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Fancy footwork

Date published : April 12, 2010 - Montreal, Quebec

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens must dance to a new recessionary tune - keeping "allegro" while funds are "diminuendo."
 
Reporting and photographs
Dominique Lafond

Editor
Miguel Raymond

Director-coordinator
Hélène Choquette

Music
Johann Sebastian Bach

Musical performance
Robert Marcel Lepage

© 2009 NFB – All rights reserved
 
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Tags:

Sponsorship, Performing arts, Ballet, Donation, Revenue, Charity, Foundation, Salary, Grands Ballets Canadiens, Alain Dancyger, Dominique Lafond

 
  • The average yearly salary of a dancer with the Grands
  • Ballets Canadiens is $30,000 - while the average salary
  • of a NHL hockey player is $1,906,793.
  • Sources: La Presse, the Sports Network
 

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Fancy footwork

By Anne Simone Tolbert - Date published: September 22, 2010

I am disappointed to have missed the film showing of Les Grands Ballets and this clip was a bit of a tease. I wish the whole film were available for purchase on DVD!

 

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