House Programme - MADDADDAM

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The National Ballet of Canada is grateful to have the opportunity to work, dance and create on these lands and we thank the past, present and future caretakers of this land for their stewardship. The land we are performing on today has been home to dance and storytelling traditions of Indigenous people since time immemorial. We recognize that colonialism and intergenerational trauma has silenced Indigenous artists for far too long. With this in mind, we encourage you to experience and support the work of the many extraordinary Indigenous dance artists working in Canada today. The National Ballet of Canada recently had the opportunity to collaborate with:

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WELCOME TO MADDADDAM

Thank you for joining us on this exciting occasion, as The National Ballet of Canada presents the world premiere of Wayne McGregor’s MADDADDAM, his visionary rendering of Margaret Atwood’s acclaimed novel trilogy. The production has been many years in the making and we are elated to finally bring this ground-breaking work to the stage.

New creations bring a unique energy and sense of shared purpose to the company, and MADDADDAM is no exception. Wayne is such an inspiring choreographer and his curiosity and instinct for collaboration is unrivaled. He has assembled a creative team of exceptional talent and imagination, including his frequent collaborator Max Richter, who has composed a breathtaking original score.

MADDADDAM is the first of the National Ballet’s co-productions with The Royal Ballet to be created in Canada with a Toronto premiere, a testament to our continuing relationship with Wayne following the acquisition of his one-act works Chroma and Genus and also to Margaret Atwood’s iconic status as a Canadian writer.

I can’t wait for you to experience Wayne’s interpretation of the visceral world of Atwood’s novels. Welcome to MADDADDAM!

Sincerely,

Hope Muir

Joan and Jerry Lozinski Artistic Director

Hope Muir. Photo by Karolina Kuras. Cover: Ravi Deepres / We Not I

THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA

Hope Muir Joan and Jerry Lozinski

David Briskin

Artistic Director

Music Director and Principal Conductor

Peter Ottmann Senior Répétiteur

Xiao Nan Yu Rehearsal Director, Principal Coach

Robert Binet

Curator and Producer, CreativAction and Special Initiatives

Celia Franca, C.C., Founder Karen Kain, C.C., Artistic Director Emerita

Barry Hughson Executive Director

Rex Harrington, O.C. Rehearsal Director, Principal Coach

Stephanie Hutchison Assistant Rehearsal Director

Greta Hodgkinson, O.Ont. Artist-in-Residence

Maria Seletskaja

Conductor-in-Residence†bir

George Crum, Music Director Emeritus

Guillaume Côté, Jurgita Dronina, Naoya Ebe, Koto Ishihara, Harrison James, Svetlana Lunkina, Siphesihle November, Heather Ogden, Genevieve Penn Nabity, Tina Pereira, Ben Rudisin, Piotr Stanczyk

Stephanie Hutchison, Alejandra Perez-Gomez, Rebekah Rimsay

Jack Bertinshaw, Jordana Daumec, Christopher Gerty, Spencer Hack, Jeannine Haller, Tanya Howard, Alexandra MacDonald, Chelsy Meiss, Jenna Savella, Calley Skalnik, Donald Thom

Brenna Flaherty, Hannah Galway, Selene Guerrero-Trujillo, Kathryn Hosier, Miyoko Koyasu, Tirion Law, Noah Parets, Kota Sato

Ross Allen, Isabelle Bratt, Trygve Cumpston, Emerson Dayton, Shaelynn Estrada, Jason Ferro, Nina Gentes, Albjon Gjorllaku, Monika Haczkiewicz, Josh Hall, Ayano Haneishi, Peng-Fei Jiang, Sophie Lee, Keaton Leier, Scott McKenzie, Larkin Miller, Arielle Miralles, Emma Ouellet, Clare Peterson, McKhayla Pettingill, David Preciado, Teagan Richman-Taylor, Alexander Skinner, Arianna Soleti, Konstantin Tkachuk, Tene Ward, Chrisopher Waters, Isaac Wright

Robert Binet Guillaume Côté Choreographic Associates

Joysanne Sidimus Guest Balanchine Répétiteur

Jeff Morris

Liliane Stilwell Stage Managers

Troy Taylor Assistant Stage Manager

RBC Apprentice Programme: Gabriel Buell, Ethan Clarisey, Connor Hamilton, Isabella Kinch, Hamish Lowe, Lindy Mesmer, Jordan Micallef, Keira Sanford, Pravda Tranfield, Yi-Min Tsung, Taïs Vinolo, Oliver Yonick † The Conductor-in-Residence position is supported by Noreen Taylor, C.M. & David Staines, C.M., O.Ont.

Edward Connell Andrei Streliaev Zsanna Vaszilenko

Zhenya Vitort Pianists

Magdalena Popa Artistic Advisor

ORCHESTRA

Violin 1

Aaron Schwebel, Concertmaster

Lynn Kuo, Assistant Concertmaster Jennie Baccante Xiao Grabke Nancy Kershaw

Sonia Klimasko-Leheniuk Dominique Laplante Yakov Lerner Wendy Rogers Paul Zevenhuizen

Violin 2

Jamie Kruspe, Acting Principal 2nd Violin Csaba Koczó, Acting Assistant Principal 2nd Violin James Aylesworth Jayne Maddison Aya Miyagawa Patrick Goodwin+ Sheldon Grabke Joanna Zabrowarna

Violas

Shelia Jaffé, Principal Joshua Greenlaw, Assistant Principal Carolyn Blackwell+ Valerie Kuinka

Basses

Tony Flynt+, Acting Principal Robert Speer, Acting Assistant Principal Jonathan Yeoh*, Assistant Principal Travis Harrison+ Robert Wolanski+

Flutes

Leslie J. Allt†, Principal Shelley Brown, Piccolo Maria Pelletier

Oboes

Mark Rogers, Principal Karen Rotenberg Lesley Young, English Horn

Clarinets

Max Christie, Principal Gary Kidd, Contra Bass Clarinet Emily Marlow, Bass Clarinet Bassoons

Chia-Yu Hsu, Principal Samuel Fraser+, Contra-Bassoon Elizabeth Gowen*, Contra-Bassoon

Horns

Trombones

David Pell, Acting Principal Charles Benaroya*, Principal David Archer Cathy Stone+, Bass Trombone

Tuba Sasha Johnson, Principal Harp

Lucie Parent*, Principal Lori Gemmell+, Acting Principal

Tympani

Andrew Rasmus, Acting Principal

Percussion Kristofer Maddigan, Principal Mark Mazur Andrew Rasmus Chung Ling Lo+

Piano/Celeste Andrei Streliaev

Midi Keyboard Edward Connell

Johann Lotter Angela Rudden

Cellos

Maurizio Baccante, Principal Marianne Pack, Assistant Principal Olga Laktionova Elaine Thompson Andrew McIntosh Paul Widner

Jessie Brooks, Principal Christine Passmore+ Gary Pattison Scott Wevers

Trumpets

Richard Sandals, Principal Mark Dharmaratnam Robert Weymouth*

Music Librarian Jacques Forest Orchestra Personnel Manager and Music Administrator Raymond Tizzard * On Leave + Additional Musician

† The Principal Flute position is endowed by The Herridge Family Fund.

David Briskin, Music Director and Principal Conductor

World Premiere

MADDADDAM

Inspired by Margaret At wood’s MaddAddam Trilogy #MADDADDAMNBC

Choreographer: Wayne McGregor, CBE

Original Music: Max Richter*

Creative Consultant: Margaret Atwood Design: We Not I

Costume Design: Gareth Pugh

Lighting Design: Lucy Carter Film Design: Ravi Deepres

Dramaturg: Uzma Hameed

Sound Engineer: Chris Ekers

Assistant to the Choreographer: Jenny Tattersall

Choreologist: Natasha Frid Finlay with Rosslyn King

Répétiteurs: Stephanie Hutchison and Xiao Nan Yu

Music Team

Copyist: Dave Foster

Sample Programming: Rob Ashbridge

Mix Engineer: Tom Bailey

Assistant Engineer: Alice Bennet

Text Readings: Tilda Swinton and Josh Davidson Special thanks: Tif Loehnis

Film Design Creative Team

Film Design Associate and Lidar: Luke Unsworth

Video Programmer: Edward Freeman Animation Specialist: Steven Spencer

Film Producer: Pip Piper

Assistant Production and Art Direction: Evy Dutheil

Assistant Producer Toronto/Montréal: Lucy Cameron

Camera Assistant: Nigel Tang

Toronto Location Scout: Vanessa Shah

Special thanks: Ryerson Urban Farm, Churchill Science Research Centre, Growing Underground, Discover Churchill, CN Tower, Montréal Biosphere and Habitat, Union Station, The Westin Harbourfront and The Fairmont Royal York

* © 2022 Decca Publishing, a division of Universal Music Publishing Group

World Premiere: The National Ballet of Canada, Toronto, November 23, 2022

Co-produced and commissioned by The National Ballet of Canada and The Royal Ballet (U.K.).

Content Warning:

As an interpretation of the dystopian world created by Margaret Atwood in her MaddAddam trilogy, the ballet MADDADDAM contains similar mature themes. This includes depictions of violence and sexual violence that may be upsetting for some audience members. Not recommended for children under 13.

Lead philanthropic support for MADDADDAM is provided by The Walter Carsen New Creations Fund, Tony Arrell, C.M. & Anne Arrell, Rosamond Ivey, The Gail Hutchison Fund, Tim & Frances Price, Gretchen Ross & Donald Ross, O.C. and The Producers’ Circle.

The commissioned score for MADDADDAM has been generously underwritten by Noreen Taylor, C.M. & David Staines, C.M., O.Ont.

The Producers’ Circle: Gail & Mark Appel, John & Claudine Bailey, Inger Bartlett & Marshal Stearns, Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney, Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance, Ira Gluskin & Maxine Granovsky Gluskin, The William & Nona Heaslip Foundation, Anna McCowan-Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C., Judy Korthals & Peter Irwin, Mona & Harvey Levenstein, Jerry & Joan Lozinski, The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C., Julie Medland, Sandra Pitblado, C.M. & Jim Pitblado, C.M., The Harry & Lillian Seymour Family Foundation and The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation.

RUNNING TIME

Act I Castaway 30 minutes

Intermission 25 minutes

Act II Extinctathon 30 minutes

Intermission 20 minutes Act III Dawn 35 minutes

The performance will run approximately 2 hours 20 minutes.

The National Ballet of Canada gratefully acknowledges the support of the following:

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage via the Endowment Incentives component of the Canada Cultural Investment Fund.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remaercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.

The Government of Ontario through the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries.

Produced with the support of the City of Toronto through Toronto Arts Council

The National Ballet of Canada operates under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. The National Ballet of Canada is a member of the Canadian Dance Assembly and Dance/USA.

The Volunteer Committee, The National Ballet of Canada

THE STORIES WE CHOOSE

By Uzma Hameed Dramaturg, MADDADDAM

It is not difficult to understand why the last decade has seen even greater interest in Margaret Atwood’s work. Despite the fact that Atwood has been one of Canada’s bestknown authors for the better part of 60 years, it seems that, today, the societies depicted in her dystopias in particular, are closer than ever to reality; her environmental, feminist and political critiques increasingly relevant; her speculative fictions becoming fact with alarming frequency.

Writing this piece at a time when global energy giants are posting record-breaking profits, it is hard to argue that the society portrayed in the MaddAddam trilogy is any other than our own. In the world of the book, government and the rule of law have given way to technocratic corporations (with names distinctly reminiscent of big pharma) who hold sway over a public driven by an insatiable need to live longer, look better, feel younger and consume more. Exploitation and abuse, whether of nature or people, are endemic to a culture informed by principles of domination and possession. And, in a particularly chilling example of Atwoodian prescience, given our collective experience of recent times, the story tells how humanity falls victim to a deadly global pandemic.

In the case of the trilogy though, the plague is an almost total wipe-out, from a virus which has been deliberately bio-engineered by hubristic genius Crake – as a solution to the problem of homo sapiens sapiens seemingly bent on destroying both itself and the planet. Into his recreated Eden, Crake intends to seed a new race of hominids who are neither violent, competitive nor aggressive. Furthermore, since the Crakers, as they come to be known, have been genetically engineered to no longer require clothes or shelter, or consume meat, they exist in harmony and balance with nature.

In approaching a stage interpretation of the MaddAddam trilogy, choreographer Wayne McGregor and his creative team were struck by its preoccupation with the purpose of storytelling itself, which is explored in the novels in many ways – as testimony, a means to understanding, a process of healing, and as the imaginative act through which we create and infer meaning. Atwood layers stories and testimonies from multiple narrators across multiple locations and in multiple forms: internal monologue, sermon, diary, pillow-talk, age-old around-a-campfire oral narration and ultimately, nascent written scripture.

Heather Ogden in rehearsal for MADDADDAM. Photo by Karolina Kuras. Opposite: Margaret Atwood and Wayne McGregor. Photo by Christopher Wahl.

In so doing, the author invites us to consider who is telling the story, and to what end – and, by implication, where are we in the enterprise? As she writes in MaddAddam: “There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told. Then there’s what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.”

This question of what story we want to tell, and how is, of course, central to the task of transforming any literary work into dance – and not just because of the practical constraints of distilling a work of much larger scope into a performance of ninety minutes. More importantly, the process requires us to consider how dance’s poetic and allusive visual language – the mysterious ways in which the moving body engenders meaning – can, together with music and staging, recreate a sense of the world of the novels and of the effect of reading them, that goes beyond adaptation or replication. While watching dance is, like reading, an immersive experience, it is also different in the way that it activates the senses, and the pathways through which we comprehend it.

We were also interested in the ways in which Atwood constructs and manipulates time in the novels. Book 1 Oryx and Crake and Book 2 The Year of the Flood span an identical time period but as experienced from different points of view: firstly that of Jimmy, followed, in the second novel by those of Toby and Ren.

Act 1 of McGregor’s ballet, entitled Castaway, takes up this idea of unity of time with separation of perspective, but in this case, by focusing on the key characters from both novels in the immediate aftermath of the plague – leaning into the potential afforded by live performance for different bodies and geographies to coexist within the same physical space.

In the second act, Extinctathon, the lens zooms out, offering a snapshot of the pre-cataclysmic, dystopian society depicted across all three novels, and the themes that characterise it.

Act 2 also engages with the way that aspects of Atwood’s dystopias powerfully resonate with our experience of our own world. This sense of reality and fiction merging and colliding is, of course, linked to the author’s activism and how the latter is performed alongside, in dialogue with, and within her novels. In the trilogy, no matter how beguiling the moment being narrated, we, the readers, are never allowed the illusion that we are situated cosily on the other side of a make-believe world. Rather, the sensation is of a hall of mirrors, or a roller-coaster ride through a larger-than-life version of our own reality.

Where Act 1 revolves around immediate time, and Act 2 around the deeper past of his/herstory, Act 3 entitled Dawn, suggests a future – in effect picking up where the third book ends. Is it fanciful to sound a note of hope here? Perhaps not. As Atwood herself sometimes remarks in response to interview questions about whether, for us and our planet, certain doom awaits: it hasn’t happened yet. There’s still time.

In rehearsal for MADDADDAM. This page: Wayne McGregor. Photo by Christopher Wahl. Opposite, clockwise from top: Artists of the Ballet. Alexander Skinner. Siphesihle November and Koto Ishihara. Photos by Karolina Kuras.

“In the beginning, there was chaos… In the chaos, everything was mixed together… The people in the chaos were full of chaos themselves, and the chaos made them do bad things. They were killing other people all the time. And they were eating up all the Children of Oryx, against the wishes of Oryx and Crake. Every day they were eating them up. They were killing them and killing them, and eating them and eating them. They ate them even when they weren’t hungry…

And Oryx had only one desire – she wanted the people to be happy, and to be at peace, and to stop eating up her children. But the people couldn’t be happy, because of the chaos. And then Oryx said to Crake, Let us get rid of the chaos. And so Crake took the chaos, and he poured it away… And this is how Crake did the Great Rearrangement and made the Great Emptiness.”

Extracted from Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood © O.W. Toad 2003, published in Canada by Vintage Canada.

“But that was only part of the work of Crake. The other part was when he made you. He made your bones out of the coral on the beach, which is white like bones but not smelly. And he made your flesh out of a mango, which is sweet and soft. He did all this inside the giant Egg, and he had some helpers there. And Snowman-theJimmy was his friend – he was inside the Egg as well.

And Oryx was there too. Sometimes, she was in the form of a woman with green eyes like yours, and sometimes she was in the form of an owl. And she laid two smaller owl eggs, inside the giant Egg. One smaller owl egg was full of animals and birds and fish – all her Children…

The other egg she laid was full of words. But that egg hatched first, before the one with the animals in it, and you ate up many of the words, because you were hungry; which is why you have words inside you. And Crake thought that you had eaten all the words, so there were none left over for the animals, and that was why they could not speak. But he was wrong about that. Crake was not always right about everything…

Then Oryx made a new kind of thing, called singing. And she gave it to you because she loved birds and she wanted you to be able to sing that way as well…

And Oryx said, ‘You will just have to suck it up. Because if these people cannot sing, they will be like… nothing. They will be like stones.’”

Extracted from MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood © O.W. Toad 2013, published in Canada by Vintage Canada.

Opposite: Tene Ward and Jason Ferro in rehearsal for MADDADDAM. Photo by Karolina Kuras.

“What do we want? Here’s a partial list. We want the purse that will always be filled with gold. We want the Fountain of Youth. We want to fly. We want the table that will cover itself with delicious food whenever we say the word, and that will clean up afterwards. We want invisible servants we’ll never have to pay. We want the seven-league boots so we can get places very quickly. We want the Cloak of Invisibility so we can snoop on other people without being seen. We want the weapon that will never miss, and that will destroy our enemies utterly. We want to punish injustice. We want power. We want excitement and adventure; we want safety and security. We want to be immortal. We want to have a large number of sexually attractive partners. We want those we love to love us in return, and to be loyal to us. We want cute, smart children who will treat us with the respect we deserve, and who will not smash up the car. We want to be surrounded by music, and by ravishing scents and attractive visual objects. We don’t want to be too hot. We don’t want to be too cold. We want to dance. We want to drink a lot without having a hangover. We want to speak with the animals. We want to be envied. We want to be as gods.”

Extracted from Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood © O.W. Toad 2022, published in Canada by McClelland and Stewart.

“Toby cannot tell the story tonight. She is too sad, because of the dead ones. The ones who became dead, in the battle. So now I will try to tell this story to you. I will tell it in the right way, if I can…

The Pig Ones chased the bad men. They chased them through the hallways, and they chased them into the centre of the Egg, where there were many dead trees. Not as when we were made there: then, there were trees with many leaves, and beautiful water, and it rained, and the stars were shining in the sky. But now there were no stars, only a ceiling…

And we all went outside the Egg, which had smoke coming out, and then flames. And we walked very fast away from it. And there were some loud noises from inside…

We slept there that night, and ate. And all who had been in the battle were very tired. They talked in low voices, and looked very carefully at the dead one Adam, and said he was not dead because of the chaos-clearing seed that Crake made but because of the holes with blood coming out…

And they wrapped the man Adam in a pink bedsheet, with a pink pillow under his head, and they were very quiet and sad…

And they carried Snowman-the-Jimmy in the same way, though he was not dead…

But Snowman-the-Jimmy was travelling in his head, far, far away, as he had travelled before, when he was in the hammock and we purred. But this time he went so far away that he could not come back.

And Oryx was there with him, and she was helping him. I heard him talking to her, just before he went too far, out of sight, and stopped breathing. And now he is with Oryx. And with Crake too. That is the Story of the Battle. Now we can sing.”

Extracted from MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood © O.W. Toad 2013, published in Canada by Vintage Canada.

Opposite: Calley Skalnik and Kota Sato in rehearsal for MADDADDAM. Photo by Karolina Kuras.

SELECTED BIOGRAPHIES

Hope Muir Joan and Jerry Lozinski Artistic Director

Hope Muir is an acclaimed dancer, teacher and director whose 33-year career spans two continents and a range of classical and contemporary styles. Born in Toronto, she is one of the first graduates of Peter Schaufuss’ London Festival Ballet School and a former dancer at English National Ballet, Rambert Dance Company and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. In 2009, Hope assisted Crystal Pite with the creation of Emergence for The National Ballet of Canada and has since helped to stage the work internationally. She has assisted numerous choreographers in this capacity, staging work by Christopher Bruce, Javier De Frutos and Helen Pickett, among others. Hope is the former Assistant Artistic Director of Scottish Ballet and in 2017, she was appointed Artistic Director of Charlotte Ballet in North Carolina, where she expanded the repertoire and established the highly successful Choreographic Lab. She assumed the role of Joan and Jerry Lozinski Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada on January 1, 2022.

Barry Hughson Executive Director

Barry Hughson joined The National Ballet of Canada in 2014. Since that time, the company has accelerated its trajectory of artistic growth, fiscal responsibility, community engagement and international acclaim. In 1988, Barry began his professional career as a dancer with The Washington Ballet, performing at the Kennedy Center and internationally. As an arts executive, he has led a variety of arts institutions in the US, including The Warner Theatre, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, American Repertory Ballet, Atlanta Ballet and Boston Ballet. For nine years, he served on the board of Dance/USA, North America’s largest service organization for professional dance. In partnership with Dance/USA and The Royal Ballet, Barry spearheaded the first meeting of international executive dance leadership in 2015. In Canada, Barry was a member of the Coordinating Committee for Respectful Workplaces in the Arts, where he chaired the working group responsible for the development of a nationwide Code of Conduct for the Live Performing Arts. He currently serves as a member of the Steering Committee for the Canadian Arts Coalition and as a member of the Advancement Committee for the International Society of Performing Arts.

Briskin Music Director and Principal Conductor

David Briskin is recognized as one of contemporary ballet’s most accomplished conductors. Prior to moving to Canada, David lived and worked for 23 years as a conductor in New York City in opera, ballet and in concert. He conducted for seven years with American Ballet Theatre and was a seasonal conductor for New York City Ballet. He served for 13 years as conductor for The Julliard School's Dance Division and has appeared with nearly all the major North American ballet companies. Internationally, he has appeared with The Royal Ballet, The Royal Swedish Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet and Hamburg Ballet. He served as Music Director for the Nureyev Legend and Legacy Gala in London which can be seen on Marquee TV. Engagements this season include Het Nationale Ballet and a production of A Little Night Music at Koerner Hall. David has appeared with orchestras and opera companies in North America and abroad including the Pittsburgh, Detroit, Baltimore, Cincinnati Pops, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Windsor and Shanghai Symphony Orchestras, as well as Calgary, Manitoba, Sarasota, Lake George Opera and Opera Carolina, among others.

David

Wayne McGregor Choreographer

Wayne McGregor CBE is a multi-award winning British choreographer and director, internationally renowned for trailblazing innovations in performance that have radically redefined dance in the modern era. Wayne’s multi-dimensional works resulting from interactions with an array of artistic forms, scientific disciplines and technological interventions have ensured his position at the cutting edge of contemporary arts for almost three decades. He is Artistic Director of Studio Wayne McGregor, encompassing creative collaborations in dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science; learning and research programmes; and a touring company of dancers Company Wayne McGregor, the first resident company at Sadler’s Wells which celebrates its 30-year anniversary in 2023. Wayne is also Resident Choreographer at The Royal Ballet, Director of Dance for the Venice Biennale, and is regularly commissioned by and has works in the repertories of the most important ballet companies around the world including Paris Opéra Ballet, New York City Ballet and The Bolshoi Ballet. He is also in demand as a choreographer for theatre, opera, film and music videos. Wayne choreographed the highly anticipated ABBA Voyage concert which premiered in London in May 2022. In 2011, Wayne was awarded a CBE for Services to Dance.

Max Richter Composer

Max Richter stands as one of the most prodigious figures on the contemporary music scene, with a catalogue that boasts over three billion streams. Memoryhouse, Max’s 2002 debut, has been described by The Independent and Pitchfork Magazine as a “landmark”, while his 2004 album The Blue Notebooks was chosen by The Guardian as one of the best Classical works of the century. SLEEP, his eight-and-a-half-hour concert work, has been performed worldwide, including at the Sydney Opera House, Berlin’s Kraftwerk, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Philharmonie de Paris and at the Barbican, London. Max’s music has become a mainstay for many of the world’s leading ballet companies, including The Mariinsky Ballet, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, New York City Ballet, Paris Opéra Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Max has a longstanding relationship with Wayne McGregor. The two have worked together on numerous projects including 2015’s Woolf Works. Max has written award-winning music for over 50 film and TV projects including Mary Queen of Scots, HBO’s My Brilliant Friend and The Leftovers, Tom Hardy’s Taboo, and Black Mirror. Max’s recent score for James Gray’s Ad Astra earned him his second Grammy nomination.

Margaret Atwood Creative Consultant

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020, she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade. Margaret has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Gareth Pugh Costume Designer

British fashion designer Gareth Pugh has received global recognition for his approach to redefining modern luxury. Educated at London’s Central Saint Martins, in 2020 he was described by The Sunday Times as “Britain’s most exciting designer.” Over the past decade Gareth has worked with some of the most popular artists of our time – including Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Rihanna – and has collaborated with some of the world’s most important cultural institutions, designing shows for New York City Ballet, Opéra Garnier in Paris, Dutch National Opera and The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 2018 , alongside his partner and Co-Creative Director, Carson McColl, Gareth co-founded HARD+ SHINY, an award-winning independent creative studio based in London, specializing in fashion, film, stage design and experiential entertainment. In 2022, Gareth and Carson launched their most ambitious project yet, presenting a new annual summer spectacular at London’s iconic Somerset House titled This Bright Land. The month long festival was billed as “a summer celebration of community and culture,” and attracted over 200,000 visitors in year one.

Lucy Carter is a multi-award-winning lighting designer. She has worked with ballet companies worldwide including Paris Opéra Ballet, The Australian Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, The Bolshoi Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet, Joffrey Ballet and Alvin Ailey. Recent productions with long-term collaborator Wayne McGregor include The Dante Project, McGregor + Mugler, Autobiography, Multiverse, Woolf Works, Obsidian Tear, Afterite, Yugen and Chroma. Opera includes The Cunning Little Vixen, Orphée, Salomé, The Dream of Gerontius (ENO), Mavra/Pierrot Lunaire, Katya Kabanova, Hansel and Gretel (Royal Opera House), Le nozze di Figaro (Opéra de Paris), Werther (Bergen National Opera), La finta giardinera (Glyndebourne). Theatre includes Much Ado About Nothing, Home, I’m Darling (National Theatre, London); 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End, UK Tour); Wicked (Hamburg); and Force Majeure (Donmar Warehouse). She is a two-time winner of the prestigious Knight of Illumination Award for Dance for Chroma (2008) and Woolf Works (2015).

Ravi is an award-winning artist, photographer and film maker. He collaborates frequently with choreographer Wayne McGregor on numerous projects such as such as ATOMOS, Raven Girl, Woolf Works with The Royal Ballet and AFTERITE/LORE at the Met and Teatro alla Scala. He has also worked with other globally renowned choreographers, directors, musicians, including Saburo Teshigawara, Phyllida Lloyd, Michael Clark, Zoviet France, Shobana Jeyasingh. Recent projects include Eden for National Theatre Prague, And Breath… for Almeida, Crave for Chichester Festival Theatre, Afterite for The Royal Danish Ballet and launch artist for ITV creates ident campaign. Film design creations for stage, commissions, exhibitions, broadcast, collaborative and solo works have been presented around the world at high profile institutions including Palais Garnier, NY MET, Sadler’s Wells, Hatton Gallery, Impressions Gallery, Tate Britain, The Lowry, Recontres Arles, Royal Opera House Deloitte Ignite 08, Guanzhou Photography Festival, BBC, Channel 4, ITV and The BRIT Awards 2016.

We Not I Designer

Architectural practice We Not I made its Royal Ballet debut in 2015, designing the second movement, Becomings, of Wayne McGregor’s first full-length ballet Woolf Works. The acclaimed production received Best New Dance Production at the Olivier Awards. We Not I are the designers of Studio Wayne McGregor located in the Here East creative and digital campus in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London. Comprising three dance studios, including two of the largest in London, Studio Wayne McGregor provides diverse and dynamic places for making and developing creative practice and is a locus for shared community, engagement and collaboration across arts, science, technology and research. The project network We Not I extends around the world and collaboratively counters the idea that architecture is the work of a single person. Their benevolent clients include English National Ballet, Teatro alla Scala, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Christopher Kane. We Not I has been heralded as “the future of design” by The Independent.

Ravi Deepres Film Designer

Lucy Carter Lighting Designer

Jenny Tattersall Assistant to the Choreographer

Uzma Hameed is a British writer, director and dramaturg. She was dramaturg to Wayne McGregor on The Royal Ballet’s Woolf Works (Olivier Award), The Dante Project (South Bank Sky Arts Award), Obsidian Tear and Multiverse and on Company Wayne McGregor’s Autobiography. Most recently, she was dramaturg on Wayne’s AfteRiteLORE at Teatro alla Scala. She also collaborated with director Isabelle Kettle on Brecht and Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins/The Mahagonny Songspiel for The Royal Opera and with choreographer Cathy Marston on Northern Ballet’s Victoria (South Bank Sky Arts Award). UNDYING, a two-book novel co-authored by Uzma and her sister, Ambreen, was published in 2021 and longlisted for the Bath Novel Award. Uzma graduated from Cambridge University with a First in Modern and Medieval Languages. In 1997, she founded The Big Picture Company, an innovative theatre company combining new writing with choreography and film. She has also been Associate Director at Derby Playhouse, directed for Kali Theatre and led projects at the National Theatre Studio.

Jenny Tattersal trained at The Royal Ballet School from 1989 to 1993 and danced with The Royal Ballet from 1993 to 2002, performing in all the classical repertory and works by Sir Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Jacopo Godani, Ashley Page, Will Tuckett, Siobhan Davies and others. As a freelance dancer, she worked with choreographers including Cathy Marston, Fin Walker and Kim Brandstrup. Currently a dance teacher, rehearsal director and coach, she has assisted leading choreographers and served as resident rehearsal director with the Bern Ballett from 2007 to 2014. In 2015, she assisted Wayne McGregor on Woolf Works which had its premiere with The Royal Ballet in May 2015 which she later restaged at Teatro alla Scala 2019. She has also restaged Carbon Life (The Royal Ballet), Infra (The Royal Danish Ballet) and Borderland (Munich Ballet) and assisted him on AfteRite with American Ballet Theatre in 2018. Most recently, she assisted Wayne on The Dante Project which premiered with The Royal Ballet in autumn 2021 and Lore, which premiered in Teatro alla Scala in June 22.

Jeff Morris joined The National Ballet of Canada in 1995. Born in Toronto, he studied technical theatre production and administration at Ryerson’s Theatre School. From 1990 to 1995, he was Production Stage Manager for Toronto Dance Theatre. Since joining the National Ballet, Jeff has stage-managed a wide range of the company’s unique classical and contemporary repertoire, including the world premieres of The Four Seasons, Cinderella and An Italian Straw Hat (Kudelka), Emergence and Angels’ Atlas (Pite), Le Petit Prince (Côté) and Frame by Frame (Côté/Lepage). Company premieres include The Seagull, A Streetcar Named Desire, Nijinsky and Anna Karenina (Neumeier), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Winter’s Tale (Wheeldon). He is an adjunct faculty member at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, a board member of SMArts, and Festival Co-Director for dance:made in Canada/fait au Canada

Liliane Stilwell joined The National Ballet of Canada in 2015 and has stage managed The Merry Widow, Onegin, Giselle, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and Pinocchio Previously she served as stage manager for the Canadian Opera Company for 22 years. Highlights include Don Quixote, Barber of Seville, Lucia di Lammermore, La Cenerentola, Otello, Marriage of Figaro, Götterdämmerung (complete Ring Cycle), Macbeth, La Bohème, Eugene Onegin, Madama Butterfly and was part of the team that took Oedipus Rex to the Edinburgh International Festival. Liliane was production stage manager for Grease and stage manager for Robin Hood and Cinderella at the Elgin Theatre, Dirty Dancing at the Royal Alexandra Theatre and Hairspray at the Princess of Wales Theatre. Other credits include Tom Jones, Speed-The-Plow, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Big River, Carousel, Me and My Girl and Roar of the Greasepaint – Smell of the Crowd. Liliane has stage managed several industrial shows in Canada and the US.

Uzma Hameed Dramaturg

Jeff Morris Stage Manager

Liliane Stilwell Stage Manager

Troy Taylor works as a Stage Manager in Toronto and Southern Ontario for dance, theatre and live events. Recent credits include the 2022 Fall for Dance North Festival, As You Like It (Canadian Stage), Amplify 1.0 (Amplified Opera), Wintersong (CCDT), Man and Superman, The Russian Play (Shaw Festival), A Blow in the Face (Nightwood Theatre/ Bald Ego), Dance Weekend (2017 – 2020), Harlem Duet, Girls Like That, The Millennial Malcontent (Tarragon Theatre), Harvest (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Chasing the Path, Armband (Human Body Expression), Come From Away (Mirvish) and Salt Water Moon (Factory Theatre/ Mirvish). He has worked as an Assistant Concert Manager at Tafemusik, a Production Assistant at the Stratford Festival and Script Supervisor on the yearly Ross Petty Pantomime.

Troy Taylor Assistant Stage Manager

The National Ballet Orchestra

The National Ballet of Canada is privileged to have its own full Orchestra with over 60 members. The Orchestra has performed in each of the National Ballet’s seasons and is led by Music Director and Principal Conductor David Briskin. The company’s first Music Director was George Crum who, along with Founder Celia Franca, was a pioneer of the company. Mr. Crum held the position from the company’s inception in 1951 to 1984, when he was appointed Music Director Emeritus. The Orchestra was led by Ermanno Florio from 1985 to 1990. Ormsby Wilkins was Music Director and Principal Conductor from 1990 to 2006. The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra has toured extensively with the company through Canada, the US and Europe. Over the years, the Orchestra has received much acclaim from audiences and critics alike and has recorded two CDs of Michael Torke’s compositions for The Contract (The Pied Piper) and An Italian Straw Hat. The Orchestra made their concert debut at Koerner Hall on April 3, 2012, in celebration of the company’s 60th anniversary.

Arielle Miralles in rehearsal for MADDADDAM. Photo by Karolina Kuras.

Guillaume Côté

Born: Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec

Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 1998 Principal Dancer since: 2004

Naoya Ebe

Born: Tokyo, Japan

Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2007 Principal Dancer since: 2015

Sponsored by Gretchen Ross

Harrison James

Born: Paraparaumu, New Zealand

Trained: San Francisco Ballet School’s Trainee Program and the New Zealand School of Dance Joined National Ballet: 2013 Principal Dancer since: 2016

Sponsored by Lucy White

Siphesihle November

Born: Zolani, South Africa

Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2017 Principal Dancer since: 2021

Sponsored by Jerry & Joan Lozinski

Genevieve Penn Nabity

Born: Casco, Michigan Trained: Main Stage Center for the Arts in Michigan and Canada's National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2018 Principal Dancer since: 2022

Sponsored by George & Kathy Dembroski

Ben Rudisin

Born: Woodbridge, Virginia

Trained: North Carolina School of the Arts and Houston Ballet II Joined National Ballet: 2013 Principal Dancer since: 2021

Sponsored by Sylvie Allard & Brian O'Keefe

Jurgita Dronina

Born: Saratov, Russia

Trained: National M.K Čiurlionis School of Art in Lithuania and Munich International Ballet Academy in Germany

Royal Swedish Ballet: 2005 – 2010 Het Nationale Ballet: 2010 – 2015

Resident Principal Guest Artist with The Hong Kong Ballet: 2015 – 2017 Lead Principal Dancer with English National Ballet: 2017 – 2020 Joined as Principal Dancer: 2015

Koto Ishihara

Born: Nagoya, Japan

Trained: Shiho Kanazawa Ballet School in Japan, The HARID Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida and San Francisco Ballet School Joined as a First Soloist: 2019 Principal Dancer since: 2021

Svetlana Lunkina

Born: Moscow, Russia

Trained: Moscow Choreographic Academy

Bolshoi Ballet: 1997 – 2013 Joined as Principal Dancer: 2014

Sponsored by Anna McCowan-Johnson and Donald K. Johnson, O.C.

Heather Ogden

Born: Toronto, Ontario Trained: Richmond Academy of Dance in British Columbia Joined National Ballet: 1998 Principal Dancer since: 2005

Tina Pereira

Born: Port of Spain, Trinidad Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2001 Principal Dancer since: 2021

Sponsored by The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C.

Piotr Stanczyk

Born: Poznan, Poland

Trained: State Ballet School of Poznan and Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 1998 Principal Dancer since: 2008

Stephanie Hutchison

Born: Kitchener, Ontario

Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School

Joined National Ballet: 1997 Principal Character Artist since: 2015

PRINCIPAL

Rebekah Rimsay

Born: Fort Collins, Colorado

Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School

Joined National Ballet: 1990 Principal Character Artist since: 2012

FIRST SOLOISTS

Jack Bertinshaw

Born: Sydney, Australia

Trained: Tanya Pearson Classical Coaching Academy in Australia and the Tanz Akademie Zürich in Switzerland Joined National Ballet: 2011 First Soloist since: 2018

Sponsored by an anonymous donor

Christopher Gerty

Born: Watford, England

Trained: Newcastle Dance Academy in Australia, New Zealand School of Dance and San Francisco Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2014 First Soloist since: 2022

Sponsored by Ms. Nancy Viner & Dr. Raymond Stein

Jeannine Haller

Born: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Trained: Place des Arts in Coquitlam, British Columbia and Canada's National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2015 First Soloist since: 2021

Sponsored by Devida & Derek Smith

Alexandra MacDonald

Born: Calgary, Alberta

Trained: International School of Ballet in Calgary and Boston Ballet School’s Trainee Program Joined National Ballet: 2007 First Soloist since: 2016

Sponsored by an anonymous donor

Alejandra Perez-Gomez

Born: Toronto, Ontario

Trained: L’École supérieure de danse du Québec, Princess Grace Academy and San Francisco Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 1998 Principal Character Artist since: 2013

Jordana Daumec

Born: New York City, New York

Trained: Studio Maestro in New York and Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2003 First Soloist since: 2015

Spencer Hack

Born: Toledo, Ohio

Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2014 First Soloist since: 2021

Tanya Howard

Born: Uitenhage, South Africa

Trained: The National School of Arts in South Africa and Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 1998 First Soloist since: 2007

Chelsy Meiss

Born: Melbourne, Australia

Trained: Karen Curlis School of Dance, Thelma Williams School of Dance, The Victorian College of The Arts in Australia and The Australian Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2008 First Soloist since: 2015

Sponsored by Anne-Marie Canning

Jenna Savella

Born: Vancouver, British Columbia

Trained: DanceWest and Lavrova Classical Ballet Academy in British Columbia and Canada’s National Ballet School

Joined National Ballet: 2004 First Soloist since: 2015

Sponsored by Elvio & Marlene DelZotto

Donald Thom

Born: Kanata, Ontario

Trained: Linda Jamison School of Dance in Ottawa and The Royal Ballet Upper School in London

Joined National Ballet: 2015 First Soloist since: 2019

Brenna Flaherty

Born: Boston, Massachusetts

Trained: Boston Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2016 Second Soloist since: 2021

Selene Guerrero-Trujillo

Born: Mexico City, Mexico

Trained: The National Ballet School of Mexico and Canada’s National Ballet School Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2007 Second Soloist since: 2022

Miyoko Koyasu

Born: Chiba, Japan

Trained: Hashimoto Ballet and Shimada Ballet Institute in Japan and Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2011 Second Soloist since: 2018

Noah Parets

Born: Boston, Massachusetts

Trained: Boston Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2018 Second Soloist since: 2021

Sponsored by John Covington Jr & Robert Lukey

Calley Skalnik

Born: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Trained: Tulsa Balllet Academy and Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2014 First Soloist since: 2021

Sponsored by an anonymous donor

Hannah Galway

Born: Comox, British Columbia

Trained: Canada's National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2017 Second Soloist since: 2021

Sponsored by Alison & Alan Schwartz

Kathryn Hosier

Born: Champaign, Illinois

Trained: Champaign-Urbana Ballet Academy and Canada’s National Ballet School

Joined National Ballet: 2009 Second Soloist since: 2015

Sponsored by Donna Meyers & Doug Richmond

Tirion Law

Born: Hong Kong

Trained: The New Zealand School of Dance Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2018 Second Soloist since: 2022

Kota Sato

Born: Tokyo, Japan

Trained: Shimura Ballet School in Japan and Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2012 Second Soloist since: 2019

Sponsored by Tony Arrell, C.M. & Anne Arrell

Ross Allen

Born: Steubenville, Ohio

Trained: Arenas Dance Company in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre in Pennsylvania and the School of American Ballet in New York City, New York

Joined National Ballet: 2020 Corps de Ballet since: 2022

Trygve Cumpston

Born: Des Moines, Iowa

Trained: School of Classical Ballet and Dance in Des Moines, Iowa, Orlando Ballet School in Florida and San Francisco Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2012 Corps de Ballet since: 2013

Shaelynn Estrada

Born: Nacogdoches, Texas

Trained: Ellison Ballet Professional Training Program in New York City, New York and The Rock School for Dance Education Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2019

Nina Gentes

Born: Buffalo, New York

Trained: Classical Ballet of Western New York in Williamsville, New York and Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2019 Corps de Ballet since: 2022

Monika Haczkiewicz

Born: Las Vegas, Nevada

Trained: Nevada Ballet Theatre, Kwak Ballet Academy, Tara Foy's Elite Ballet and Nevada School of Dance in Las Vegas, Nevada and Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2019

Ayano Haneishi

Born: Chiba, Japan

Trained: Ecole de Ballet Pied Nus in Japan and New National Theatre Ballet, Tokyo in Japan Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2019

Isabelle Bratt

Born: Toronto, Ontario

Trained: Canada's National Ballet School Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2022

Emerson Dayton

Born: Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Trained: Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2022

Jason Ferro

Born: Franklinville, New Jersey

Trained: San Francisco Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2018 Corps de Ballet since: 2020

Albjon Gjorllaku

Born: London, England Trained: The Royal Ballet School in London Joined National Ballet: 2019 Corps de Ballet since: 2022

Josh Hall

Born: Syracuse, New York Trained: University of North Carolina School of the Arts Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2022

Peng-Fei Jiang

Born: Anhui, China

Trained: Beijing Dance Academy and the New Zealand School of Dance Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2017

Sophie Lee

Born: Seoul, South Korea

Trained: Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and Canada's National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2019 Corps de Ballet since: 2022

Scott McKenzie

Born: Alexandria, Scotland

Trained: The Royal Ballet School in London Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2020

Arielle Miralles

Born: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2019 Corps de Ballet since: 2022

Clare Peterson

Born: Kelowna, British Columbia

Trained: Canada's National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2014 Corps de Ballet since: 2016

Sponsored by an anonymous donor

David Preciado

Born: Los Angeles, California

Trained: Los Angeles Ballet Academy, San Francisco Ballet School Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2022

Alexander Skinner

Born: Ottawa, Ontario

Trained: The School of Dance in Ottawa, Ontario and Canada's National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2017 Corps de Ballet since: 2018

Sponsored by Anne & David LeGresley

Keaton Leier

Born: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Trained: Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and Houston Ballet II Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2022

Larkin Miller

Born: Los Angeles, California

Trained: The School of American Ballet and American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in New York City, New York Joined National Ballet: 2016 Corps de Ballet since: 2018

Emma Ouellet

Born: London, Ontario

Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2020 Corps de Ballet since: 2022

McKhayla Pettingill

Born: Chandler, Arizona

Trained: Houston Ballet Academy Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2022

Teagan Richman–Taylor

Born: Vancouver, British Columbia

Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School, Goh Ballet Academy and Arts Umbrella in Vancouver Joined National Ballet: 2017 Corps de Ballet since: 2018

Sponsored by Devida & Derek Smith

Arianna Soleti

Born: Fasano (Brindisi), Italy

Trained: Accademia Teatro alla Scala Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2022

Konstantin Tkachuk

Born: Donetsk, Ukraine

Trained: Kyiv State Ballet College

Eifman Ballet: 2010 – 2011

Mariinsky Theatre: 2011 – 2013

Mikhailovsky Theatre: 2013 – 2022 Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2022

Christopher Waters

Born: Vancouver, British Columbia

Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2019 Corps de Ballet since: 2022

Tene Ward

Born: Sydney, Austrailia

Trained: Canberra Festival Ballet School in Australia, The Australian Ballet School and European School of Ballet in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Joined National Ballet: 2018 Corps de Ballet since: 2019

Isaac Wright

Born: Belleville, Ontario

Trained: Quinte Ballet School of Canada in Belleville, Ontario and Canada's National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2015 Corps de Ballet since: 2019

Sponsored by Michelle & Duncan SInclair

Canadian Premiere of Anima Animus World Premiere by Rena Butler & Symphony

Cinderella

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Romeo and Juliet

LEADERSHIP GIVING

The National Ballet of Canada is grateful to the following donors for their generous gifts that provide leadership and inspiration in support of the company’s artistic vision.  (October 1, 2021 – September 30, 2022)

Production Builders

The following individuals and foundations have made extraordinary contributions to expand our repertoire with new visions of dance for 2022/23 and future seasons.

Tony Arrell, C.M. & Anne Arrell

Pamela and Paul Austin and The P. Austin Family Foundation

Walter Carsen New Creations Fund

First Plazas Inc. in memory of Avie Bennett

The Gail Hutchison Fund

Rosamond Ivey

The Hal Jackman Foundation

The Producers’ Circle

Anna McCowan-Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C.

The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation

Tim & Frances Price

Gretchen Ross & Donald Ross, O.C. Noreen Taylor, C.M. & David Staines, C.M., O.Ont

The Volunteer Committee, The National Ballet of Canada

The members of The Producers’ Circle collaborate to provide funds for the Artistic Director to commission new work and acquire existing ballets to expand the company’s repertoire and inspire artists and audiences.

Founding Chair, Sandra Faire

Gail & Mark Appel

John & Claudine Bailey

Inger Bartlett & Marshal Stearns

Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney

Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance

Kevin Garland & Roger Garland, C.M.

Ira Gluskin & Maxine Granovsky Gluskin

The William & Nona Heaslip Foundation

Anna McCowan-Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C.

Dancers First Programme

Judy Korthals & Peter Irwin

Mona & Harvey Levenstein

Jerry & Joan Lozinski

The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C. Julie Medland

Sandra Pitblado, C.M. & Jim Pitblado, C.M.

The Harry & Lillian Seymour Family Foundation The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation

Donors to Dancers First are dedicated to supporting the National Ballet’s exceptional dancers.

Sylvie Allard & Brian O’Keefe

Principal Dancer Ben Rudisin

George & Kathy Dembroski

Principal Dancer Genevieve Penn Nabity

Anna McCowan-Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C.

Principal Dancer Svetlana Lunkina

Jerry & Joan Lozinski

Principal Dancer Siphesihle November

The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C.

Principal Dancer Tina Pereira

Gretchen Ross

Principal Dancer Naoya Ebe

Lucy White

Principal Dancer Harrison James

Anne-Marie Canning

First Soloist Chelsy Meiss

Elvio & Marlene DelZotto

First Soloist Jenna Savella

YOU dance

Devida & Derek Smith

First Soloist Jeannine Haller

Ms. Nancy Viner & Dr. Raymond Stein

First Soloist Christopher Gerty

Anonymous

First Soloist Jack Bertinshaw

Anonymous

First Soloist Alexandra MacDonald

Anonymous

First Soloist Calley Skalnik

Tony Arrell, C.M. & Anne Arrell

Second Soloist Kota Sato

John Covington Jr & Robert Lukey

Second Soloist Noah Parets

Donna Meyers & Doug Richmond

Second Soloist Kathryn Hosier

Alison & Alan Schwartz

Second Soloist Hannah Galway

Anne & David LeGresley

Corps de Ballet member Alexander Skinner

Catherine & Ian Delaney Corps de Ballet Supporter

Michelle & Duncan Sinclair Corps de Ballet member Tene Ward

Devida & Derek Smith Corps de Ballet member Teagan Richman-Taylor

Cornell Wright & Sarah McEvoy Corps de Ballet Supporter

Tricia Younger Corps de Ballet Supporter

Anonymous Corps de Ballet member Clare Peterson

Rolex Canada Ltd.

Rolex Dancers First Award

YOU dance is a constellation of initiatives that introduces and celebrates ballet as a means of creative self-expression. These donors generously support the workshops, performances, residencies and livestreams that encourage imagination, movement and an appreciation for the arts.

Susanne Boyce & Brendan Mullen

Ballet Club Relevé

Elizabeth A. & Richard J. Currie, O.C.

The Anna McCowan-Johnson Dance Accessibility Fund Steve & Sally Stavro Foundation

Music Circle and Orchestra

When the company was founded, live music was an integral part of both process and performance. Today, the National Ballet maintains that commitment with thanks to these donors who are instrumental in supporting the nation’s only dedicated ballet orchestra.

John & Claudine Bailey

Nani & Austin Beutel

Jeanie A. Davis

Indra & Rags Davloor

Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney Sherry & Edward Drew

The Thor E. and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation

William & Ruth Herridge

Anne & Charles Morison

L.J. Nagel & Stan Solomon

The National Ballet of Canada, Endowment

Foundation

Sandra Pitblado, C.M. & Jim Pitblado, C.M. John & Susan Rose

Gretchen Ross & Donald Ross, O.C. Noreen Taylor, C.M., & David Staines, C.M., O.Ont. (Conductor-in-Residence) TD Bank Group Orchestra Fund The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundation (Rehearsal Pianists) Lenore Walters

Tricia Younger

We acknowledge the generosity of the following donors who are graciously supporting the future of the National Ballet. (October 1, 2021 – September 30, 2022)

Yeti Agnew & Christopher Birt

Patricia & Bob Campbell

Estate of Dr. Ann E. Camps

Estate of Walter Carsen, O.C

Stephen D. Clark

Alice Court

Jocelyn Deichmann

Anita Dias

Lynne DiStefano

Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance

Maureen & James Dunn D. and G. Estey Foundation

Estate of Eleanor Joyce Forster

Margaret Anne Fountain, C.M. & David Glenn Fountain, C.M. Murray Frum Foundation

Geoffrey W. Fulton

Anthony & Helen Graham

George Goldberg

Dr. & Mrs. Voldemars Gulens

Ronald M. Haynes

Caroline L. Helbronner

William & Ruth Herridge

Donald Hogarth

Dancer Wellness

Jane Hogarth

John Hogarth Dona H. R. Jayasinghe Grace Lake

Nancy and William Logan Jerry & Joan Lozinski

The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C. Anna McCowan-Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C. Estate of Margaret E. McKelvey Peter & Melanie Munk Estate of Vida Peene Lisa Richter Davey & Michael Davey Sabine Schleese

Devida & Derek Smith Estate of James D. Stewart Gloria Taylor

The UK Friends of The National Ballet of Canada Marje Virro Estate of Diana B. Weatherall Estate of Judith R. Wilder Ms. Vivien M. Wu One Anonymous Donor

The health and wellness of the National Ballet’s artists is a high priority; with investments in care, each dancer is able toperform at the best of their ability and to continue to dance for many years.

Lynda Hamilton

Audrey S. Hellyer Charitable Foundation

The McLean Foundation

Special Gifts

Kevin Garland & Roger Garland, C.M. Production Supporter

John & Claudine Bailey

The International Competition for The Erik Bruhn Prize

Esprit de Corps

Tim & Frances Price

The Horst Dantz & Don Quick Dancer Wellness Fund Rolex Canada Ltd.

Anonymous

One Anonymous Lady

The Estate of Helen Allen Stacey Special Needs Initiatives

Lucille Joseph & Urban Joseph, O.C. CreativAction

The Corps de Ballet comprises more than half the company and requires great coordination and precision. These donors are supporting the talent and promise of the dancers in the Corps de Ballet.

Diana Billes

Jeanie A. Davis

Indra & Rags Davloor

Cheryl Ferguson & Paul Jamael

Geoffrey W. Fulton

Krista Kerr

Eunice Lumsden & Peter Luit

Alison & J. Bruce McDonald

Geneviève McKillop & Chris Bennett

Vincent Mercier & Kirsten Halpin

Linda & Kevin O’Leary

Victor & Bernice Royce

The Sabourin Family Michele & Ryerson Symons

COMMUNITY OF SUPPORT

The National Ballet of Canada gratefully acknowledges the following donors and sponsors for their generosity and commitment to sustain the excellence, energy and impact of great dance. (October 1, 2021 – September 30, 2022)

$25,000 and above

Sylvie Allard & Brian O'Keefe

Gail & Mark Appel◊◊

Tony Arrell, C.M. & Anne Arrell◊

Pamela & Paul Austin◊◊

The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli

John & Claudine Bailey◊◊

Nani & Austin Beutel◊◊

Ms. Susanne Boyce & Dr. Brendan Mullen◊

Estate of Ann E. Camps◊◊

Anne-Marie Canning◊

Estate of Walter Carsen, O.C.◊◊

Terence Clarkson & C. Van de Graaff

Judi & Lionel Conacher◊◊

David & Kathryn Cottingham◊

John Covington Jr and Robert Lukey

Mrs. & Mr. Jack Creed

Elizabeth A. & Richard J. Currie, O.C.◊◊

Jeanie A. Davis◊◊

Indra & Rags Davloor◊

Catherine & Ian Delaney

George & Kathy Dembroski◊◊

Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney

Sherry Taylor Drew◊◊

Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance◊

Estate of James D. Stewart

Margaret Anne Fountain, C.M. & David Glenn Fountain, C.M.◊◊

Kevin Garland & Roger Garland, C.M.◊◊

Ira Gluskin & Maxine Granovsky Gluskin◊

Nona Heaslip, C.M.◊◊

Mr. William R. Herridge◊◊

Rosamond Ivey

Anna McCowan-Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C.◊◊

The Henry White Kinnear Foundation◊◊

Mrs. Judy Korthals & Mr. Peter Irwin◊◊

Anne & David LeGresley◊

Mona & Harvey Levenstein◊◊

Jerry & Joan Lozinski◊◊

The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C.◊◊

The H. John McDonald Foundation

Estate of Margaret E. McKelvey◊◊

The McLean Foundation◊◊

Julie & Ted Medland◊◊

Donna Meyers & Doug Richmond◊

Nancy Pencer◊◊

Sandra Pitblado, C.M. & Jim Pitblado, C.M.◊◊ Tim & Frances Price◊◊

Aaron & Heather Regent◊

Robin Robinson◊◊

Rolex Canada◊

Gretchen Ross & Donald Ross, O.C.◊◊

The Estate of Lawrence Schafer

Alison & Alan Schwartz

Mrs. Lillian Seymour◊

Sandra Simpson◊

Michelle & Duncan Sinclair

Devida & Derek Smith

Estate of Helen Allen Stacey◊◊

Michele & Ryerson Symons◊

Ms. Nancy Viner & Dr. Raymond Stein◊

The Volunteer Committee, The National Ballet of Canada◊◊

Estate of Diana St. B. Weatherall

The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation

Lucy White*◊

Estate of Judith R. Wilder◊

Estate of E. Joan Williams◊◊ Cornell Wright & Sarah McEvoy◊ Tricia Younger◊◊

Five Anonymous Donors

$15,000 – $24,999

Elaine J. Adair◊◊

Alison Fisher◊◊

Mr. Alberto Behar Diana Billes◊

Ms. Deborah Cumming◊

Maureen & James Dunn◊

Mrs. and Mr. John Grant◊◊

Dr. & Mrs. Voldemars Gulens◊◊

Lynda Hamilton◊

Mr. & Mrs. G.R. Heffernan◊◊ Richard & Martha Hogarth◊◊

Ms. Krista Kerr◊

Eunice Lumsden & Peter Luit◊

Ned & Georgina McLennan◊◊

Ms. Vanessa L. Morgan & Mr. Steve Wolf◊ Anne & Charles Morison◊

Melanie Munk◊

L.J. Nagel & Stan Solomon◊ John & Susan Rose◊ Ms. Sabine Schleese Lenore Walters◊◊

$10,000 – $14,999

Gregory & Irene Aziz◊◊

Patricia & Bob Campbell◊◊

The Thor E. and Nicole Eaton

Family Charitable Foundation◊◊ Cheryl Ferguson & Paul Jamael Geoffrey W. Fulton

Brian Hodges & Robert Paul◊

Lucille Joseph & Urban Joseph, O.C.◊◊ Ms. Judy Klarman◊◊

Philip & Sherri Lieberman◊ Nancy and William Logan◊◊ Sue & Biff Matthews◊◊

Alison & J. Bruce McDonald

Geneviève McKillop & Chris Bennett◊

Vincent Mercier & Kirsten Halpin MNB Charitable Fund

Mr. & Mrs. Benoit Mulsant◊

Linda & Kevin O'Leary◊

Estate of Joan Pape◊◊

Robbie Pryde◊

Victor & Bernice Royce

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Royer and Family◊

The Sabourin Family

Tony Scott-Fisher◊◊

Ms. Deborah Scott◊◊

Dr. Hugh Siddall◊

Marion Soloway◊

Mrs. Frances M. Stretton◊◊

Marje Virro◊

Mr. Brian B. Wilks◊◊

Estate of Ethel M. Woods◊◊

Three Anonymous Donors

$7,500 – $9,999

Diane Blake & Stephen Smith◊ Mary & John Crocker◊◊

Mrs. Anne W. Dupre & Mr. Fredrick J. Marker◊◊ Hope Charitable Foundation◊◊ Ms. Helen Ziegler

Two Anonymous Donors

$5,000 – $7,499

Elana Metter & Stephen A. Adler

Karen & Bill Barnett◊◊

Gillian & Ken Bartlett◊◊

Elizabeth Burridge

Margaret & John Casey◊◊

John Church◊

Judith & Marshall Cohen◊◊

Missy & Allan Crosbie◊◊

Indra & Rags Davloor◊ Ann and Ross Dobbin

Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards

Lucinda Flemer, C.M.◊◊

Geoffrey W. Fulton◊

Dr. Ricardo Gomez-Insausti

Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Mary Gore

Anthony & Helen Graham

Carol Gray◊◊

Ms. Taanta Gupta◊◊

Ginette Hamel* & Cliff Trollope

Hon. & Mrs. Paul T. Hellyer◊◊

Joan F. Ivory, C.M.◊◊

Karen Kain, C.C., LL.D., D.Litt., O.Ont. & Ross Petty◊◊

Margaret Kawaja◊◊

Estate of Diane Kernohan◊◊

Ms. Tammy Klein Gurney Krantz Charitable Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. A. Maggiacomo◊◊

Mr. Ryan McNally Shabin Mohamed Leonard Molczadski

Ted Murata

Mr. David Murray Dr. Bo Y. Ngan◊◊

Ms. Marianne Oundjian◊

Estate of Sophia Podrozny Mr. Don Quach◊

Mr. & Mrs. Rick Reininger◊◊

Diana Reitberger*◊

Noah Richler & Sarah Maclachlan

Esther Sarick◊◊

Mr. Greg Sharp◊

Ms. Karen Sparks◊◊

Mr. Geoffrey Wayne Squibb◊◊

Dennis & Denny Starritt◊◊

Brenda Stinson & Carlo De Angelis◊

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel F. Sullivan◊

Mark and Kim Surchin◊◊

Tesari Charitable Foundation

Ed & Sylvia Vanhaverbeke◊◊

Julie Wood

One Anonymous Donor

$3,000 – $4,999

Yeti Agnew & Christopher Birt◊◊

Catherine J.T. Allgood◊◊

Robin Anthony◊

Ms. Debra J. Appleton◊

Dr. & Mrs. G.R. Rastegar◊

Ms. Yveline Audemars & Mr. Humberto Rivero◊

James Austin & Hans Eppenberger◊◊

N. Beilstein & A. Lee◊

Ms. Michele Berg

Mr. John R. Birkett◊◊

Sarah Booth

Ms. Josée Bouchard & Mr. Paul Belanger◊

Walter M. & Lisa Balfour Bowen◊◊

Jane Kilburn Boyle

Dr. Ian & Mrs. Brindle◊

Margaret Brock◊◊

The Canavan Family Foundation

Mrs. Earlaine Collins◊

Mr. John Coke & Ms. Cathy Cranston◊ Miss Emilie Cushman

Jane Darville & Dr. Skip Bassford C.M.◊

Ms. Anne Davidson◊

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Davis◊◊

Mary-Kathleen Delicaet & John Young◊

Ms. Flora Do◊

Judy Dunn◊

M.G. Eaton & David S. Kertland◊◊

Joanne Eidinger◊

Mr. Joseph Fantl & Ms. Moira Bartram◊

Eileen Farrow

Ms. Cecil Fennell◊

Ms. Catriona Ferguson & Mr. David Safran

Russell C. Finch

M. Patricia Fischer◊◊

Mr. Lorne Fox◊◊

Ken & Linda Foxcroft◊◊

Bronwen Gates◊◊

Heather V. Gibson◊

Gordon and Lorraine Gibson Family Foundation

Judy & David Goodings◊◊

Ms. Vanessa Grant & Mr. Philip Street

Mrs. Lorna Greenbaum◊◊

Timothy & Jacquelyn Hack

Mary & Graham Hallward◊

Mrs. Beverly Hargraft◊

Nancy Haston

Mr. Peter Hendrick◊

Ann Hogarth◊◊

Nancy Holland◊

Christopher E. Horne, Esq.◊

Barry Hughson* & Ashley Hughson

Mr. Fred Hurlbut & Ms. Catherine Barlow◊ Jackman Foundation◊◊

Ms. Ishrani Jaikaran

Norman Jewison, C.C.◊

Mr. Saleem Kassum◊◊

Patrick & Barbara Keenan Foundation◊◊

Mrs. Dorothea Kostecki

Mr. Ron Lalonde and Ms. Jane Humphreys

Ms. Annick Lapotre◊

Susan Levesque

Ms. Valerie Lockerbie◊

Margaret and Robert MacLellan◊ Judy Manji◊◊

Ms. Eleanor McCain◊◊

Marcia McClung◊

Mrs. Faye McDermid

Patti McFarlane◊◊

Jim & Sylvia McGovern◊◊

Hélène & Ray McLenaghan◊◊

Kathleen Metcalfe◊

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Derry◊

Ms. Laurie Pallett◊◊

Mrs. Julia Pankratz◊◊

Mr. Douglas L. Parker◊◊

Mr. D. Ross Peebles & Ms. Judith Cole◊◊

Sonya Rabeneck

Mrs. Jennifer Revelle◊

Lisa Richter Davey & Michael Davey◊

Ms. Stephanie Roberts & Mr. Kevin Hamilton◊

Mr. James Robertson & Mr. Jim Scott Mr. Gary Rogers◊◊

Elaine M. Roper◊◊

Andrea Rosen & Stephen MacDonald◊◊ Mr. Geoffrey Rytell◊◊ Mr. Go Sato◊◊

Sheilah Scrocchi

Mr. John B. Simcoe

Helen Feng and Alice Song

Cathy Spoel

Kristi Stangeland Joel Stevens◊

Eli Taylor◊

Gillian Thomas & Michael Easterbrook◊◊ Denise Ireland & Harry Underwood

Dianne Vanstone

Karen Wierucki*◊◊

Shelagh and David Wilson Fund at the Toronto Foundation◊◊

Frederika Winchell Mrs. Nan Wiseman

Mrs. Sharon Wright◊ Mrs. Vivien M. Wu◊◊

The Young Family Foundation

Veronica Zufelt◊◊

Five Anonymous Donors

$2,000 – $2,999

Mr. James Anok & Mr. Daniel Brereton Jordan Applebaum & Andrea Burridge◊◊

Robert & Mary Pat Armstrong◊◊

Dr. Talitha Arndt & Mr. Ed Esposto◊◊ Lynly & Trevor Bailie◊◊ Mr. Paul Barber

Winifred Barclay◊◊ Mr. Scott Barnum & Ms. Nadya Tymochenko◊ Florence Sharpe Barwell◊◊

Katherine J. Baxter Mrs. Anna Binet Anstice Blom◊◊

Susan M. Borden◊◊

Gayle Boxer Duncanson Mr. Matthew Boylan Mr. Jonathan Briggs Julia & David Briskin*

Barbara Brownlee◊◊

Ms. Janet Bulger◊

Ms. Helen Burstyn, C.M.◊

Anthony Camisso

Ms. Linda Campbell◊◊

Denise Cargill◊

Ms. Janet Casey Ms. Terri Chalmers

Professor Alfred L. Chan & Michael Farewell◊

Diana Chant & Bill Mitchell◊◊

Peng Chiang◊◊

Siobhan Hyland & Ivan Chittenden

Mr. Philip A. Clappison◊◊

Helene Clarkson◊

Ms. Lisa Conway

Mrs. Louise Cornblum◊◊

Dr. Lesley S. Corrin◊◊

Mr. Derrick Croswell◊

Chris & Katherine Cummings

Dr. Gaylord Curry, in memoriam◊◊ Carole Curtis◊◊

Estate of Horst Albert Herbert Dantz Amanda Demers & Brian Collins◊

Trina DeSa◊◊

Wilf & Brenda Dinnick◊◊

Henry Dinsdale & Diane Wherrett Dudley Family Fund◊◊

Ms. Catherine Dunn Stadtegger & Mr. Glenn Stadtegger

Ms. & Mr. Doone Estey Joan Farano◊◊

Catherine Fauquier◊◊ Jan Fleming & Mitchell Winnik Robert & Julia Foster◊◊ Alice H. Fox◊◊

Mr. Bruce Fullerton André J. Galipeault, C.M. & Suzanne Galipeault◊◊

Mrs. Hilda Gan◊

Ms Susan Garvie◊◊

Judith Gelber◊

Ms. Susan Gerhard◊

Ms. Tamara Glied◊

Mr. George Goldberg Mark & Louise Golding◊◊

Mr. Donald D. Grant◊◊

Ms. Susan Greenbloom◊

Charles Greiner◊

Mr. Wayne Haase Michael & Rita Hafeman◊◊

Katherine Halpenny & Sean Smith◊ Alayne Kato-Hamilton & Malcolm Hamilton◊◊

Ms. Malle Harris◊◊ Ms. Naomi Harris◊◊

Mr. Jason Heayn & Ms. Andrea Venneri◊

Mr. Gerald R. Heffernan Mary & Arthur Heinmaa Avril Higgins & Robert Page◊◊

Dr. June Higgins Ms. Dora Ho

Ms. Elaine Ho

Mr. Ronald Holgerson◊

Mr. Philip & Dr. Claire Holloway◊◊ Ms. Chaviva Hosek O.C.◊◊

Joanna Ivey* & Lorne Babiuk◊◊ Mrs. Pennie R. Jevnikar◊◊

Mr. Greg Johns◊

Mrs. Ann Kadrnka◊

Ms. Miriam Kagan◊

Dr. Caroline Newman & Mitchell Kamiel

Ms. Susan Keen◊◊

Mr. Kagan Kerman◊

Mr. Gordon Kirke

Miss Maggie Koabel

Jennifer Kropac & Kevin Law

Ms. Catherine Lace◊

Brett Ledger & Patricia Olasker

Linda K. Lee◊

Richard Lefebvre* & Steve Murray

Dr. Calvin Lei◊◊

Dr. Tin Leung

Ms. Judy Linton

Dr. Charlene Linzon & Geoffrey Shulman◊ Dr. Nancy Lockhart, C.M.◊

Harriet MacMillan

Ms. Liza Mauer & Mr. Andrew Sheiner◊ Janice May◊◊

Ms. Nicola Mayer

Ms. Marci McDonald

Mrs. Yvonne McGregor

Virginia and Peter McLaughlin

Mrs. June McLean◊◊

Ms. Margaret C. McNee◊◊

Sylvia M. McPhee◊◊

Elaine Kierans & Shawn McReynolds◊

Ms. Voula Michaelidis

Nancy Miller & Glen Ireland

Clive & Fran Minto◊◊

Ms. Bernadette Morra◊

Neil & Prue Morrison◊

Ms. Marina Nawrocki

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Nesker◊◊

Ms. Carol Newall◊◊

Petra & Lionel Newton

Ms. Judith O'Callaghan

Ms. Sandra Odendahl

Michael & Nina Overbury◊◊

Rene Pantalone◊◊

Graham & Janet Parkinson◊◊

Dr. Michael Partridge & Dr. Sudha Rajagopal◊

Ms. Lisa Pearson

Dorothy & Roland Pfeiffer◊

David Phipps & Gary Myers

Mr. Ryan Poppa

Dr. Linda Rabeneck & Dr. Catherine Campbell◊

Ms. Rani Rahman Jamieson

Mr. Robert Raizenne◊

Carol & Morton Rapp◊

Dr. Devon Richardson

Cee Cee & Bruce Robertson

The Rogan Foundation

David Ross & Audrey Loeb

Mr. & Mrs. Rainer & Sharyn Rothfuss◊◊

Ms. Sandra Ruehlow

Mr. Reza Satchu & Ms. Marion Annau

Paul J. Savard◊◊

Ms. Ann Savege◊

Ms. Diane Schmidt◊

Dr. Hugh Scully & Vanessa Harwood, O.C.◊◊

Mr. Charles Seminerio*◊

Mrs. & Mr. E.J. Shatilla◊◊

Mrs. Dorothy Sjogren◊◊

Stephen & Jane Smith◊◊

Dr. Myra Sourkes◊◊

Ms. Anna Stahmer-Jarmain & Mr. W. Edwin Jarmain◊

Dr. John Stanley & Dr. Helmut Reichenbächer◊◊

Ms. Astrid Stec◊

Mr. John Steen Carol Swallow◊◊

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald P. Tam

Dr. Daphne Taras

Karyn Tessmer & Dr. George Konn◊

Ms. Catherine Thomson◊◊

Cynthia Caron Thorburn & Craig Thorburn◊

Bonita & Walter Thornton◊

Maureen & Philip Tingley◊◊

Mr. Quentin Toderick & Mrs. Eva Sorbara-Toderick

Mrs. Elizabeth Tory◊◊

Mrs. Nicola Tory◊

Mr. Alex Tosheff◊

Jon & Olga Voigt◊

Lenore Walters◊◊

Natalie Warner Mrs. Ruth Wheler◊◊

James Whitaker

Ms. Martha Wilder◊

Gregory Williams & Warren Sorensen◊◊

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Willis Mrs. Lorrie Willson

Peri Wiseman

Durhane Wong-Rieger◊

Maria T. Zakos◊◊

Ms. Denise Zarn & Mr. James Shenkman◊◊ Carole & Bernie Zucker◊◊ Eight Anonymous Donors

($1,500 – $1,999)

Dr. Matthew Bagdan

Ms. Elspeth Bowler

Ms. M.J. Breithaupt◊◊

Leslie Buskard◊

Mrs. Lois J. Field◊◊

Dr. Caroline Newman & Mitchell Kamiel◊◊ Ms. Michelle Knight Yuanqing Li Flora Macdonald◊◊

Lorna Reevely

Andrea Rosen & Stephen MacDonald◊◊

Diane and Joseph Rosenthal◊◊

Ms. Marlies Schlichting◊

Mrs. Aleesha Valentine Mr. Luke Windisch◊

P. Madeleine Wong◊ Mr. Morden Yolles Two Anonymous Donors

$1,000 – $1,499

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Anastasiades◊◊ Ms. Adriana Arevalo

Tim Badgley◊◊

Mr. & Mrs. John Balmer◊◊

Barret Family Foundation Ms. Roberta Benson Ms. Shira Bernholtz Ms. Elizabeth Black◊◊

Dorothy Novotny Brandenburg◊

Christopher Bredt & Jamie Cameron◊◊ Mr. & Mrs. Allan & Freda Brender◊◊ Karen Brookfield◊◊ Ms. Stephanie Brown Harold Chmara & Danny Hoy◊◊ Mrs. Janis Chodas Ms. M.C. Clancy◊◊ Ms. Catherine Clark◊

Stephen D. Clark Mrs. Katherine Corlett◊ Maija Dale◊◊

Mr. Douglas Coughlin Mr. John Dean

Lynne DiStefano Mrs. M. J. Dundas & Mr. John Petrosoniak◊◊ Mr. David Eastaugh Ms. Judith Edmondson◊◊ Leilah Edroos◊◊

Ms. E.L. Ellins◊◊

CJ Fitzgerald Ms. Nancy Fung◊ Ms. Lisa Gignac Ms. Michelle Glied-Goldstein Mr. David Goluboff & Ms Sue-Anne Fox Ms. Rosemary Grant◊ Mrs. and Mr. Marion Green◊ Ms. Sandra L. Green & Ms. Mary Stephenson◊ Frances Greenwood◊

Elisabeth Handler◊

Stephen & Marion Hart

Katherine Harvey & Clemens Sels

Mr. Daniel Hoffman & Ms. Loretta Degasperi

Ms. Elizabeth Howson◊◊

Ms. Gillian Humphreys◊◊

Ms. Brooke Hunter Mr. Adrian Ishak Dr. Nina Josefowitz◊ Dr. Joshua Josephson◊ Mrs. Lorraine Kaake◊

Alfred G. Kelley Ms. Suzanne Kopas Ms. Brenda Lachance & Mr. Peter Lanskail

Janet Lamb◊◊

Mrs. Hazel Lefebvre Dr. Geoffrey M. Lusignan Ms. Sherry MacEachern◊◊

Connie & Peter Mak◊◊

Mr. Jonathan Matthews

Fred Mattocks & Susan Kelly

Ms. Barbara McCreath◊

Ms. Catherine McMillan◊ Mr. Maurice McNamara Mrs. Stephanie Meredith◊◊ Dr. Goldie Morgentaler Ms. Tracy Mulder◊

Heather Mundell◊ Dr. M.L. Myers

Mr. Keith Nash

Mr. & Mrs. James & Lynn Neufeld◊◊ Ms. Cindy Nowina

Ms. Brigid O'Reilly◊◊

Ed & Lou Pamenter◊◊

Mrs. Robyn Parets

Ian & Michelle Pearce

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Penn

Susan Pepper & William Harper◊◊ Mr. Frank Piddisi◊

Mr. Francis Pope Mr. John Proctor Mrs. Elinor Ratcliffe, C.M., O.N.L(hc)◊ Mr. Eddy Reitberger◊ Meghan Robertson◊

Dr. Gail Robinson

Ms. Sandra Shaul Mrs. Heather Sheehan◊◊ Mrs. Hilary H. Short◊ Mrs. Stanislawa Skrok◊◊ Ms. Ibolya Smith◊◊

Elaine Solway◊◊

Mr. Timothy Spain◊

Mr. & Ms. Alan Stewart◊ Mr. Paul Straatman and Mr. Shane Toland Dr. Olga Streltchenko

Judith & Burton Tait◊◊

Mr. Almos Tassonyi & Ms. Maureen Simpson◊

Gloria Thompson

Ms. Jennifer Tory◊◊

Gail Vanstone◊

Ms. Margaret M. Walker

Lyn M. Westwood◊◊

Kevin Coombs & Teri Worthington Coombs◊◊

Ms. Catherine Yolles

Three Anonymous Donors

Michelle Adamski

Agg Family Giving

Vanessa Alexander◊

Dr. Vina Alexopoulou

Mrs. Lyla Allan◊◊

Edgars & Selga Apse◊◊

Mr. David C. Archer*

Ms. Noreen Arnold

Ms. Karen Atkin◊◊

Hildred Babb

Michael Barkley & Gary Burrows◊◊

Earl and Elizabeth Barnsley◊◊

Ms. Jacqueline Bart

Christopher & Christina Begy◊◊

Mr. Rafael Bergamasco and Ms. Anabella Wainberg

Ms. Lynn Bevan◊

Violet W. Bielski, K.C.◊

Tom Bilenkey◊◊

Ms. Binks & Mr. Collier◊

Kim Birchard & Carol Dorman◊◊

Ms. Katherine Bischoping◊◊

Dr. & Mrs. Ian Blumer◊◊

Staunton Bowen

Mrs. Johanna Brett◊

Mrs. Donna Brownlee◊

Mr. & Mrs. David C. Brownlow◊

Ms. Mary Budd◊

Rev. Canon Michael Burgess◊◊

Ian & Jenny Burns◊◊

Ms. Michele Bussieres

Dr. Brian Butler◊

Kathleen Butterfield◊

Mr. and Ms. Anthony Campea◊

Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Eleanor Carpen◊◊

Ms. Carly Chalmers

Mr. Alexander Chapman◊

Mrs. Beverley Chernos◊

Ms. Michelle Christian Ms. Jean Clark◊

Mr. Maurice J. Clement◊◊

Ms. Donna Climie

Zane & Joan Cohen◊◊

Ms. Judith C. Cole◊

Mrs. Sydne Conover Taggart◊

Ms. Lynn Copeland◊◊

Mrs. Joy Coupey◊

Alice Court

Ms. Joanne Crookshank◊◊

Ms. Lisa Cunningham

Roger Kenrick◊◊

Mr. & Ms. David Currie◊◊

Mrs. Elizabeth Davidson◊◊

Mrs. Sharon Davis

Ms. Anne Day◊◊

Mrs. Linda De Bathe

Ms. Frances Deacon◊◊

Helena Debnam

Mrs. Saira Deen-Zammit◊◊

Ms. Reva Devins

Mr. Colin R.C. Dobell◊◊

Mr. & Mrs. W. M. Dobell◊◊

Robert T.C. Dolan◊

Mrs. Lilliana Dominguez◊

Mr. Steven D. Donohoe◊◊

Louise & Jeffrey Eason◊

Ms. Susan Eastwood◊

Elcan Ridge Foundation

Margaret Fairman◊

Mrs. Laura Farquhar◊◊

Darcy & Sheila Farrell◊◊ Miss Nicole Feric◊

The Fiera Capital Foundation

Helena & David Fine◊◊

Mrs. Pat Fisher

Melissa Forstner & Steven Schwartz◊

Mrs. Carol & Mr. Peter Foster◊

Ms. Audrey Fox Ms. Devra Freedman◊◊

Mrs. Kathy Freeman◊

Mr. Robert & Mrs. Beverley Galamaga◊◊

Dr. Peter Galko◊◊

Ms. Pamela Gallagher◊◊

Ms. Wendy Glover◊

Ms. Nancy Goldsborough Mr. Richard Goodman◊◊

Dr. and Mrs. R.M. Gorcynski◊◊ Ms. Heather Gordon◊ Mr. Laurent Goulet◊◊ Dr. Noelle Grace◊

Mrs. Catherine Graham◊ Ms. Enid Grant◊

Mr. George Grant◊

Dr. Lorne Greenspan & Ms. Donna Cohen

Laura Groos

Colin Gruchy◊◊

Mr. & Mrs. Doug & Carol Hara◊

Ms. Anne Harker◊

Mrs. Joan E. Hart◊ Ms. Sherry Hatton◊ Ms. Mary Heather◊◊

Caroline L. Helbronner◊

In memory of Nik Radosevic E.A. Hergott

Ms. Susan Hill◊◊ Mr. Wayne Hill Dr. Gail Hirano

Mel Hogg◊

The Horn Section of the National Ballet Orchestra*◊◊

Richard & Susan Horner◊◊ Mrs. Aliza Hosiosky

Ms. Jill Humphries◊◊

Mr. C.R. Hunter◊◊

Ms. Catherine Irwin◊

Joanna Ivey* & Lorne Babiuk◊◊

Miss Deborah Ivison Ms. Louise Jacques Miss Karen & Mrs. Linda Javorski Dona H. R. Jayasinghe Ms. Judith Jensen

Alfred-Patrick Johnson Dr. and Mrs. A.E. Jones◊◊ Ms. Sylvia Jones◊

Ms. Shirley Katz

Ms. Marilyn Kay Richards◊◊ Ms. Claire Keeley◊◊

Sheryl Kennedy and Bill Fleury◊ Ms. Yasmine Kherraji

Carolyn Kinsley◊◊

Dr. Stephen Kish and Mrs. Lori Dixon

Mr. Aubrey A. Kissoon & Family◊

Carol Kleinfeldt & Roman Mychajlowycz◊◊

Mr. Carl Knipfel◊

Ms. Deborah L. Knuff

Heli Kopti◊◊

Catherine Kourkounakis◊

Jaroslaw Kozlowski & Andrew Gotowiec Dr. Milos Krajny

Paul Lane

John and Ann Lang◊◊ Karen Lapointe◊◊

Miss Nancy Lavalle

Mrs. Carolyn Lawson◊◊ Ms. Catherine Lazier◊

Ms. Lea Anne Leavens◊◊

Ms. Josee Ledoux

Dr. Connie Lee

Mr. Yakov Lerner◊* Mrs. Linda LeRoux◊ Claire LeVern Delves

Mr. Douglas Lowry◊◊

Hubert Lum & Eve Leyerle◊

Mrs. Carole Lusby◊◊

Ms. Sharon Lymer◊◊

Ms. Donnalu F. Macdonald◊◊

Ms. Nancy MacDonald◊◊

Mr. John MacIver◊◊

Ms. Nancy Macken◊◊

Ms. Tracy MacMaster◊

Miss Laurie Markus◊◊

Ms. Joanna Martin◊◊

Patricia L. Martin◊◊

Ms. Mokry & Mr. Mason Mrs. Christine Mcallister Dr. Hooley McLaughlin

Amy McMullen* & Andrew McMullen

Robin Melnick◊◊

Ms. Maria Mesaros

Ingrid & Dan Mida◊

Ms. Gisele Miller

Colin & Meta Mills◊◊

Lynne & Paul Milnes◊◊

Ms. Patricia Monger & Mr. Ralph Pudritz◊

Veena Mosur

Mr. Julian N. Mulock◊

Ms. and Mr. Michele Myrah◊◊

Lily Ng Mr. Liviu Constantin Nicolescu Dr. Kirsten Niles

Dr. Jean O'Grady◊

Ms. Janice Oliver◊

Alfred Page & Anne Donaldson-Page◊

Mr. Christopher Palin & Ms. Susan Middleton◊◊

Mr. Bruce Palmer

Mr. John A. Parker

Ms. Marygail Parker

Ms. Lesley Paterson◊

Ms. Sarah Paul

PayPal Giving Fund Canada

Nicola Perpick & Alexandra Perpick◊

Mrs. Margaret Perschy◊◊

Elyssa Phillips◊

Mr. H R Martin Phills◊

Nina & Terry Picton◊◊

Ms. Gabrielle Pilla◊

Mr. Raymond Pladsen Mr. Archie Platt

Ms. Jackie Pollard◊

Ms. Kathleen E. Potter Mr. David Purcell◊

Chris Purdye and Judy Tse◊

Ms. Diana Raffman◊

Ms. Shanley Rainsberry

Dr. Gina S. Rakoff◊◊

Ms. Katharyn Rayner◊

Mr. Peter Reeve-Newson◊◊

Mr. Roy Reeves

Dr. Martha Richardson

Dr. Mary Robertson

Patricia Gooch Robertson◊

Edye Rome-Webster◊

Mrs. and Mr. Beatrice Rosmarin

Ms. Angela Rudden*

Mrs. Rhonda Ryman-Kane◊ Mr. Paul Sabourin

Mrs. Joan Sadleir◊◊

Mr. James Samuel◊

Dr. William Santo◊◊

Mr. and Mrs. David Saunders◊

Ms. Therese Sauriol

Ms. Elizabeth Savage

Dr. Michael Sayer◊

Dr. Jeff Sherman

Mrs. Christine Simpson◊◊ Ms. Miriam Skey◊◊

Dr. Anita Small

Ms. Louise Smith◊

Mr. Robert Smith◊

Ms. Jane Spicer

Jane Spooner◊◊

J.M. & Elaine Steiner◊◊

Mr. Kenneth Stephen◊◊

Cheryl E. Stephenson◊◊

Mr. David Stephenson◊

Ms. Sharon Stibbard◊

Mrs. Lauren Stiroh

Mrs. Louise Stokes◊◊

Ms. Tara Styles

Styles Family Foundation

Mr. Paul Tam

Mr. & Mrs. Herb Tanzer

Ms. Terry Tator◊

Ms. Agatha Tawaststjerna◊◊ Ms. Margaret Taylor-Sevier

Mrs. Helen Tazzman◊

Ms. Wendy Trainor◊

Mrs. H. Tregenza◊◊

Barbara & Marlow Tucker◊

Mr. Derek Twiss

Mr. Berton Ung◊

Paul & Alison Uys◊◊

Mr. Robert Vagners◊◊

Ms. Rachel van Geest

Ms. Carina Van Heyst◊◊

Mr. Robert Vanderloo◊

Ms. Evelyn Veale

Mr. Peter Verheyen◊

Martin Wade & Daniel Larocque

Mr. W.D. Waite◊◊

Mr. Alan Walker

The Very Reverend Peter Wall & Anne Harvey◊

Mr. John Walter◊◊

Ms. Donna Watts◊

Ms. Melanie Webb

Mrs. D Weir

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Weppler◊

Ms. Shelley Williams◊◊

Mary and Douglas Wilson◊

Hastings & Irene Withers◊

Mr. William Wray & Family◊

Ms. Judy Yamamoto◊◊ 10 Anonymous Donors

* Artists and Staff ◊ Donor for 10 or more years ◊◊ Donor for 20 or more years

The National Ballet of Canada thanks all Fouetté and Pirouette level donors for their generous support.

70 for 70 Campaign Success

We exceeded our goal! Thank you to the 94 individuals who became legacy donors during our 70 for 70 Campaign last season. By thoughtfully arranging gifts in their Wills, these donors will create a meaningful impact on the future of The National Ballet of Canada that reflects their commitment and love for the art form.

For more information about leaving a gift in your Will, please contact Richard Lefebvre at rlefebvre@national.ballet.ca or 416 345 9686 x324.

Artists of the Ballet in rehearsal. Photo by Karolina Kuras.

Turnout

(October 1, 2021 – September 30, 2022)

Aspire ($1,200 and above)

Mr. Simon Beck

Miss Becka Borody

Marie-Pierre Bélanger◊

Beth Borody

Classic Plus ($600)

Ms. Emily O'Keefe

Kiera Booth

Mr. Tim Dafoe

Ms. Sydney Davloor

* Artists and Staff

◊ Donor for 10 or more years

Ms. Marielle Bryck*

Julia Campbell

Ms. Katherine Ferreira

Miss Vicky Luo

Flora Do◊

Mr. Geoffrey Fulton◊

Emad Ghattas

Mr. Justin Harris

Ms. Elizabeth McNeil

Mr. Nicholas Melymuk*

Kristina Milbourn◊

Mr. Daniel Moulton

Ms. Anastassia Lavrinenko

Miss Kristina Mikloska

Kathy Robinson

Alysa Obertas

Named Funds

The National Ballet of Canada, Endowment Foundation provides financial strength and stability, helping to ensure the vitality and excellence of the National Ballet today and for generations to come. The National Ballet is grateful for the commitment and dedication of those who have established a Named Fund within the Endowment Foundation. (As of September 30, 2022)

The Isobel Allen New Creations Fund

The American Friends of Canada Dancer Fund

The Appel Family Fund in Honour of Bram & Bluma Appel

The John & Margaret Bahen Fund supports the company’s Canadian tours

The John & Claudine Bailey Fund

The Marion G. Bassett Fund

The David & Kim Beatty Fund

The BMO Financial Group Fund

The Mona Campbell Fund

The Pat Campbell Fund for Archives

The Dr. Ann E. Camps Fund for New Creations

The Walter Carsen New Creations Fund

The Judith & Marshall Cohen Fund

The Horst Dantz & Don Quick Dancer Wellness Fund

The Elizabeth & Ted Davidson Fund for Emerging Choreographers

The Jeanie and Ralph Davis Fund

The Paul & Adelle Deacon Fund

The Penelope Reed Doob Fund for New Creations

The Maureen & James Dunn Dancers’ Health and Wellness Fund

The Sandra Faire Fund

The Celia Franca Memorial Fund

The Geoffrey W. Fulton Fund for Supernumeraries

The Kevin & Roger Garland Fund

The Maxine Goldberg Fund for Apprentices

The Ira Gluskin & Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Fund

The Peter A. Goulding & Frank Barry White Fund

The Gulens Family Fund

The Herridge Family Fund

The Richard and Martha Hogarth Fund

The Sara Sylvia Holton Fund

The Barry Hughson Fund

The Gail Hutchison Fund

The Beryl & Richard Ivey Fund

The Hal Jackman Foundation Fund

The Anna & Don Johnson Fund

The Anna McCowan-Johnson Dance Accessibility Fund

The Anna McCowan-Johnson Director of Equity and Engagement Fund

The Anna McCowan-Johnson New Creations Fund

The Karen Kain Legacy Fund

The James Kudelka Fund

The Sonia & Arthur Labatt Fund

The Joyce Lee Memorial Fund

The Nancy, William, Tim & Elizabeth Logan Dancer Fund

The Joan & Jerry Lozinski Fund

The Joan & Jerry Lozinski Artistic Director Fund

The Sarah & David Macdonald Fund

The Sylvia M. McPhee Dancer Fund

The Sylvia M. McPhee Orchestra Fund

The Julie & Ted Medland Fund

The Anne & Charles Morison Orchestra Fund

The Nancy Pencer Fund

The Sandra & Jim Pitblado Fund

The Kenneth F. Read Fund

The Richard Rooney & Laura Dinner Fund

The J.M. Doc Savage Fund for the RBC Apprentice Programme

The Ada Slaight Fund

The Astrid Stec Fund for Apprentices

The Frances Stretton Dancer Fund

The Ann D. Sutton Costume Fund

The Fran Taubkin Dancer Fund

The TD Bank Group Orchestra Fund

The John Theo Fund for Dancers

The David Tory Memorial Fund

The Anne Twigge-Molecey Fund for Apprentices

The Andres Alexander Virro Memorial Fund

The Volunteer Committee Build-a-Ballet Fund

The Diana St. Barbe Weatherall Dancer Fund

The Judith R. Wilder Fund

The John H. Williams Fund

Jennifer Nagy One Anonymous Donor

Chen Xing

CELIA FRANCA SOCIETY

The Celia Franca Society is a celebrated community of donors who have included The National Ballet of Canada in their estate plans. Thank you, Celia Franca Society members, for your generosity and foresight.

The highlighted members (including 37 who prefer to remain anonymous) joined through the company’s transformational 70 for 70 Legacy Campaign. (As of September 30, 2022)

Elaine J. Adair

Vanessa Alexander

Reid Anderson* & Dieter Graefe

Debra J. Appleton

Edgars & Selga Apse

Emily Arbic

John Bailey* & Claudine Bailey

Lynly & Trevor Bailie

Earl and Elizabeth Barnsley

Gillian & Kenneth Bartlett

Florence Sharpe Barwell

Katherine Baxter

Violet W. Bielski, K.C.

John R. Birkett

Yeti Agnew & Christopher Birt

Katherine Bischoping

Jane Blackstone

Gail Boire

Mary Bond Becka Borody

Marnie Bracht

Douglas Bradley, Esq.

Freda & Allan Brender

Karen Brookfield

Reny Burrows

Jennifer Burton*

Pat Campbell

Suzanne Campbell

Virginia Campbell

Janet Casey

Olga Cerge

Professor Alfred L. Chan & Michael Farewell

Peng Chiang

Jane Darville & Dr. Skip Bassford

Elizabeth and Ted Davidson

Jeanie A. Davis*

Amanda Demers & Brian Collins

Reggie DesRoches

Denise Donlon

Sherry Taylor Drew*

Maureen & James Dunn

Judy Dunn

Judith Edmondson

Ardith Ekdahl & Elliott Whitby

Dena Feng

Gael Ferris

Lois J. Field

Beverley Flint

Alice H. Fox

Lorne Fox

Geoffrey W. Fulton

Kevin J. Garland*

Ann (Kadrnka) Garnet

Susan Gerhard

Peter A. Goulding & Frank Barry White

Laurent J. Goulet

Donald D. Grant

Colin Gruchy

Carol Guppy

Dr. Voldemars Gulens & Mrs. Brigita Gulens

Michael and Rita Hafeman

G. Michael Hale & C.N. Jacobsen

Joan E. Hart

Dr. Ronald M. Haynes

Peter Hendrick

W.R. Herridge*

Lewis Hertzman

James Hewson

Daniel & Loretta Hoffman

Ann Hogarth

Christopher E. Horne, Esq.

Margo Howard

Joan F. Ivory, C.M.*

Isabel & Alan Jackson

Elsa Jackson

Ishrani Jaikaran

Agnes Jenkinson

Greg W. Johns

Stephen Johnson

Robert D. Johnston*

Ron & Nancy Johnston

Leslie Jones

Karen Kain, C.C., LL.D., D.Litt., O.Ont.* & Ross Petty

Mitchell Kamiel & Dr. Caroline Newman

Saleem Kassum

Marisa Kelly*

James Kerr & J. Linden Best

Krista Kerr*

Janet Kim Elmer Rob Koppel

Kathryn Kossow

Andrea C. Kovats

Lindsay & Bud Kronenberg

Karen Lapointe

Samuel Laredo

William (Grit) Laskin, C.M. and Judith Laskin

Peggy Lau

Richard Lefebvre*

Monique Lemonnier

Ann Lenchak

Mary Jo Little

Valerie Archambeau Lockerbie

Nancy and William Logan

Chung-Yee Loo

Janice Waud Loper & Dr. Warren McKinnon

Doug Lowry

Jerry Lozinski* & Joan Lozinski

Carole Lusby

Dr. Geoffrey Lusignan

Sarah Macdonald & David Macdonald* Tim MacDonald* & Michelle Morin

Polly K. A. MacFarlane

Tracy MacMaster

Anne Martin

Sue Matthews*

Janice May Marcia McClung*

Barbara McKenney

Virginia McLaughlin

Hélène & Ray McLenaghan

Catherine McMillan

Sylvia M. McPhee

Nojan Medinei

Julie Medland* & Ted Medland

Stephanie Meredith

Elizabeth Metcalfe

Sigmund & Elaine Mintz

Jessica Moes*

Anne & Charles Morison

Sylvia Murray

L.J. Nagel & Stan Solomon

Marina Nawrocki*

Janis Neilson*

Laurie Nemetz*

Kiem Lan Njoo

Tony Sylvestre & Lisa North

Dorothy M. Parr

Dorothy & Roland Pfeiffer

Sandra Pitblado, C.M. & Jim Pitblado, C.M.*

Archie Platt

Dr. Linda Rabeneck

Dr. John Reeve-Newson

Peter Reeve-Newson

Diana Reitberger*

Eddy Reitberger

Glenn Renecker & Jens Rodberg

Margaret Riggin*

James Robertson & Jim Scott

Chris Robinson

Dr. Dale Robinson & Dr. Tania Bruno

Edye Rome-Webster

Victor & Bernice Royce

Arden R. Ryshpan

Marie Angela Sampson

Mary E. Sarjeant

Paul J. Savard

Richard Ira Saxe

Christine Scott

Rochelle Silverberg

Kerry Skinner & David Wistow

Katharine Smith

Robert Smith

Larry S. Snyder

Karen Sparks*

Carolyn & Gordon Ste. Croix Astrid M. Stec

S.M.S.

Cheryl E. Stephenson

Frances M. Stretton

Mark & Kim Surchin

Ann D. Sutton

Ronald Taber & Rowland Galbraith

Judith Tait

Veronica Tennant, C.C., LL.D, D. Litt*

Catherine Thomson

Nicholas Tomiuk

Lennox Toppin*

Diane Torney

Robin Vaile Robinson*

Marje Virro

Francine Walsh

Lenore Walters*

Germaine Warkentin, C.M., F.R.S.C. Ruth Watts-Gransden

Lyn Westwood

Karen Wierucki*

Jill C. Willard

Jill & Geoffrey Williams

Murray Winger

E. Anne Wingfield & Leonard Wilgus

P. Madeleine Wong

Ainslie Wood

Kevin Coombs & Teri Worthington Coombs*

Vivien M. Wu

Paul Zevenhuizen*

Veronica Zufelt*

58 Anonymous Donors

37 Anonymous Donors

STAFF

Board of Directors

As of October 19, 2022

Chair

Cornell Wright

Les Allt, ex officio

Nichole Anderson

Bergeron

Gail Appel

John Bailey

Jack Bertinshaw, ex officio

Raghunath Davloor

Laura Dinner

Flora Do

Cheryl Ferguson

Nancy Holland

Barry Hughson, ex officio Krista Kerr

Jen Lee Koss

Philip Lieberman

David Macdonald

Hope Muir, ex officio

LJ Nagel, ex officio Sandra Odendahl

Ed Ogonek, ex officio

Lisa Pearson

Gretchen Ross

Jenna Savella, ex officio David Seville

John B. Simcoe Michelle Sinclair

Mavis Staines, C.M.,  ex officio

Michele Symons

Noreen Taylor, C.M. Karen Wierucki, ex officio Alexander Younger

Honourary Board

As of October 19, 2022

David Banks

David Binet

Judith Cohen

Judi Conacher Missy Crosbie Jeanie Davis

Sherry Taylor Drew James Fleck, O.C.

William Harris

William Herridge, Q.C. Donald K. Johnson, O.C. Lucille Joseph Jerry Lozinski

Sue Matthews

Paul O’Donoghue Rose Patten, O.C.

Aaron Regent Robin Robinson

Susan Scace

Noreen Taylor, C.M.

The National Ballet of Canada Board /Honourary Board Liaison

The National Ballet of Canada, Endowment Foundation Board of Directors

As of October 19, 2022

Chair David Macdonald

President Barry Hughson

Vice-President Hope Muir

Treasurer Amanda Ram

Director of Development Diana Reitberger, CFRE

Secretary Alexis Patch

David Banks John Braive Ed Esposto Cheryl Ferguson

Karen Kain, C.C., LL.D., D.Litt., O.Ont., Director Emerita Krista Kerr Sue Matthews James Pitblado, C.M. Cornell Wright

Leadership

Joan & Jerry Lozinski Artistic Director Hope Muir

Executive Director Barry Hughson

Music Director and Principal Conductor David Briskin

Artistic Director Emerita Karen Kain, C.C., LL.D., D.Litt., O.Ont.

Artistic

Senior Répétiteur Peter Ottmann

Rehearsal Director, Principal Coach Rex Harrington, O.C., D.Litt Xiao Nan Yu

Assistant Rehearsal Director Stephanie Hutchison

Artist-in-Residence Greta Hodgkinson, O.Ont.

Artistic Advisor Magdalena Popa

Choreographic Associates Robert Binet Guillaume Côté

Artistic Administrator Gerard Roxburgh

Senior Manager, Artistic Operations Jennifer Bennett Darbyshire

Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director and Administrative Associate Andreea Olteanu

Curator and Producer, CreativAction and Special Initiatives Robert Binet

Manager, Artistic Scheduling Sophie Letendre

Associate, Artistic Administration Sarita Dotan

Guest Répétiteurs The Collective Agreement Meredith Webster Concerto Julie Lincoln

Symphony in C Colleen Neary Joysanne Sidimus, M.S.M. Sofiane Sylve

MADDADDAM Jenny Tattersall

Anima Animus Rebecca Gladstone Christiane Marchant

Romeo and Juliet Aleksandar Antonijevic

Guest Teachers Felipe Diaz Jurgita Dronina Greta Hodgkinson Kevin Pugh Piotr Stanczyk Sofiane Sylve Tatiana Tchernova

Administration

Executive Assistant to the Executive Director and Board Liaison Alexis Patch Audience and Donor Services Associate Director, Audience and Donor Services Veronica McLellan

Manager, Ticket Operations Katy James Manager, Patron Services Anne Meighan

Assistant Patron Services Manager Heather Thompson

Audience and Donor Services Operations Supervisor Susie Eissler

Senior Representatives, Audience and Donor Services

Amanda Bolger Patty Pedersen

Receptionists Rochelle Gomes McKenzie Grey Carlos Lazaga Alannagh Maciw

Audience and Donor Services Representatives

Communications

Director of Marketing and Communications Belinda Bale

Associate Director, Communications and Content Strategy Catherine Chang Senior Manager, Sales and Marketing Victoria Munton-Davies

Archivist and Digital Asset Manager Katie Wilson

Video Editor, Web and Digital Media Manager Sean Leonard

Digital Content Producer Mallory Brown

Public Relations Specialist Anastasia Kolotova

Graphic Designer Klara Vanzella Yang

Graphic Design Consultant Carmen Wagner

Web and  E-Communications Coordinator Jade Araya

Marketing Coordinator Nadiya Reid

Social Media and Communications Coordinator Lindsay McCarley

Public Relations Intern Alaha Husseinzadah

Dancer Wellness Programme

Director of Dancer Wellness Marla Pichler

Company Sports Medicine Physicians Dr. Michael Clarfield Dr. Ryan Eardley Dr. Julia Hamilton

Company Orthopaedic Surgeons Dr. Norah Matthies Dr. Darrell Ogilvie-Harris

Company Athletic Therapists

Paul Papoutsakis Barb Paraskevakos Gian-Luca Perfetti

Company Physiotherapists Ginette Hamel Patrick Lavoie

Company Massage Therapists

Cesar Cruz Ron Mulesa Danielle Tobias

Company Psychiatrists Dr. Marie-Claire Bourque Dr. Pat Colton

Clinical Social Workers/ Psychotherapists Tammy Baruch Lesley Lustig

Company Foot Specialist/Chiropodist Dr. Nicholas Durand, D.Pod.M.

Urgent Care and Medcan Liaison Dr. Janice Weiss

Resident Movement and Pilates Specialist Je-an Salas

Naturopathic Doctor

Dr. Melissa Piercell

The National Ballet of Canada is grateful to the Midtown Sports Medicine Clinic (150 Eglinton Avenue East, Toronto); the University Health Network, Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine; and the Medcan Clinic (150 York Street, Toronto) for their continued support of the Dancer Health and Wellness Programme; and to those physicians who have generously donated their time to The National Ballet of Canada.

Development

Director of Development

Diana Reitberger, CFRE

Assistant to the Director of Development Liza Beharry

Associate Director, Major Gifts Joanna Ivey

Associate Director, Individual and Legacy Giving

Richard Lefebvre, CFRE

Senior Manager, Development Communications

John Hart

Senior Manager, Development Operations

Leah Heidenheim

Manager, Major Gifts Marielle Bryck

Manager, Special Events and Corporate Partnerships

Rebecca Hodge Manager, Patrons’ Council Nicholas Melymuk Senior Writer

Caroline Dickie Officer, Development Communications Rhea Daniels

Officer, Major Gifts Kelsey Muldoon Officer, Turnout & Patrons’ Council Marisa Kelly

Officer, Friends’ Corps & Ballet365 Joanne Kwok

Officer, Legacy Giving & Endowment Foundation Amy McMullen*

Officer, Special Events Jessica Worosz

Data Analyst Sara Motalebi

Coordinator, Special Events and Corporate Partnerships

Zoe Favrin

Gift Management Coordinator

Lucy White

Education and Community Engagement

Senior Manager, Education and Community Engagement Lisa Robinson

Director, In Studio Kate Kernaghan

Coordinator, Education and Community Engagement

Sakhshi Khanduja

Senior Teaching Artist Annemarie Cabri

Finance

Chief Financial Officer Amanda Ram

Payroll and Benefits Manager

Jenny Mah

General Accountants Winnie Li Demitrios Prevenas Markus Thiart

Human Resources

Director, Human Resources Kathleen Matatya

Senior Officer, Human Resources Julian Whitaker

Human Resources Coordinator Erika Pugsley

Information Technology

Director of Technology Christopher Sonnemann

Associate Director, Software and Applications Mohiuddin Faruqe

Senior Manager, Web Technology Services

Steve Cunningham

Senior Manager of Technology Andrew Anderson

Solutions Developer Kruti Shah*

Business Analyst Bethany Bleile

Systems Coordinator Maninder Singh Sekhon

Maintenance

Facilities Manager

Emil Mishriky

Building Maintenance Supervisor Henry Martins

Cleaners

Violeta Parreno Lawrence Puig Willie Santiago

Music

Pianists

Edward Connell Andrei Streliaev Zsanna Vaszilenko Zhenya Vitort

Orchestra Personnel Manager and Music Administrator

Raymond Tizzard

Music Librarian Jacques Forest

Noreen Taylor, C.M. & David Staines, C.M., O.Ont Conductor-in-Residence Maria Seletskaja

Production

Director of Production Barney Bayliss

Associate Director of Production Yvette Drumgold Technical Director Peter Eaton Stage Managers Jeff Morris Liliane Stilwell

Assistant Stage Manager Troy Taylor

Lighting Coordinator Jeff Logue Sound Coordinator Robert DiVito

Technical Direction Intern Kilian Dedek

Production Workshop

Head Carpenter Sandy Middleton Assistant Head Carpenter James Fulton Shop Technician Chuck Theil

Carpenters Jeff Carson Mike Ellenton Anton Feitelberg Ron Gorveatt Melissa Grandovec Paul Hopla Gordon Nesbitt Bob Purcell Andrew Walker

Scenery constructed at the Gretchen Ross Production Workshop by members of I.A.T.S.E. Local 58.

Property Supervisor John Miracle

Assistant Property Supervisor Christina Hantos

Head Scenic Artist Kelly Palmer

Assistant Head Scenic Artist Will Leskevich

Automation Consultant Ian Phillips

Orb Construction Scott Fleary Productions

Properties constructed at the Gretchen Ross Production Workshop by members of I.A.T.S.E. Local 828. Wardrobe

Wardrobe Supervisor Stacy Dimitropoulos

Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor Allie Marshall

Resident Cutters Christine Audet Marlee Bygate Christopher Read

Cutter Brenda Clarke

Assistant to Cutters Susan Howse

Resident Stitcher Lisa Novielli

Stitchers Victoria Arnold Deanna Brown Karen Hancock Samara McAdam Krista Nauman Paul Schofield Alicia Zwicewicz

Costume Rental Coordinator Bianca Laudadio

Footwear Coordinator Lacey Hammond Harrington

Footwear Inventory Coordinator Hollis Wilson

Wardrobe Coordinator Robyn Clarke

Assistant Wardrobe Coordinators Lauren Pietrowski* Emily Rogers

Hair and Make-up Coordinator Jacqueline Robertson Cull

Hair and Make-up Assistant Charlie Seminerio Milliners Jennifer Howard Monica Viani Millinery

Assistant Milliner/ Wardrobe Assistant Kira Duff

Textile Art Sue Willis Pigoon Production Paragon Innovation Group

Production Travelling Crew Head Carpenter Jim Nutt

Head Electrician Ashley Rose

Property Master Michael Ellenton

Head of Sound Ron Gorveatt Assistant Carpenter/ Flyman Scott Clarke

Assistant Carpenter Cory Hudson Assistant Electricians William Fallon Cecilia Waszczuk

Video Technician Kimmel Stephenson Wardrobe Head Grant Heaps

Assistant Wardrobe Head Carrie Cooley Barbour Hair and Make-up Head Jillian Walker

Footwear Assistant Leslie Brown

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