Greta Hodgkinson is a planner. She thinks ahead. She even started talking about stepping down from her role as a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada a few years before her target departure date. And yet this organized artist is stepping into some uncertainty
Guillaume Côté had this idea see. "For a long time I have wanted to do something that is narrative, something that is new and fiction," the principal dancer and associate choreographer of the National Ballet of Canada. "About two years I had this dinner with (the filmmaker and
The Ottawa cellist Raphael Weinroth-Browne is probably better known for many musical collaborations but now he's just about to release a solo album of new music called Worlds Within. ARTSFILE just had to find out why this album now. Q. Raphael, tell me why you wanted
Guillaume Ittukssarjuat Saladin has a suggestion for audiences attending the upcoming world premiere of Unikkaaqtuat (meaning to tell stories), an all-ages show which opens the second half of NAC Indigenous Theatre’s inaugural season. The cross-cultural production fuses circus, theatre, music and video, spotlights Inuit artists
There are words that are, at times, derogatory. But such is the power of language that you can take those words and turn them into badges of honour. In a way that's what Ryan Hotchkiss is doing with the word boondocks, as in the boonies, meaning
No one knows for sure the name or the story of the plump young woman at the National Gallery of Canada but for the first time in 67 years this summer she will be reunited with about 100 old friends from her former home in
How do you maim a perfectly good musical? Run the show through an abysmally tuned sound system in the NAC’s Southam Hall, one that, on opening night, cranked the volume but frequently made performers sound like they were singing into soup cans, distorting voices so
After 30 years and literally millions of visits by kids and families, the Children's Museum inside the Canadian Museum of History is about to get a complete makeover. The process of renewal is underway, but patrons will notice it for real next fall when the space
This is a pretty exciting time to lead Library and Archives Canada. The repository of the many treasures that make up this country's historical record is about to undergo a major makeover. There are two major building projects underway. There is the much publicized new joint facility,
The Broadway musical Waitress tells the story of a young woman named Jenna struggling to break free from an abusive marriage using her skills as a pie-maker to start a business, stand on her own two feet and raise her young daughter. The musical is now
