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News Archive for Mark McEwan

EVENT REPORT 06.23.09 1:56 PM

National Ballet Fills Auditorium With Clouds, White Decor for Gala Dinner on Stage

The dining area on the stage
Photo: Gary Beechey

The National Ballet of Canada went with a "White Hot" theme for its fourth annual fund-raiser at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. “We were going to stick with [last year's] 'Mad Hot' [theme] and work with it, but 'White Hot' gave us more of an open palette,” the ballet’s event manager, Jennifer Zimmerman, said of the shift. "We went for chic and simple and used decor with angular interest.”

As in past years, guests watched an hourlong performance of short works selected by artistic director Karen Kain. Principal dancer Chan Hon Goh, who plans to retire at the end of the season (after 20 years with the company), danced a special final performance. Goh performed with principal dancer Aleksandar Antonijevic in the company premiere of Peter Martins’s Valse Triste. The one-hour performance also included the Canadian premiere of Christopher Wheeldon’s Prokofiev Pas de Deux. MORE >>

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EVENT REPORT 03.30.09 4:35 PM

ROM Channels Miami's Delano Hotel for PROM Gala

Colourful lighting at PROM IV
Photo: andreasphoto.ca

Just one week after the first day of spring, the fourth annual PROM event at the Royal Ontario Museum attempted to bring some Miami heat straight from South Beach. Called "PROM IV: Ocean Drive" and hosted by the museum's Young Patron's Circle, the benefit transformed the museum’s Samuel Hall Currelly Gallery and the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal to look like the famous Delano Hotel and flew in two DJs who play South Beach clubs—DJ Mateo and Canada's own DJ JoJo Flores—to spin tunes throughout the night.

“It was like a stay-cation,” said Candice Best of Best PR Boutique, who co-chaired the event with Jennifer Bassett. “Guests experienced all of the heat and energy of what happens in the Delano Hotel on a Saturday night—but at the ROM.” Organizers drew inspiration from the museum’s new Schad Gallery of Biodiversity, which will house a live coral reef and opens May 12. MORE >>

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