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James Kudelka, now in his ninth season as artistic director of The National Ballet of Canada, has transformed a company once known for its stately productions of the classics into a dynamic, risk-taking, forward-looking troupe. At the core a classicist, albeit with modernist leanings, Kudelka has not abandoned tradition but given the Toronto-based company a fresh image--youthful, creative and adventurous.
Kudelka has put a personal stamp on restagings of such classics as The Nutcracker (1995), Swan Lake (1999) and The Firebird (2000). He has added major Balanchine ballets to the company's store of works by such 20th century masters as Ashton, Cranko, Forsythe, MacMillan, and Tudor and has ambitions to build "a Robbins gallery." Meanwhile, he has prodded his dancers into absorbing new movement idioms by commissioning works from Canadian modern dance choreographers Serge Bennathan and the late Jean-Pierre Perreault, and he has fostered choreographers from within NBC, such as Dominique Dumais and Matjash Mrozewski.
Kudelka, 49, is the first choreographer of international distinction to head NBC. He began choreographing for the...
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