pier for the annual National Ballet of Canada fundraiser, which usually lives in the Four Seasons Centre and features a post performance dinner on-stage.

But the complicated set for Le Petit Prince couldn’t be torn down and reconstructed in ample time, so that meant moving the event to a new space. What the clubby venue lacked in décor, the guests made up for with DelPozo, Proenza and Gucci galore.

After posing for selfies at a Chloe rose wall, guests could sip Moet and bid on Gap denim embellished with Swarovski crystals in an I-heart-ballet theme. An elegant dinner by North 44 was preceded by a taste of dance, including Svetlana Lunkina’s gorgeous dying swan, and a steamy Bolero (those Heather Ogden lifts!).

A tribute video highlighting key moments from Kain’s 10 years as Artistic Director was followed by a presentation of a spectacular gift. Greta Constantine’s Kirk Pickersgill and Stephen Wong recreated Andy Warhol’s 1980 portrait of Kain in Swarovski stones on the back of a Gap jacket. Like the theme of the party, it was Outta This World.

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Illustration by Stephanie Anne

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Illustration by Stephanie Anne

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Illustration by Stephanie Anne

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Illustration by Michael Hak

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Illustration by Stephanie Anne

Photography by George Pimentel

Illustration by Stephanie Anne

Photography by George Pimentel

Illustration by Michael Hak

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Illustration by Michael Hak

Photography by George Pimentel

Illustration by Stephanie Anne

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

Photography by George Pimentel

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Karen Kain and Ross Petty

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Sarah Gadon

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Bernadette Morra and Victoria Webster

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Heather Odgen and Guillaume Côté

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Natalie Von Teichman

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Suzanne and Mark Cohon

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Greta Hodgkinson

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Bernadette Morra

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Sonia Rodriguez

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Gabriel Fain and Chelsy Meiss

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Ashley Hughson

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McGee Maddox

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Mary Symons

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Kirk Pickersgill and Nicholas Mellamphey

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Amoryn Engel

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Xiao Nan Yu and Evan McKie

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Jillian Vanstone

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Gary Berman and Sonja Berman

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Appolonia

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Fernanda Dovigi and Brianne Leder

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Daniel J. Greenglass and Joe Brennan

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Sylvia Mantella

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Jenna Bitove

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Colette Van Den Thillart

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Svetlana Lunkina

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Vanessa Mulroney

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Guillaume Côté

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Joe Azouri and Alexandra Azouri

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Rana Florida and Sarah MacDonald

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Benoit-Louis Vuitton

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Rex Harrington and Bob Hope

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Randi Bitove and Blair Bitove

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Jordana Daumec and Harrison James

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Tina Pereira

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Mahna Zadeh

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Vanessa Mulroney and Jane Hanrahan

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Emily Burnett

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Jonas Prince and Linda Prince

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