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L-R: Christian Sanders; Andriana Chuchman. Photo: Chia Messina; Suzanna Rigden. Photo: Brent Calis Photography

Newswire | Pacific Opera Victoria Presents Orpheus & Eurydice

By Newswire on 8 April 2026 Dance, Newswire, Opera, Vocal, West

Victoria, BC – Opening on April 22 at Victoria’s Royal Theatre, Pacific Opera Victoria, in partnership with Ballet Victoria, presents Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orpheus & Eurydice, a timeless retelling of one of mythology’s most haunting romances for four performances April 22, 24, and 28, at 7:30 pm, and April 26 at 2:30 pm. Based on the famous Greek myth of the musician Orpheus who conquers the spirits of hell using the power of music to bring his love back from the underworld, this production will take Victoria opera lovers into the world of French baroque music and dance. With music that is both ethereal and…

Newswire | Ballet Edmonton presents Soft Currents

By Newswire on 10 March 2026 Dance, Newswire, West

Edmonton, AB — This March, Ballet Edmonton transforms the Art Gallery of Alberta into a living choreography with Soft Currents, an immersive contemporary performance that moves through the gallery’s architectural spaces. Inspired by the shifting formations of starlings moving together in shared rhythm and direction, Soft Currents explores how a group listens, adapts, and moves with collective awareness, in real time. Created as a task-based work with original sound, the performance is built on a structured, collaboratively developed score for an ensemble of dancers. Each artist tunes into their own physical sensations while remaining deeply responsive to the group. The…

Maria Yakovleva & Gergő Ármin Balázsi in Hungarian State Ballet's Onegin. Photo: Valter Berecz / Hungarian State Opera

Review | Cranko’s Onegin Thrills at Hungarian State Ballet

By Gianmarco Segato on 6 March 2026 Concert Reviews, Dance, Scena Arts

John Cranko’s Onegin has played an important role in the recent history of the Hungarian State Ballet. Its current artistic director, Tamás Solymosi, danced the title role in the ballet’s 2002 company premiere. He has been key to keeping the work in its repertoire, including overseeing a new 2012 production by Thomas Mika. On March 3, Cranko’s masterpiece pulled all of its emotional punches in an extremely well-cast revival. While on the surface Cranko’s choreography draws almost entirely on traditional ballet vocabulary, its modernism stems from the manner in which each step and gesture are intrinsically married to character and…

RWB Company in T’əl: The Wild Man of the Woods (2024). Photo: Daniel Crump

Review | RWB Tours T’əl, an Indigenous Story by Indigenous Creators

By Kaija Pepper on 12 February 2026 Concert Reviews, Dance, Indigenous, Scena Arts, Vancouver, West

Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB) has commissioned three Indigenous story ballets over the decades, each one making, for its time, a newsworthy impact. 1971’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, choreographed by Norbert Vesak, was a hard-hitting depiction of racism, while 2014’s Going Home Star—Truth and Reconciliation, by Mark Godden, put the residential school scandal onstage. Then came 2024’s traditional Indigenous tale, T’əl: The Wild Man of the Woods, and, this time, an Indigenous choreographer: Cameron sinkʷə Fraser-Monroe, a member of the Tla’amin Nation of British Columbia’s northern Sunshine Coast. RWB recently presented T’əl (pronounced “tall”) on a seven-stop tour of BC—which I…

Mélanie Demers & Cabaret Noir Photo: Kevin Calixte

Mélanie Demers: The Art of Fleetingness

By Nathalie de Han on 2 February 2026 Dance, Literature

For multidisciplinary artist Mélanie Demers, anti-racism and feminism are basic principles; her creative work is a political gesture born of esthetic intuition. To better portray the notion of togetherness, for the past 10 years she has chosen inclusive casts, with a focus on women and artists from diverse backgrounds who were previously invisibilized. The choreographer and director now works with performers such as Stacey Désilier, Frannie Holder, Briana Lombardo, Chi Long, and Angélique Willkie. These heartfelt choices are in tune with what the audience wants to see and hear, and audience members appreciate such femininity on stage. Castings are not…

Tafelmusik: Restoring Dance to Rameau

By Holly Harris on 2 February 2026 Arts Industry, Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Dance, Orchestral, Theatre, Toronto

Tafelmusik puts on its party shoes when it presents Rameau and the Art of Dance this month (February). Internationally-acclaimed baroque violinist Robert Mealy, artistic director of The Juilliard School’s historical performance program, leads a program of French baroque suites spotlighting Rameau’s magnificent operas. The Berkeley, Calif.-born performer and teacher is director of the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, principal concertmaster for Trinity Wall Street’s baroque orchestra, as well as co-director of the chamber group Quicksilver. For its Rameau program, Tafelmusik musicians will be joined by 15 string and wind players from Juilliard415, the school’s principal period-instrument ensemble founded in 2009.…

Andrew Wells-Oberegger. Photo: Alex BG

La Nef: Folkdance, Ancient Style

By Nathalie de Han on 2 February 2026 Dance, Folk, Montreal, World Music

Returning from a master class in Austria, Andrew Wells-Oberegger proposed the idea of a program of balfolk—Aufregend! Exaltant!—to Claire Gignac, artistic director of La Nef. It is inspired by traditional dances and music from Austria, France and Sweden that date back to the 18th and 19th centuries. Wells-Oberegger’s Déjouer le glas was nominated for concert of the year at the 29th Opus Awards Gala. For his La Nef show, he draws on the form and rhythm of period tunes, adding in contemporary accents to render them timeless. From his Austrian travels, Wells-Oberegger brought back a bock—or Bohemian bagpipe—and it is…

Andrii Maslov in Paradisum. Photo: Balint Hirling

Review | A Poetic Night at the Circus: Recirquel’s Paradisum

By Kaija Pepper on 27 January 2026 Circus, Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Dance, Vancouver, West

Paradisum is an unusual theatrical experience—a dark and brooding new circus show grounded in contemporary dance, with enough high-flying acts of derring-do to arouse the audience to frequent applause. That at least was the case in Vancouver when Hungary’s Recirquel premiered Bence Vági’s Paradisum in North America as part of the DanceHouse season, presented in partnership with the Cultch. Key to this brooding and also beautiful work is the mysteriously threatening setting—mountains and towers rise imposingly, then collapse and reform, or melt into thin air and reappear in new configurations. Once I became aware of the simplicity of the stagecraft,…

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Newswire | Order of Canada Appointees in the Arts – December 31, 2025

By Newswire on 14 January 2026 Classical Music, Dance, Film, Literature, Montreal, Multimedia, Newswire, Ottawa, Philanthropy, Quebec City, Theatre, Toronto, Visual Arts, West

OTTAWA, Ontario—Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, has made 80 new appointments to the Order of Canada, including 6 Companions, 15 Officers and 59 Members. Six appointments are promotions within the Order, and another represents an honorary appointment. The Order of Canada is the cornerstone of the Canadian Honours System. Since its creation in 1967, more than 8250 people from all sectors of society have been appointed to the Order. The contributions of these trailblazers are varied, yet they have all enriched the lives of others and made a difference to this country. “The Order of…

Newswire | Ballet Edmonton Presents THRESHOLD

By Newswire on 13 January 2026 Dance, Newswire, West

EDMONTON, AB — Ballet Edmonton, the city’s creation-based contemporary ballet company invites audiences into a daring evening of movement and sonic imagination with THRESHOLD, running Friday, February 13 to Sunday, February 15, 2026 at the Triffo Theatre in Allard Hall, MacEwan University. THRESHOLD showcases two extraordinary international choreographers building new work on a Canadian company for the first time: Cyril Baldy and Marie Gyselbrecht. Each piece challenges both dancers and audiences, expanding definitions of physicality, presence, and what contemporary ballet and dance can be. Baldy and Gyselbrecht’s creations explore unexpected limits of the body, new textures of movement, and fresh…