Canada's National Ballet School expands.Canada's National Ballet School The National Ballet School of Canada is located in Toronto, Ontario. The National provides a full-time program which combines classical ballet training with academic education from Grades 6 through 12 at its boarding school. opened the first phase of an ambitious $80 million [CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. $100 million] expansion project November 30. The 46-year-old school, headed by Mavis Staines, is training ground for many who later joined National Ballet of Canada National Ballet of Canada, the leading Canadian ballet company. Based in Toronto, it was founded (1951) by Celia Franca (1921–2007) and modeled on Sadler's Wells (now the Royal Ballet). and other companies around the world. Alumni include NBC notables Karen Kain, James Kudelka, Rex Harrington, and Veronica Tennant, plus current members of The Royal Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet, American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre, one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 under the direction of Lucia Chase and Rich Pleasant. , San Francisco Ballet San Francisco Ballet, or SFB, is a San Francisco, USA based ballet company, founded in 1933 as part of San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, where it is directed by Helgi Tomasson. , and Boston Ballet. NBS had long outgrown its original downtown Toronto campus, with 154 youngsters enrolled in its integrated academic and dance program for grades 6-12, and another 45 in its post-secondary and teacher-training programs. The new facility links two renovated heritage buildings with a bright six-story modern structure. The result is 180,000 square feet of classrooms, labs, music room, dance studios--12 in all--and communal areas. The heart of the complex--a three-story atrium known as the Town Square--opens onto a library and cafeteria and connects directly to a 297-seat theater. Phase two, scheduled for completion in 2007, will see the original campus reborn as a new student residence. |
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