{"id":71454,"date":"2021-06-22T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T19:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=71454"},"modified":"2021-06-22T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T19:35:49","slug":"scoop-meet-national-ballets-new-principal-dancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/06\/22\/scoop-meet-national-ballets-new-principal-dancers\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Meet The National Ballet\u2019s New Principal Dancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/national_ballet-2021-22_dancers.jpg\" alt=\"national_ballet-2021-22_dancers\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The National Ballet of Canada has announced the list of dancers promoted for the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principal Dancers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Koto Ishihara<\/li>\n<li>Siphesihle November<\/li>\n<li>Tina Pereira<\/li>\n<li>Ben Rudisin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>First Soloist<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeannine Haller<\/li>\n<li>Calley Skalnik<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Second Soloist<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brenna Flaherty<\/li>\n<li>Noah Parets<\/li>\n<li>Genevieve Penn Nabity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What they\u2019re saying:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a year unlike any other with immense challenges for our company but I take great pride in the spirit with which our dancers have persevered and what we have accomplished despite all of the obstacles,\u201d said <strong>Karen Kain<\/strong>, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada. \u201cIt is my great pleasure to recognize the contribution of these exceptional artists with promotions for the 2021\/22 season.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Two more mentionables:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>The National ballet has awarded <strong>Selene Guerrero-Trujillo<\/strong> and <strong>Alexander Skinner<\/strong> with the Patron Awards of Merit. The awards include a cash prize of $1,500. Because some eligible dancers were not able to perform as much, the award criteria was amended to honor two dancers who went above and beyond.<\/li>\n<li>A special parting nod to dancer <strong>Nan Wang<\/strong> who will be retiring from the Corps de ballet after 17 years.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Ballet of Canada has announced the list of dancers promoted for the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":71455,"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":[27852],"yst_prominent_words":[16235,13340,14397,7070,8399,7203,10457,13922,6687,7552,9105],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/national_ballet-2021-22_dancers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-iAu","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71454"}],"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=71454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71456,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71454\/revisions\/71456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71454"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=71454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}