After more than 50 years with @nationalballet, Canada’s most celebrated ballerina, Karen Kain, is bidding farewell with her new vision for Swan Lake – debuting in June.🩰
The @nationalballet has not premiered a new Swan Lake in more than two decades. Ms. Kain first danced the demanding dual role of the Swan Queen Odette and Black Swan Odile at just 19 years old. tgam.ca/3Nop2Fd
Rehearsals for #SwanLakeNBC were supposed to have begun two years ago, before COVID-19. “It’s been difficult. I think I stopped believing it was ever really going to happen,” said Ms. Kain. tgam.ca/3Nop2Fd
It was the first ballet Ms. Kain danced with Rudolf Nureyev – the beginning of a formative partnership – and when she celebrated 25 years with @nationalballet, Swan Lake was a natural choice for her anniversary performance. tgam.ca/3Nop2Fd
Every Swan Lake descends from a 19th-century production based on a German fairy tale. Ms. Kain’s version was inspired by Erik Bruhn’s 1967 production, but much about #SwanLakeNBC will be distinctly hers. tgam.ca/3Nop2Fd
Ms. Kain started dancing @NBS_ENB as a child. Her rise @nationalballet coincided with a ballet boom in the '70s-’80s, but she also witnessed the company’s financial crises first-hand. As artistic director, she made it her mission to build up an endowment. tgam.ca/3Nop2Fd
With so much time consumed by fundraising, Ms. Kain rarely had the chance to be in the studio. It’s one reason she had never directed a ballet before #SwanLakeNBC. tgam.ca/3Nop2Fd
If Ms. Kain’s production is a success with audiences, it will be in heavy rotation @nationalballet, appearing every couple years. Ms. Kain isn’t cutting ties with the company, but after spending most of her life consumed by ballet, she’s ready for a break. tgam.ca/3Nop2Fd
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The fiddlehead is a delicate thing. It can be harvested for only a few weeks a year and must be picked by hand. But the reward, for those who forage them, is a grassy fern that tastes like a cross between asparagus and spinach.
Brenda Jonca has a sixth sense for tracking fiddleheads in New Brunswick. The 64-year-old has agreed, somewhat reluctantly, to show us a patch hidden deep behind a farmer’s field, where only a handful of people know there’s good fiddlehead picking. tgam.ca/3sKCWcM
Ms. Jonca knows these places because this land is a part of her. She grew up in Evandale as one of eight children and would often follow her father for long family picking trips into the woods. tgam.ca/3sKCWcM
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🤖 There are now signs that Canadian companies are investing to boost productivity: they’re acquiring robots and boosting automation. tgam.ca/3Nuq82k
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Sorting and tossing all that stuff is a lucrative business. Storage Vault, the country’s largest publicly traded storage business, went from owning 10 locations in 2014 to 197 in 2022. The company’s share price has soared from 50 cents to more than $6. tgam.ca/3Ga2NAA
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📱 Hackers are targeting people on social media for a few reasons: accessing one person’s account connects them to an entire network of followers, and they’re less likely to attract police attention.
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As warmer weather starts to creep across the nation, so does the desire to explore what Canada has to offer. In the @globeandmail’s fifth annual Canadian #travel guide, we cross the country discovering new adventures and revisiting old favourites. ⬇️tgam.ca/39CJ4gv
In Brookvale, Prince Edward Island, mountain biking is the name of the game, with 60 kilometres of trails lovingly maintained, with convenient luxury camping accommodations nearby. tgam.ca/3wEoVyC
In Skoki Valley, Alberta, a local outfitter got exclusive access to bring travellers to a previously difficult-to-traverse part of Banff National Park for secluded hiking and views. tgam.ca/3lv0nmA
Mariupol fell under Russian control this week. Former residents reflect on the once-flourishing city, the harrowing tales of escape and everything that was lost.
The strategic port city is now synonymous with shattered buildings, thousands of deaths and the fierce resistance put up by the last Ukrainian fighters.