By Rachel Silver Maddock In 1997, at the age of 42, Mary-Louise Albert had spent two decades dancing professionally and was ready to move on to the next stage of her life. As a final curtain call, the Vancouver dancer commissioned a series of solos from choreographers across Canada. Three of those solos will be
By Kaija Pepper When Marius Petipa landed in St. Petersburg in 1847 at age 29, he lied about his age, knocking off four years. Despite an unremarkable career in Europe, he had snagged a one-year contract as a dancer with the Russian Imperial Ballet — where he ended up working for over 50 years. The
By Veronica Posth Berlin had been dealing quite well with the COVID-19 pandemic — theatres that were closed during summer reopened in September, though with necessary restrictions regarding performances. Then, from the beginning of November, due to a quickly increasing number of infections, the lockdown started again, condemning theatres to close once more, for at