{"id":70958,"date":"2021-04-29T15:40:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=70958"},"modified":"2021-04-29T15:40:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:40:45","slug":"scoop-national-ballets-karen-kain-gets-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/04\/29\/scoop-national-ballets-karen-kain-gets-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | National Ballet\u2019s Karen Kain Gets Her Own Stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Karan_kain-stamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The National Ballet of Canada has revealed Artistic Director Karen Kain and prominent dancer\/choreographer Fernand Nault will be honoured with commemorative stamps.<\/p>\n<p>Canada Post will issue the stamps to honour their extraordinary careers. They will be permanent-rate stamps that currently run 92\u00a2 each. The stamp issue shows a 2020 copyright date, which suggests they were postponed for a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanadian ballet dancers are revered the world over \u2014 and beloved here at home, which is why we\u2019re celebrating the careers of two of our country\u2019s ballet legends,\u201d said Canada Post stamp services director Jim Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>The stamps will be available at post offices across the country on International Dance Day, April 29, 2021.<br \/>\nThe image features Karen as the black swan Odile in Swan Lake, a significant role and ballet from her career.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>You know you\u2019ve made it when\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Other Canadian artists commemorated with stamps include the Oliver Jones, Oscar Peterson, Maureen Forrester, Jon Vickers, Edward Johnson, L\u00e9opold Simoneau, Raoul Jobin, Gerald Finley, Adrianne Pieczonka, Irving Guttman, Leonard Cohen, Paul Anka, Anne Murray, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Kate &amp; Anna McGarrigle, Tragically Hip, Guess Who, Charles-\u00c9mile Gadbois, Emma Albani, and Healey Willan.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily\u00a0\u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bowtie.mailbutler.io\/tracking\/hit\/583e6ce0-dfd0-48be-8a33-61256b3c58e3\/a01723d1-1d1d-44ee-9d0c-779ed93a798c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><i>HERE<\/i><\/span><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Ballet of Canada has revealed Artistic Director Karen Kain and prominent dancer\/choreographer Fernand Nault will be honoured with commemorative stamps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":70959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,445,20,39,63],"tags":[39654,9597,2346],"yst_prominent_words":[13340,7070,7140,11842,6985,34859,10616,15617,35340],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Karan_kain-stamp.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-isu","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70960,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70958\/revisions\/70960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70958"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=70958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}