Ballet Notes
Artists of the Ballet
Overview
The National Ballet is continually expanding this section of our website to provide current and interesting resources. This information will be of interest to those new to the art form as well as seasoned ballet-goers. Teachers, students, families and fans of all ages will certainly find these Ballet Notes, study guides and activities valuable and entertaining.
Published exclusively by The National Ballet of Canada, Ballet Notes are detailed guides to the company's dynamic repertoire. Whether you are a first-time ballet goer or a long-time subscriber Ballet Notes offer you fascinating and enlightening information that will enrich your ballet experience.
Current Season
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Fall 2009
- Cinderella (Note from June 2008)
- Chroma & Serenade & Emergence
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Winter 2010
- Erik Bruhn Prize
(Please check back later for Ballet Notes) - Don Quixote
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Summer 2010
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(Please check back later for Ballet Notes) - Mozartiana & Song of a Wayfarer & In The Upper Room
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Archives
All documents are PDF
- 24 Preludes by Chopin
- Alice
- Apollo
- Balanchine's Don Quixote
- Carmen
- Cinderella
- The Contract (The Pied Piper)
- Cruel World
- A Delicate Battle
- Désir
- DEXTRIS
- Emergence
- The End
- Etudes
- The Fiddle and The Drum
- Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan
- A Footstep of Air
- The Four Seasons
- The Four Temperaments
- Gazebo Dances
- Giselle
- Glass Pieces
- IN COLOUR
- Intermezzo
- In the Night
- In the Upper Room
- An Italian Straw Hat
- Jewels
- Madame Butterfly
- The Merry Widow
- Monument
- Musings
- The Nutcracker
- Onegin
- One Hundred Words for Snow
- Opus 19/The Dreamer
- Petrouchka
- Polyphonia
- Pur ti Miro
- Romeo and Juliet
- Rooster
- La Ronde
- Rubies
- the second detail
- The Seagull
- Serenade
- Skin Divers
- The Sleeping Beauty
- Soldiers' Mass
- Song of the Earth
- Stravinsky Violin Concerto
- A Suite of Dances
- Swan Lake
- La Sylphide
- Les Sylphides
- Symphony in C
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Theme and Variations
- There, below
- Voluntaries
- Watch_her
- West Side Story Suite
- Wolf's Court