Yesterday, a young ballerina by the name of Ludmilla Chiriaeff, the daughter of Russian immigrants, left Berlin and settled in Montreal to fulfill her dream: to teach and share her love for dance. In 1957, she who we called Madame Chiriaeff, created Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the very first professional ballet company in Quebec.Today, the …
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater grew from a now-fabled performance in March 1958 at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Led by Alvin Ailey and a group of young African-American modern dancers, that performance changed forever the perception of American dance. The Ailey company has gone on to …
MY FAIR LADY – The Musical This musical is the standard by which all others are measured. Based on Shaw’s play and Pascal’s move “Pygmalion”, with book, music and lyrics by Lerner and Loewer, MY FAIR LADY is triumphant. With “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?”, “With a Little Bit of Luck”, “The Rain in Spin”, “I …
STARS OF THE WEST END Featuring songs from The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Chess, Chicago, Evita, Miss Saigon, My Fair Lady, West Side Story and tributes to Rodgers and Hammerstein and Cole Porter, this whistle-stop tour of the West End and Broadway is performed by internationally-renowned stars of musical theatre Mike Sterling, Shona …
María Pagés If there is something that defines María Pagés’ multi-facetted creativity, it is her deeply rooted sense of the ethics of culture. She creates because she is convinced that Art – in its essence and the emotion that produces it – is a deep commitment to life and memory, in an organic sense.Modernity, for …
Dance Music Theatre Tan Yuanyuan and her friends – Magical Night at the Art Museum 2 Dance Music Theatre – <Tan Yuanyuan and her friends – Magical Night at the Art Museum 2> will kick off a two-month tour from 4th June. The show, which is under the artistic direction of renowned international ballet artist …
Beijing Modern Dance Company The Beijing Modern Dance Company (BMDC) is a leading professional modern dance company in China. The Company regularly performs throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South America, and at art festivals such as the Berlin Art Festival, la Biennale di Venezia, the International Performance Festival in Bologna, Italy, the Bahia Festival …
Josef Spacek in Recital / Concerto Czech violinist Josef Špaček has gradually established himself as one of the most accomplished violinists of his generation. He studied with Ida Kavafian, Jaime Laredo, Itzhak Perlman and Jaroslav Foltýn. He won top prizes at the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition, International Queen Elisabeth …
Szymon Nehring in Recital Szymon Nehring is one of the most gifted and promising pianists of the younger generation in Poland. He is the only Pole to win the First Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, one of the most important piano competitions in the world.In autumn 2017 he …
Yu-Chien (Benny) Tseng in recital Taiwanese violinist Yu-Chien (Benny) Tseng is rapidly building an international reputation as an emerging young soloist of enormous promise praised for his “grace, poise, and blistering virtuosity.”Following his recent German debut with the Saarbrucken Radio Orchestra, the critic warmly praised his performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto: “Classically balanced without …
