A lot can happen within 12 hours. A sunrise, a sunset or even a full-circle realization of something that has been right in front of you for over a decade.
This is the love story of Heather Ogden and Guillaume Côté.
Both principal dancers with the National Ballet of Canada, Ogden and Côté first met in their teens. They were later paired to perform lead roles in the company’s major ballets, including Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet (the couple’s personal favourite) and Sleeping Beauty. And not unlike a fairy-tale romance, they fell in love.
This is a story filled with passion. Like the time Ogden took the train to New York City to visit Côté for a mere 12 hours — a day that inspired Côté to write the song If This Is a Dream; a song that they would later dance to on their wedding day in 2010.