DANCE NEWS: NBOC posts surplus
13 OCT/11

JOHN COULBOURN - QMI Agency

TORONTO - The artists of the National Ballet of Canada can dance into the company’s Diamond Anniversary season next month feeling as good as gold, it seems, based on figures announced Thursday at the company’s annual general meeting.

To complete her term as NBOC board chairman, Lucille Joseph was able to announce a surplus on a 2010 season that saw revenues reach $26,842,000, against expenses of $26,793,000. The resulting surplus of $49,000 reduces the company’s accumulated deficit – which two years ago sat at $694,000 – to $243,000.

Artistic director Karen Kain talked of the thrill of launching new works like Chroma, Russian Seasons and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland during the last season. “All these works were important in themselves,” she said, but staging them has also laid the groundwork for working with all of these extraordinary artists on future ballets, the first of which we will see realized this November with Alexei (Ratmansky)’s new Romeo and Juliet (opening at the Four Seasons Nov. 16 to launch the company’s 60th season).