The Nationwide Ballet of Canada has been nominated for 2 Olivier Awards for Greatest New Dance Manufacturing and Excellent Achievement in Dance. It’s a primary for the corporate, making the twin nomination much more spectacular.
Each nominations revolve across the Nationwide Ballet’s tour to London for performances at Sadler’s Wells in October 2024, and the manufacturing Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada, that includes Angels’ Atlas by Crystal Pite, Ardour by James Kudelka and islands by Emma Portner.
“I’m thrilled to study The Nationwide Ballet of Canada has been nominated for 2 Olivier Awards for the primary time in its historical past. I couldn’t be prouder of this unbelievable firm and the affect our performances had on London audiences. To see our work acknowledged and celebrated in this manner is extremely humbling. It meant a lot to me to deliver this program of all Canadian choreographers to Sadler’s Wells, a venue that was my creative residence for a few years in my early profession,” mentioned Hope Muir, Joan and Jerry Lozinski Creative Director of The Nationwide Ballet of Canada.
The Oliviers
The Olivier Awards are given out by the Society of London Theatre annually. They acknowledge excellence in skilled theatre in varied classes. The Awards had been initially established in 1976 below the slightly extra prosaic title of the Society of West Finish Theatre Awards. They had been renamed after iconic British actor Laurence Olivier in 1984.
The 2025 nominees embrace a peppering of acquainted names, like John Lithgow and Adrien Brody, who’re each vying for the Greatest Actor award.
Within the Greatest new dance manufacturing class, Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada — Pite/Kudelka/Portner by the Nationwide Ballet of Canada at Sadler’s Wells is competing in opposition to three different productions. All staged at Sadler’s Wells, they embrace items by the famend Hofesh Shechter Firm, A.I.M by Kyle Abrahams, and one other work co-choreographed by Canadian artist Crystal Pite together with Kidd Pivot and Jonathan Younger.
Tom Visser is nominated for Excellent achievement in dance for his lighting design of Angels’ Atlas as a part of Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada. Different nominees in the identical class embrace performers Sarah Chun and Eva Yerbabuena.
This 12 months’s Olivier Awards will happen on the Royal Albert Corridor in London on Sunday, April 6.
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Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.