Veronica Tennant, CC FRSC (born January 15, 1946) is a Canadian producer, director, and filmmaker and a former principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada.
[3] Her official farewell gala in November 1989 includes dance excerpts from Giselle, Washington Square, Canciones, Masada, Onegin as well as a final pas de deux that she never performed before from Cranko's The Taming of the Shrew.
[5] By 1976, she was a star at the National Ballet and touring across North America, Europe and Japan with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev, and Anthony Dowell, among others, as prima ballerina.
Among her performances she appeared in Giselle, La Sylphide, Napoli, The Sleeping Beauty, La Fille mal gardée, Onegin, The Dream, A Party, Washington Square, Hedda, Mad Shadows, Parranda Criolla, Kraanerg, The Newcomers, Whispers of Darkness and Realm in which she mostly interprets the leading roles.
As a producer, director and filmmaker, her films and documentaries related to dance were broadcast on channels like CBC, CTV and Bravo.
Among them Salute to Dancers for Life/Danser pour la Vie (1994–95), Margie Gillis: Wild Hearts in Strange Times (1996); Karen Kain: Dancing in the Moment (1998); Northern Light - Visions and Dreams (2003); a pairing of SwanS (2004) and Celia Franca: Tour de Force (2006).