Veronica Tennant
Veronica Tennant ( born January 15, 1947 in London ) is a Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, dance educator and film producer.
Tennant began her training as a dancer at the Cone - Ripman School, London ( 1952-55 ) and studied from 1956 at the National Ballet School of Canada under the direction of Betty Oliphant. In 1964, she debuted with the National Ballet of Canada in the title role of John Cranko's ballet Romeo and Juliet, which was later produced by Norman Campbell for the CBC. It was quickly followed by leading roles in famous ballets like Swan Lake, Giselle and The Nutcracker, so that it was after the withdrawal of Lois Smith as prima ballerina of the National Ballet.
She danced the title role in Campbell's production of Cinderella for the CBC ( 1968), which won an Emmy Award in 1972 was the first Princess Aurora of the National Ballet in Rudolf Nureyev's The Sleeping Beauty and had success in numerous major roles of the classical ballet of 19. century.
A knee injury interrupted her career in 1977, and she wrote at this time, the children's book On Stage Please. After her recovery she excelled in roles such as Titania in Frederick Ashton's The Dream and Tatiana in Cranko's Eugene Onegin. She worked throughout her career with international choreographers such as Erik Bruhn, Roland Petit and Eliot box and Canadian choreographer James Kudelka (including Washington Square ), Ann Ditchburn ( Mad Shadows ), Constantin Patsalas (including Canciones ) and David Allan (eg Villa Ella ). together. Her dance partners included Nureyev, Anthony Dowell, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Schaufuss Earl Kraul, Edward Villella, Jean -Pierre Bonnefous, Frank Augustyn, Kevin Pugh, Raymond Smith and Rex Harrington. Tours have taken her to the United States, Japan and Europe.
In 1989, Tennant passed from the stage as Julia in the same role with which she had her first big success. She then worked as a choreographer for the Canadian Stage Company and Tarragon Theatre, appeared in 1992 as an actress and dancer at the Shaw Festival and choreographed in 1994 Cyrano at the Stratford Festival. From 1989 bisw 19992 she was artistic consultant and author in the Sunday Arts Entertainment Production and produced for CBC films Salute to Dancers for Life (1994 ), Margie Gillis: Wild Hearts in Strange Times (1996) and Karen Kain: Dancing in the torque ( 1998).
In 1998 she founded the Veronica Tennant Productions in which they include the films Words Fail ( 1999), The Four Seasons (2000), The Governor General 's Performing Arts Awards (2000), The Dancer 's Story: The National Ballet of Canada (2002), Northern Light: Vision and Dreams (2003 ), A pairing of Swans (2003) and Shadow Pleasures ( 2004) produced. In 2001, she was a star on Canada 's Walk of Fame, awarded in 2004 as a Companion of the Order of Canada. The CBC has produced over the films they Veronica Tennant: A Dancer of Distinction (1983 ) and The Life and Times of Veronica Tennant: Renaissance Woman ( 2001).