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Vancouver’s Goh Ballet Academy proposes student housing tower in Mount Pleasant
The Goh Ballet Academy in Vancouver is looking at redeveloping its property to include a 25-storey building for student housing near the future Mount Pleasant SkyTrain station. Artistic and general director of Goh Ballet Canada Chan Hon...
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Winter International Arts Festival in Sochi 2019
The Russian city of Sochi celebrates culture in all its forms during its Winter Arts Festival . This year, as always, there was music, theatre, opera and dance. Many of the event's performances are collaborations between Russian and...
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Watch: Cuban ballet dancers return to island after exile
Cuban ballet dancer Daniel Sarabia was banned from re-entering his country but has returned after 15 years. Sarabia and four other defectors went back to perform in Havana for the International Ballet Festival this year. "Imagine, what...
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Ballet and Indigenous dancers come together to honour missing and murdered women and girls
The Red Shawl Campaign and Atlantic Ballet have joined to put on a new adaptation of a ballet that honours missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
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Canada's ballet gets high-tech makeover
CBC News got a behind-the-scenes look at how organizers plan to balance the classic art form with visual innovation.
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New York Ballet combines with Paris and Bolshoi to celebrate “Jewels”
Three international ballet companies, the New York City Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet, will all come together on the Lincoln Center stage in New York to celebrate the 50th anniversary of “Jewels”. The ballet is by...
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Contemporary dance at the Sochi Winter International Arts Festival
The Olympic city of Sochi is staging The Winter International Arts Festival. It has become one of the cultural highlights of the Russian Black Sea resort. It is the festival’s 10th anniversary and traditionally one day of the event is...
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'Onegin', National Ballet of Canada
Xiao Nan Yu dances the role of Tatiana in the National Ballet of Canada's 'Onegin'.
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Plans for Canada's 150th birthday
CBC's Deana Sumanac-Johnson gives you a taste of what's in the works across the country
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Up and Down – an Eifman ballet in London based on an F.Scott Fitzgerald novel
Russian choreographer Boris Eifman has taken up the challenge of using the plot of a complex psychological novel for a ballet. “Up and Down” is based on a novel by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald in which personal tragedies are...
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Fighting poverty and gang violence in Rio's favelas with ballet
Amid ongoing drug gang wars in Rio's favelas, one woman is giving hope to the children of Complexo do Alemao.
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The bad boy of ballet Sergei Polunin stars in ‘Dancer’ a documentary
At the age of 19 Sergei Polunin became the dance world’s brightest star. He was appointed principal dancer at the Royal Ballet. Then two years later he stunned everyone when he abruptly walked away from the prestigous role. At 25, at the...
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Cuba puts its best foot forward for world ballet festival
Seven U.S. companies, including the prestigious Martha Graham Dance Company, are in the Cuban capital for the 25th Havana International Ballet Festival. The gathering is the brainchild of 96 year-old former prima ballerina and Cuban...
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Lettuce and livestock perform arabesques down on the farm
There is moonlight in Vermont and there is classical ballet down on the farm in Vermont. A troupe of dancers are in amongst the cows and pigs getting their tutus dirty to take ballet out of the auditorium and into the open air. Have you...
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South Korean soldiers swap their military boots for ballet shoes
After a heavy day patrolling the Demilitarised Zone that divides the Korean peninsula, South Korean soldiers swap their military boots for a pair of ballet shoes. The two Koreas are in a technical state of war under a truce after the...
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South Korean soldiers swap military boots for ballet shoes
Soldiers near the Demilitarized Zone take dance classes to ease stress
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South Korean soldiers swap their military boots for ballet shoes
After a heavy day patrolling the Demilitarised Zone that divides the Korean peninsula, South Korean soldiers swap their military boots for a pair of ballet shoes. The two Koreas are in a technical state of war under a truce after the...
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Le Petit Prince behind the scenes
A ballet based on the classic French book The Little Prince takes the stage in Toronto this weekend. It's the first time in a decade the National Ballet has had a Canadian choreograph a new, full length production.
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Acosta returns to Cuban roots with a classic contemporary dance mix
Afer retiring from the Royal Ballet of London last November international ballet star “Carlos Acosta”: http://www.carlosacosta.com/ returns to his Cuban roots with his new dance company ‘Acosta Danza.’ The 42-year-old dancer is now back...
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The Nutcracker with a modern twist by the Royal Ballet of Flanders
The Nutcracker has returned to the Royal Ballet of Flanders after an absence of 16-years, but with a modern twist. Argentinean Demis Volpi is the choreographer. The show has been stripped away from its typically imperial and grand family...
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Hudson River Museum hosts ballet performances to celebrate start of Women's History Month
The all female-led MorDance dance company presented its performance called "Humanism" at the museum.
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Be Well: Misty Copeland Talks Hollywood, Launching Clothing 'Greatness Wins' Clothing Line
Misty Copeland on transition careers and Greatness Wins clothing line.
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Meet Nobuhiro Terada: the Ukrainian National Ballet's new artistic director
The National Ukrainian Ballet appointed its first Japanese artistic director last month, before embarking on a tour of Japan
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Ballerina Olga Smirnova quits Bolshoi ballet over Ukraine war
A well-known Russian ballerina is starting a new life in the Netherlands because of the war in Ukraine.