Canadian choreographer Brian Macdonald died at home on Saturday at the age of 86. “Brian Macdonald made an enormous contribution to the arts in Canada,” said Antoni Cimolino, artistic director at the Stratford Festival, of which Macdonald was a member of 17 seasons.
Macdonald had a passion to dance which he said he had to hide from his family. He had to stop dancing ballet when he suffered an injury to his arm.
He became a founding dancer with Canada’s National Ballet and worked as an artistic director with dance companies in Sweden and Israel. He also directed and choreographed operettas and musicals and will be remembered for “reinventing the Gilbert and Sullivan canon,” said Cimolino.
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