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In celebration of the company’s 75th anniversary season, the 2026/27 season will feature three Sharing the Stage initiatives, with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre in St. Catharines and Ballet BC in Vancouver.
Sharing the Stage first began with outdoor performances at Harbourfront Centre featuring such companies as Compañía Carmen Romero, Esie Mensah Creations, Holla Jazz, Human Body Expression, Little Pear Garden Dance Company, Lua Shayenne Dance Company, Rock Bottom Movement, Samantha Sutherland and Tanveer Alam. The programme expanded to include a performance with Nova Dance in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts and Rainbow on Mars, a collaboration with Outside the March and Peripheral Theatre, at the Ada Slaight Hall at Daniels Spectrum. The 75th anniversary will mark the first time Sharing the Stage will be presented nationally.
September 19, 2026 Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra
Second Soloist Keaton Leier returns to his hometown of Saskatoon to curate a special evening with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra on September 19, 2026. Leier will perform alongside other National Ballet artists a selection of works from the traditional and contemporary repertoire to music performed by the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Judith Yan.
October 24, 2026 FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
The National Ballet will perform for the first time ever at St. Catharines’ FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre’s SPARK Gala on October 24, 2026 in Patridge Hall, dancing the balcony pas de deux from John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet and The Future at 75, a special performance by The National Ballet of Canada RBC Apprentices.
March 6, 2027 Ballet BC
To mark both the National Ballet’s 75th anniversary and Ballet BC's 40th, Principal Dancers Genevieve Penn-Nabity and Ben Rudisin will perform On the Nature of Daylight choreographed by Resident Choreographer David Dawson on the Ballet BC stage for two performances on March 6, 2027. The moving pas de deux is set to music by world renowned composer Max Richter and will be performed for the first time since its Canadian premiere at MAD HOT BALLET in 2025.
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Photo Credits:
Tirion Law. Photo by Karolina Kuras.
Keaton Leier. Photo by Karolina Kuras.
Former Principal Dancer Great Hodgkinson in Romeo and Juliet. Photo by David Cooper.
Genevieve Penn Nabity and Ben Rudisin in On The Nature of Daylight. Photo by Bruce Zinger