National Ballet of Canada – Giselle – Toronto
★★★★✰ On opening night, Svetlana Lunkina in the title role gave one of those unique performances in which the ballerina completely disappears into her heroine, putting her entire living self into the role.
National Ballet of Canada – The Winter’s Tale – Washington
★★★★✰ Despite the monumental levels of snow in Washington nothing was going to stop Oksana Khadarina from seeing the National Ballet of Canada in Christopher Wheeldon’s “The Winter’s Tale”. And in two casts as well…
National Ballet of Canada – Giselle – Saratoga
Quibbling and Côté aside, these were both terrific performances, bursting with energy …I wouldn’t mind seeing the Canadians become regular visitors to Saratoga
National Ballet of Canada – Romeo and Juliet – London
The result is oddly old-fashioned – even more so than John Cranko’s version, which the Canadians had performed since 1964.
