Dream Ballet

A century ago, on the corner of Toronto’s Yonge and Front streets, stood the Grand Trunk Railroad – a bustling, sepia-toned confluence of pioneers, country builders, and fortune seekers. Decades later, the site would become the meeting place for a new kind of pioneer – actors, musicians, dancers. The O’Keefe Centre quickly became an incubator of the city’s world-class ambitions.

Today a new era begins on this storied ground. Daniel Liebskind’s L Tower is a landmark of 21st century international architecture, and a marker of Toronto’s growing importance as a global cultural destination.

Dream Ballet is a triptych of quicksilver columns whose curved, abstracted forms evoke the dynamics of ballet in homage to the National Ballet of Canada’s four-decade tenure at the O’Keefe Centre. Each sculpture expresses its unique personality through line, balance and proportion.

The sculptures are featured in a stunning plaza, designed by renowned landscape architects Claude Cormier + Associates, situated between the minimalist stone-clad Sony Centre theatre and the blue steel of the L Tower’s shard. The sculptures will reflect the Taj Mahal-inspired bric-a-brac pattern set in black and white granite Cormier has designed for the Plaza surface, as well as invite the spectator to peer into the past, present, and future.