Alberta Ballet ended its season Friday in controversy. The company fired Barbara Moore its “most senior” dancer. “In what superficially looks like an uncanny replay of the now famous fight between the National Ballet and the soi-disant prima who won’t go away, Kimberly Glasco, Moore, 31, has launched a wrongful dismissal suit against the company that has been her dancing home for the past 15 years.” – National Post (Canada)
- Also: A CHILLING EFFECT: Fifty prominent Canadian artists sign a letter protesting a judge’s ruling reinstating dancer Kimberly Glasco’s job at the National Ballet of Canada after she was fired. – CBC 04/17/00
- Previously: WHO’S THE BOSS? A Canadian judge has ordered the National Ballet of Canada to reinstate principal dancer Kimberly Glasco, who was dismissed by the company earlier this season. James Kudelka, the ballet’s artistic director, said that Glasco wasn’t dancing as well as she once did and that she didn’t fit with his artistic vision. Glasco sued for wrongful dismissal, saying she’d been fired for criticizing Kudelka’s plans for a new “Swan Lake.” – CBC 04/10/00