ballet

(Photography by William Ukoh)

How Siphesihle November is shaking up ballet

November is bringing a South African flair to the National Ballet of Canada

Russia’s Bolshoi dance of history

Telling the story of Russia through one of the most famous ballets in the world

What it feels like to dance like National Ballet of Canada principal dancer Sonia Rodriguez

See what it’s like to lace up pointe shoes and pirouette like Canadian ballerina Sonia Rodriguez. The National Ballet of Canada principal dancer (and wife of skating legend Kurt Browning) takes you for a twirl.

Scandal at the ballet

From 2015:Former students of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School say a teacher persuaded them to pose for lurid photos

The two worlds of Svetlana Lunkina

From the archives: The Bolshoi ballerina, dancing this season with the National Ballet, explains what she’s doing with an unused return ticket to Moscow

Enough already with the ‘Rite of Spring’

Enough already with the ‘Rite of Spring’

Did one reportedly bloody night in Paris really change music forever?

The real dance revolution

Where hockey skills are an asset and tights aren’t required

Emma Teitel on the real dance revolution — in men’s ballet

Campus life at York University

A photographic tour of the main Toronto campus

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One nut-cracked ballerina

‘Black Swan’ plays like a deranged pas de deux between Hitchcock and Cronenberg

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The reign of Kain

Performing the most precarious dance of her career, Canada’s ballet queen taps Nureyev, Jagger, Chekhov—and Harper