On the day we spoke Evelyn Hart, the legendary Canadian prima ballerina, was investigating the costumes in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's spacious 'closet'. She's working on a project for her students and she wanted some ideas. "I had to pick out colours. (Costumes) are my favourite thing.
Édith Piaf, the Little Sparrow, is one of the most famous singers of the 20th century. She is known for torch songs of love and loss including La vie en rose and Non, je ne regret riens. She died in 1963 but since then her life has
If you live in the country in an isolated location, the nights are long and dark and the silence can be eerily deafening. Things that go bump in the night can truly be terrifying, or at least unsettling because help is not close by. Iain Reid lives
As part of the opening of its new building, the Ottawa Art Gallery commissioned 11 new works all of which will be unveiled during this inaugural year. The latest will be unveiled on Sunday. It's called Ascension and it is a light installation by Ottawa's The Latest Artists
Most Canadians know the name Vimy and know something of the story of the First World War battle. We consider it a nation-making moment. But do we know the names Amiens, Arras, Canal du Nord, Cambrai and Mons? Likely not, unless you have been to the Canadian War Museum
There’s not much on the stage. Three bathtubs, a metal dress form and shower head hanging above each, a backdrop of panelled walls: That’s about it. Designed by Brian Smith, it’s an apt setting for The Drowning Girls, a ghost story about three British women who,
Last week, Ottawa got to see Akram Khan perform Xenos, billed as his last full-length solo. Although Khan still appears to be in his athletic prime, the 44-year-old dancer has been quoted as saying he feels like his body is starting to break down. LIke
There are three new exhibitions at the Ottawa Art Gallery, featuringMichèle Provost, Patrice Stanley and Michael Belmore. Here is a brief look at each: MICHÈLE PROVOST is a soft provocateur, in that her provocations are often woven into gentle fabrics, in methodical stitchings of satire, sarcasm
Wayne Grady's new novel, he says, is a conversation between his black side and his white side. Grady, a respected writer of non-fiction, has turned to fiction lately and his two novels, first Emancipation Day and now Up From Freedom, are very much explorations of a
Ottawa writer Natalie Morrill lived in Vienna, Austria, as a young girl. She remembers a large Jewish cemetery in the city that was surrounded by walls, littered with leaves and broken glass and protected by barbed wire. She did peek inside and wonder about this abandoned
