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Former Place des Arts ballerina gets Karen Kain nod

A former ballet student at Place des Arts represented the National Ballet of Canada at an international competition last month.
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A former ballet student at Place des Arts represented the National Ballet of Canada at an international competition last month.

Jeannine Haller, who studied at the Coquitlam facility under Lucienne Anczykowski, was chosen by the company’s artistic director, Karen Kain, to show her skills at The Erik Bruhn Prize.

For this year’s contest, Haller, 22, was partnered with fellow Corps de Ballet member Siphesihle November, 20, to compete against other young dancers from the American Ballet Theatre, The Hamburg Ballet and The Royal Danish Ballet.

Anczykowski was in Toronto to see Haller perform on March 23 (November clinched the top male prize while Catherine Hurlin of the American Ballet Theatre won the female award).

Haller joined the National Ballet of Canada as an apprentice in 2015; she was promoted to the Corps de Ballet the following year.