Canadian Heritage committee  I'll take a moment. Speaking for the large institutions like ourselves, like Les Grands Ballets, Alberta Ballet, and the National Ballet, we all run school programs of one sort or another. Through my recreational school I have Concert Hour Ballet that goes out at a loss througho

Canadian Heritage committee  I beg your pardon?

Canadian Heritage committee  It's interesting, because myself and my board chair talk about this all the time. I come from the commercial sector as well as the not-for-profit. I think definitely there would be a change of the ecology. There are successful profit-oriented arts organizations, Cirque du Solei

Canadian Heritage committee  I think we all said it.

Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly. We see that in our recreational division, just kids who come—my daughters, for example. Hopefully they'll never be performers; they should go for higher salaries. The well-being is something that a lot of people embrace. There's something about the human animal. We've

Canadian Heritage committee  If I may, I've had the good pleasure to work in Europe. The interesting thing is that in Europe, arts are very accessible at 39 euros or 39 pounds for a ticket. In Canada our tickets are very expensive, because we have to find money to produce our art and so on. I think all of us

Canadian Heritage committee  The initiative of sharing dance is exactly that. It's to bring dance into the schools and into the community on a larger level. The training is very important. The training program through Heritage is very important. I've gone blank on the name. The other thing is that this act

Canadian Heritage committee  In dealing with members of the government, we've talked about the inadvertent byproduct of the recent problems and issues they've had to face. What we are looking for.... When people come here to train and dance, or to practice dance, we do have all the regulations under the temp

Canadian Heritage committee  We're seeing an increase. There was recently an article on the National Ballet School in Toronto about its seeing an increase in attendance by young men. One thing we've been doing in the larger institutions is subsidize training for young men. There's a lot of hip hop—it's prob

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. I want to begin by thanking the committee for its interest and for the unique opportunity for us to talk about Canadian dance. Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet is the oldest ballet in Canada and one of the oldest in North America. We used to call it the oldes