Looking Back on the 2016/2017 Swan Lake Tour
The 2016/2017 Swan Lake Tour was a huge success and one of the biggest in CBJ history. One of our greatest successes of the tour was the inclusion of over 360 […]
First Time Around: Akari Fujiwara’s CBJ debut season
Akari Fujiwara, one of our 2016-2017 RBC Apprentices, has just finished her debut season with CBJ, which included her first tour across Canada! We sat down with Akari to learn about […]
Canada’s Ballet Jörgen Kilometer Contest 2017
Elise Tigges: GBC Centre for Arts, Design and Information Technology Valedictorian 2017!
Elise Tigges is the first dancer to be selected as Valedictorian for the George Brown College Centre for Arts, Design & Information Technology, so to celebrate her honour we sat […]
A Fond Farewell: Celebrating Jane Wooding
Jane Wooding instructs George Brown Dance student Jerry Burchill. We say a fond farewell to long-time faculty member Jane Wooding after teaching with Canada’s Ballet Jörgen and George Brown Dance […]
En Route: Closing this season with a successful tour in Newfoundland
CBJ dancer Gustavo Hernandez with young audiences at Ballet101: Introduction to Dance at the Corner Brook Public Library. Port aux-Basques, NL It is with great pride that we closed […]
Coming Full Circle with Swan Lake on our East Coast Tour
Artistic Director Bengt Jörgen with Symphony Nova Scotia Music Director Bernhard Gueller, at a creative session in 2012. We have just finished four performances in Halifax with Symphony Nova […]
Celebrating CBJ Principal Dancer Hiroto Saito
We recently performed at our Toronto home for 3 sold out shows from March 24 to 26. It is always a treat to perform at home and these shows carry additional significance as […]
Thank You, Saskatchewan!
Thank you for welcoming Canada’s Ballet Jörgen to Saskatchewan! It has been an incredible tour and here are some highlights: • A debut performance of Swan Lake in Regina and […]
En Route: Performing for Newcomers Across the Country
As part of The Welcome to Canada fund from Canada Council for the Arts, CBJ offered access tickets to Syrian refugee families in 8 cities on our tour. Company dancer […]