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Kimberly Glasco (born November 27, 1960, in Eugene, Oregon) is a Canadian ballerina.She danced with the National Ballet of Canada until she was dismissed by artistic director James Kudelka.
The institution became a national one in 1922 and changed its name to National Opera. A ballet company was established and gave its first performance in 1928. The opera ceased its activity for a while after the 1944 bombing of Sofia, but was restored shortly afterward with a significant increase of government funding.
English National Ballet is a classical ballet company founded by Dame Alicia Markova and Sir Anton Dolin as London Festival Ballet and based in London, England. Along with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet and Scottish Ballet, it is one of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain.
The National Ballet of Washington, D.C. was an American national ballet company founded in 1962 by Jean Riddell, granddaughter of the founder of PET Evaporated Milk and artistic director Frederic Franklin, with financial support from the Ford Foundation.
In 2018, he was promoted to principal dancer, the highest rank in the company, and joined English National Ballet, while keeping his position in Canada. [4] In 2020, ENB promoted him to lead principal dancer. [5] The National Ballet of Canada then announced Frola would dance with ENB full-time, but intend to return as a guest artist. [6]
Raymond Smith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and immigrated to Canada at the age of seven. [2] He began dancing lessons in London, [3] Ontario, at the age of 11, and entered Canada's National Ballet School [4] at the age of 12, in the eighth grade.
The roots of the Australian Ballet can be found in the Borovansky Ballet, a touring repertory company [1] founded in 1940 by the Czech dancer Edouard Borovansky.Borovansky had been a dancer in the touring ballet company of the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and, after visiting Australia on tour with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet, he decided to remain in Australia, establishing a ...
Veronica Tennant, CC FRSC (born January 15, 1946) is a Canadian producer, director, and filmmaker and a former principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada. [1] She was born in London, England and moved to Canada with her parents and sister in 1955.