Ann Ditchburn has been a rebel with a cause at the National Ballet, she pays homage to the classics but yearns to go beyond them. In the past 10 years(...)

Original Toronto Star caption: Ann Ditchburn has been a rebel with a cause at the National Ballet, she pays homage to the classics but yearns to go beyond them. In the past 10 years she has choreographed 15 short dance works but now it's the eve of the premiere of her first full-lenght ballet, Mad Shadows, based on a Marie-Claire Blais novel about family self-destruction.