How Siphesihle November is shaking up ballet
November is bringing a South African flair to the National Ballet of Canada
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National Ballet of Canada
Ballet is back and it’s lit
Among the National Ballet of Canada’s first productions this fall is Angels’ Atlas. Siphesihle November, principal dancer, walks us through a pinnacle moment in the award-winning production.
The prince we do not see
The National Ballet makes sense of a startlingly adult children’s fable
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.
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
Where hockey skills are an asset and tights aren’t required
Emma Teitel on the real dance revolution -- in men’s ballet
This week: Newsmakers
Prince Andrew’s friends in all the wrong places, Natalie Portman just can’t win, and adios, Glenn Beck?
The reign of Kain
Performing the most precarious dance of her career, Canada’s ballet queen taps Nureyev, Jagger, Chekhov—and Harper