Monthly Archives: April 2011

Bodytorque, Dana Stephensen and Brett Simon. Photo by Paul Empson.

Australian Ballet’s live internet broadcast

April 29, 2011 – 4:56 am

The Australian Ballet announced today that it will present a live internet broadcast of its Bodytorque.Muses program. BigPond will live

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New York City Ballet ad campaign

Sexy photos can’t fix the woes of New York City Ballet

April 28, 2011 – 11:12 am

Seven months ago, the New York City Ballet launched a major marketing campaign designed to attract a new audience. Subway

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Robert Helpmann as the Red King

Helpmann’s last move on the chessboard

April 24, 2011 – 1:09 pm

In 1986, Robert Helpmann was in hospital suffering from emphysema when the Australian Ballet’s artistic director, Maina Gielgud, and ballet

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Madeleine Parker, model for the sculpture Playdays

Madeleine Parker and the Fokine connection

April 21, 2011 – 12:48 pm

An American reader of dancelines, Bill Orzell, has kindly filled in some details of the early life of Madeleine Parker,

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Anna Pavlova in 1920

How Ashton fell under Pavlova’s spell

April 21, 2011 – 8:58 am

Frederick Ashton explains how he was entranced by Anna Pavlova, with clips of Pavlova dancing. The clip ends before Ashton

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Pina in 3D: Australian premiere and Q & A

April 18, 2011 – 10:28 pm

Pina Bausch, says one of her dancers, is “like a house with an attic full of treasures”. And so, too,

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When Princess Margaret met Rudi, Margot, Peggy, and Bobby

April 17, 2011 – 4:07 am

It’s London, December 1965, and Princess Margaret with arrives with Lord Snowdon to see the Australian Ballet perform Raymonda, with

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After the Rain – a great pas de deux

April 16, 2011 – 1:22 am

The Australian Ballet is about to revive Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain. The second part of the two part work

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Sabrina at the Peppermint Lounge, Sydney

Let’s twist again, like we did last summer!

April 13, 2011 – 11:13 pm

The dance craze that set hips swiveling all over the world is about to celebrate its golden anniversary. In 1962,

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Tatiana Stepanova

Spencer Shier and the three Russian beauties

April 11, 2011 – 11:12 pm

For a man who took hundreds of portraits of politicians, businessmen, society figures, actors, and dancers, the Australian photographer, Spencer

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