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Celebrating 50 Years

The Merry Widow (1986). Awarded the Silver Medal in the Women’s Category at the Second International Ballet Competition in Moscow, also winning first prize 1971 for Best Pas de Deux with Frank Augustyn. The duo performed the Echo (1988). Bluebird Pas de Deux from The Sleeping Beauty.

With Frank Augustyn in Afternoon of a Faun (1977).

La Ronde (1987).

With Reid Anderson 1980 in Onegin (1984). Debuts in Swan Lake at the age of 19 while Photographed by still a member of Andy Warhol for the Corps de Ballet, commissioned 1969 replacing an injured silk screen portrait. Veronica Tennant Debuts in the role of Princess Aurora in The Elite Syncopations (1978). Graduates from ’s National Ballet and is promoted to Sleeping Beauty with and School and joins the Corps de Ballet. Principal Dancer. 1973 they begin a celebrated partnership.

With Graeme Mears in Now and 1989 Then (1993). 1997 2013 Returns The National Ballet of Canada to the 2018 international stage with successful tours to Embarks on a cross Canada Farewell Tour CBC TV airs Karen Kain: London, England and Washington and to Los performing James Kudelka’s The Actress. Prima Ballerina directed Angeles and New York City the following year Tours the company by Norman Campbell. to San Francisco, Hamburg, Germany and Moscow and St. 1991 Petersburg in Russia. With Jeremy Ransom in Made a Companion of the The Taming of the Shrew Order of Canada, the highest (1992). honour in the country. 2019

Celebrates 50 glorious years with 2005 The National Ballet 2017 of Canada. Appointed Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada. Tours the company to Paris, France for the first time in 45 years with John Neumeier’s Nijinsky at the Théâtre With Guillaume Côté in Paris. des Champs-Élysées.

Awarded a 2015 Dance Magazine Award, presented by Mikhail A Month in the Country With . Baryshnikov in New York City. Performs her finalSwan 2015 (1995). 1994 Lake on November 25. Photos by Aleksandar Antonijevic, Ken Bell, D. Brian Campbell, CBC, Anthony Crickmay, Barry Gray, Doug Griffin, Karolina Kuras, Andrew Oxenham, Lydia Pawelak, Sian Richards, Victoria Schwarzl, David Street, Cylla von Tiedemann and Bruce Zinger.

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