The Winter’s Tale, National Ballet of Canada

By Naomi Mori, 22 December 2015

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“fabulous production design and score, world-class performers, and great storytelling”

Reviewed at Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto on 19 November 2015

The Winter's Tale (Christopher Wheeldon)

National Ballet of Canada

Bob Crowley, Set Designer

Natasha Katz, Lighting Designer

Daniel Brodie, Video

Piotr Stanczyk, Dancer

Evan Mckie, Dancer

Maddox McGee, Dancer

Hannah Fischer, Dancer

Jurgita Dronina, Dancer

Heather Ogden, Dancer

Jillian Vanstone, Dancer

Rui Huang, Dancer

Elena Lobsanova, Dancer

Naoya Ebe, Dancer

Skylar Campbell, Dancer

Dylan Tedaldi, Dancer

Harrison James, Dancer

Brendan Saye, Dancer

Felix Paquet, Dancer

Xiao Nan Yu, Dancer

Svetlana Lunkina, Dancer

Tanya Howard, Dancer

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Naomi Mori

Naomi is a blogger living in Tokyo and travels frequently to see ballet. She is a law graduate of Waseda University and a former film publicist, film critic and IT business researcher/strategist. She blogs at La Dolce Vita in Japanese. She tweets about ballet as @naomip_86. and takes ballet class regularly

The Winter's Tale, National Ballet of Canada