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Do you crave a little extra volume around your ankles? Will you wear things that serve no practical purpose other than to bring you joy? Are you in search of another elaborate doodad to throw on? Well, you’re in luck. Because leg warmers are back. Just proceed with caution. Love them or hate them, you […]

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At a time when life feel less like the Nutcracker and more like Swan Lake, channeling the off-duty ballerina can feel like an elegant escape. Enter balletcore. For months, balletcore has been gaining traction on TikTok, the undeniable breeding ground for aesthetic subgenres. Comprised of leotards, wraps sweaters, turtle necks, shrugs, flared leggings, wrap tie […]

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The principal dancer plans her final bow.

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It's never too late to try.

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Opulent displays of style and grace filled the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts at Wednesday night’s Mad Hot Ballet: Desert Dream — even before the ballerinas took to the stage. The annual fundraising event for The National Ballet of Canada, which raised $1.2 million this year, brought together 1,800 of Toronto’s most elegant […]

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"Me. The stage. Music. Pitch black. I will miss the forbidden feeling that time does not exist."

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For over 150 years, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has inspired artists across mediums, from the bestselling YA book series Alice in Zombieland to Marilyn Mason’s abandoned film project Phantasmagoria. Right now, Alice is a ballerina, with the beloved story being performed by the National Ballet of Canada with Principal Dancer Jillian Vanstone—who danced the title role in […]

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The online beauty community has its cliques. There are the heavy-makeup lovers, who worship at the altar of Kylie Jenner; the facial-roller crowd, who spend hours on lymphatic drainage; the perpetually dewy “no-makeup” makeup gang, also known as Glossier reps; and so on. Somehow, Jordan Samuel Pacitti’s skincare line, Jordan Samuel Skin, has been embraced […]

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On October 28, seventeen of the world’s best ballet dancers will take to the stage at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto. They will come from nine international elite ballet theatres to join the National Ballet of Canada’s most coveted ballerinas, with the goal of showcasing Canadian talent and building a Canadian star […]

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I was in Berlin for Marc Cain’s fall runway show when the prettiest pastel pink invitation was delivered to my hotel room. Written across the invite in loopy cursive letters was the evening’s theme: Ballet Magnifique. That night, from my seat in the front row, I could see a display of black tulle skirts and […]

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Arguably the “most” favourite of favourite ballets, Swan Lake has been a serious crowd-pleaser long before it became synonymous with Natalie Portman/Mila Kunis’s portrayal of the (in)famous characters. Premiered by the Bolshoi Ballet in 1877 in Moscow, the show has had more than a century to evolve into various renditions, and the one presented at […]

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Making its premiere at The National Ballet of Canada on June 3, A Streetcar Named Desire, by John Neumeier, is set to wow audiences with its balletic interpretation of the Pulitzer-prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams, which was released in 1947. But while the play follows the lead character, Blanche DuBois, through a journey of emotional […]

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