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Across Canada, art galleries and museums have pivoted to offering interactive online exhibits and free virtual tours. Read about nine such venues here.

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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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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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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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This past Tuesday, Toronto’s most stylish commingled with The National Ballet of Canada dancers and staff for the company’s annual fundraising event, the Mad Hot Ballet Gala at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, which raised over $1.3 million for the company. This year’s rendition, entitled Northern Lights, was an ode to Canada’s […]

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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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Solange Knowles @nappyandsnappy Like big sis Bey, Solange is all about unexpected references; the New Orleans-based singer recently posted a clip from Disney’s Pocahontas, perhaps giving us a clue as to something in the works. Snippets of her dancing down the city’s neon streets, hanging with her beautiful family and showing off her insanely chic […]

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This past weekend, The National Ballet of Canada welcomed its newest masterpiece to the stage: Le Petit Prince. Based on the famous novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a French writer and aviator, the story is transformed into gorgeous movements choreographed by the NBC’s principal dancer and choreographic associate Guillaume Côté. As the story goes, a […]

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The internet is full of denim hacks – from frayed fringe to razor slashes. But are any as stunning as these created by Canadian designers for a silent auction at tomorrow night’s Mad Hot Ballet Gala? (I swear I would say that even if I weren’t the co-chair for this annual fundraiser for the National […]

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See our National Ballet behind the scenes photos » Up there with a visit to Vogue’s closet and a budget-less Prada shopping spree, getting intimate with a bunch of tutus is one of the quintessential fashion dreams. Last month, we got to live ours with Marjory Fielding, wardrobe supervisor at the National Ballet of Canada, […]

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On any other night, principal dancer Guillaume Côté’s dance moves would be mad hot. Given that the National Ballet of Canada already bestows that superlative on its annual gala, the connection was pretty clear. On Wednesday night, Toronto’s socials, patrons and dance lovers filled the glass-cased Four Seasons Centre for Mad Hot Ballet, this year entitled “Spellbound.” Beginning, fittingly, with a gala performance of several spellbinding numbers, the night’s repertoire featured four pieces choreographed by Côté. The standout among them was surely his solo “Body of Work,” during which he modernized Beethoven’s “Symphony 7 –II, Allegretto” with a series of undulating movements. Another had Leonard Cohen quirk-ified with three caryatid-meets-cabaret style dancers (Dylan Tedaldi, Kathryn Hosier and Felix Paquet) moving sprightly to “Tonight Will Be Fine” and “Dance Me To the End of Love.”

After the performance, guests in gowns (and some in tutus) spilled out into the foyer for cocktails, canapés and the second annual best-dressed award announced by FASHION editor-in-chief Bernadette Morra. Partygoer Lillian To took top honours for her ballet-inspired lashes which spelled out “mad hot.” Meanwhile, Morra herself was dressed in a custom Lucia Matis dress which featured the event’s creative (principal dancer Xiao Nan Yu mid-pose in the King Edward Hotel’s Crystal Ballroom.