81 stories by "Martha Schabas"
The Indigenous choreographer Cameron Fraser-Monroe is taking his ballet on tour, "back to the place where the story was kept."
The national company has a new leader, Jurgita Dronina, and a desire to raise its profile to a troupe that can rank among Europe's best.
Dancing barelegged is a bit like playing baseball without a cap. But as ballet confronts its history of racial homogeneity some traditions are being rethought.
How the National Ballet of Canada's principal dancer brings unprocessed feeling to the stage
It is a a strange, quiet, disconcerting and often mesmerizing performance about the end of the world and how we might deal with it.
Excellent performances make the production at Queen Elizabeth theatre in Vancouver both powerful and laconic
Centrepiece ballet, Anna Karenina, features literature's most canonical female victim. Maybe audiences are ready for a differetn type of heroine
The former head of Factory Theatre and the Shaw Festival is carving out a role for herself as a mentor and advocate for women in theatre
The idea of ghosts and disappearances is at the heart of Brodsky/Baryshnikov, an understated one-man show starring famed ballet luminary Mikhail Baryshnikov, now 70
One of the world's all-time great ballet dancers returned to Toronto this week to perform his solo show Brodsky/Baryshnikov
The new version of the National Ballet's choreographic workshop gives company dancers the opportunity to make new work on their colleagues
The conversation about misogyny has moved forward. So why do the performing arts insist on bringing us back to square one?
Layered, intelligent and emotionally powerful, Nijinsky is just as powerful on second viewing
There's brilliance to be found in The 7 Fingers' Triptyque, but it's marred by moments both ugly and uninspired
Principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada is just one of many claims to fame for the Winter's Tale star​​
The riveting overlap between the performing body and real body intrigues and excites, but these experiential moments are too few
The 19-year-old ballet dancer was recruited to choreograph a performance for the R&B duo at the 3 Days in Toronto festival
Actress Ellie Moon's Asking For It, a play inspired by the Jian Ghomeshi trial, offers insight into why women often stay silent in the wake of sexual violence
The Toronto festival wasn't at its strongest, but still delivered energy to an excited crowd
Tanztheater Wuppertal, Pina Bausch's famous and much celebrated dance troupe, will perform The Rite of Spring and Café Muller
The production, premiering at Luminato this week, is a representation of how the past disrupts the present
Michel's work is heavily autobiographical " the title refers to a towel she would put on her head as a child to become 'blond'
A popular misconception finds that dancers, like athletes, peak in their 20s. But as the National Ballet of Canada's most senior ballerinas prove, Martha Schabas writes, there are benefits t…
ENCOUNT3RS features newly commissioned ballets by the National Ballet of Canada, Ballet BC and Alberta Ballet
Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard crafts a dance/theatre piece based on Hieronymous Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights
