{"id":72567,"date":"2021-10-12T15:46:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T19:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=72567"},"modified":"2021-10-12T15:46:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T19:46:27","slug":"scoop-principal-dancer-retires-national-ballet-canada-22-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/10\/12\/scoop-principal-dancer-retires-national-ballet-canada-22-years\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Principal Dancer Retires From The National Ballet Of Canada After 22 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/National_Ballet_Of_Canada-Jillian_Vanstone.jpg\" alt=\"National_Ballet_Of_Canada-Jillian_Vanstone\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The National Ballet of Canada has confirmed Principal Dancer Jillian Vanstone will retire next season, closing out a 22-year career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching Jillian\u2019s growth as an artist over these past 22 years has been a true pleasure,\u201d explained Karen Kain, Artistic Director Emerita. \u201cAn effervescent stage presence, technical mastery and beautiful characterization are her hallmarks. A wonderfully versatile dancer, Jillian brings joy and finesse to every role she performs. I look forward to celebrating her brilliant career and could not think of a more fitting ballet than Christopher Wheeldon\u2019s <em>After the Rain<\/em> for her to say farewell with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vanstone will close her career with a final performance of <em>After the Rain<\/em> by Christopher Wheeldon, March 23 \u2013 27, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Vancouver Island, Vanstone joined The National Ballet of Canada in 1999 and was promoted to Principal Dancer in 2011 after making her debut as Alice in the North American premiere of <em>Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em> by Christopher Wheeldon.<\/p>\n<p>Vanstone\u2019s is notable for her performances as Princess Aurora in Rudolf Nureyev\u2019s <em>The Sleeping Beauty<\/em>, Sugar Plum Fairy in <em>The Nutcracker<\/em> and the title roles in <em>Giselle<\/em> and <em>Manon<\/em>.<\/p>\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 confirmed Principal Dancer Jillian Vanstone will retire next season, closing out a 22-year career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":72568,"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],"tags":[39830,2346],"yst_prominent_words":[13340,14397,7070,7138,11032,8399,13592,10457,13922,6687,12172,27224,13346],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/National_Ballet_Of_Canada-Jillian_Vanstone.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-iSr","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72567"}],"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=72567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72569,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72567\/revisions\/72569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72567"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=72567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}