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She was named Top 30 Under 30 by Maclean’s Magazine and won the Outstanding Profile – Arts and Best of the Best Awards at the Mandarin Profile Awards in Toronto.
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It’s game time when she wakes up.
Typical meals and snacks for the dancer include a sandwich or salad, a protein (like grilled chicken), nuts and some carbohydrates for energy. The company recently returned from a triumphant tour to Paris where audiences leapt to their feet after each performance.
MAD HOT BALLET: Desert Dream Raises Over $1.2 Million
by A.A.
Cristi - Jun 14, 2019
Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, and Executive Director Barry Hughson today announced that MAD HOT BALLET: Desert Dream raised over $1.2 million.
National Ballet of Canada Announces Principal Casting for THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
by Julie Musbach - Feb 23, 2018
Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, today announced the principal casting for Rudolf Nureyev's landmark production of The Sleeping Beauty.
The annual fundraising gala took place on June 12 in Toronto at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. There, she’ll have another light meal (like a soup or noodles) that her husband has waiting for her. Even though she lives about an hour away from the Four Seasons Centre in Thornhill, she prefers to take public transit to work, wanting to avoid driving downtown Toronto.
This program offers something for everyone from classical choreography, to contemporary and everything in between.
National Ballet of Canada's THE NUTCRACKER is Selling Fast! It’s an amazing feeling.” And after? Prior to this appointment, Nan served as Ballet Mistress and assisted choreographers on many ballets.
The Nutcracker is onstage December 9 30, 2017 and tickets are selling fast. Besides, she adds, this way she can read or listen to an audiobook or some music. “The warm up has become part of the performance, it’s second nature.”
Yu adds that she has no rituals before the show starts, but even after more than 20 years performing, “there are always a little bit of butterflies in my tummy before I go on, for sure.
The annual fundraising gala took place last night in Toronto at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. She joined the National Ballet in 1996 and became a Principal Dancer in 2001.
With the National Ballet, she has performed lead roles in The Merry Widow, Balanchine’s Don Quixote, Four Temperaments, Swan Lake, Onegin, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, Theme and Variations, The Nutcracker, Apollo, The Firebird, Song of the Earth, Opus 19/The Dreamer and Voluntaries.
Nan created the role of the Mother in James Kudelka’s The Contract (The Pied Piper), as well as roles in Matjash Mrozewski’s Monument and Wolf’s Court, Jean-Pierre Perreault’s The Comforts of Solitude and Dominique Dumais’ one hundred words for snow.
To soften each pair (to avoid cramping), but still leave them hard enough so that she can’t feel the floor and they’ll support her feet. MADE IN CANADA stimulates the imagination with a program of three invigorating Canadian ballets - Robert Binet's The Dreamers Ever Leave You, James Kudelka's The Four Seasons, and Crystal Pite's Emergence.
She danced with the National Ballet from 1996 to 2019, becoming Principal Dancer in 2001.
“We need constant maintenance so that our bodies are on the top of their game.”
Born in Dalian, China, Yu has been a member of the Canadian company since 1996. to get breakfast started for her two daughters (who are 6 and 13) before taking them to school. The season resulted in the largest grossing box office in the company's history and an operating surplus for the eighth consecutive year.
This is where Yu will fit in the carbohydrate—typically a pasta—she made earlier in the day.