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David Hallberg, photo © Matthew Karas for Dance Magazine

David Hallberg the headline attraction for the Australian Ballet’s gala

May 14, 2012 – 9:03 am

David Hallberg will return to Australia to guest with the Australian Ballet in the company’s s 50th anniversary gala in

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left to right: Jan Megna (formerly Jan Melvin), Colin Peasley, Margaret Akerman, Garth Welch, Marilyn Jones, Greg Khoury, Ramona Ratas, Robert Olup, Heather Macrae, Ian Rannard and Patrina Coates. Photo: Samantha Eedle

The ballet class of ’62

May 8, 2012 – 7:07 am

Fifty years after they first assembled in Melbourne, 10 of the foundation members of the Australian Ballet posed for this

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Beth Dean as the Initiate, Corroboree, 1954, courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, PXA 739/1867

Beth Dean and Moscelyne Jasinsky: Parallel lives devoted to dance

April 28, 2012 – 11:47 pm

The deaths of two dancers, one in Sydney, New South Wales, the other in Tulsa, Oklahoma, are reminders of the

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Darcey Bussell, BBC publicity shot for Strictly Come Dancing

Darcey Bussell, strictly not dancing, for now

April 25, 2012 – 8:23 am

It’s been rumoured for months, but is now confirmed – Bussell will be returning to London for four months from

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Podcast: Ballet in Australia in the 20th century

April 3, 2012 – 9:14 am

The Australian Ballet has a new podcast about ballet in Australia from the visits of Anna Pavlova to the 1960s.

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Dancelines archived

March 9, 2012 – 4:37 am

Dancelines has been selected for preservation by the State Library of New South Wales. It will be re-archived regularly. The

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Zeglovsky school, rehearsal for Les Sylphides, Sydney, October 1939, photo © Sam Hood, Home and Away - 19955, Courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW

Valentin Zeglovsky: more mysteries solved

February 29, 2012 – 7:56 am

The photographs by Max Dupain and Sam Hood of Valentin Zeglovsky in the State Library of New South Wales inspired

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Guillaume Côté dancing in the zone

February 8, 2012 – 7:22 am

Thanks to the Canadian website, CBCnews for posting this video of Guillaume Côté, a principal with the National Ballet of

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Fred Astaire in Top Hat, 1935

The magic of Fred

January 7, 2012 – 10:07 pm

Fred Astaire remains a style icon more than half a century after he danced across the stage and screen. Last

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Princess Florine and the Bluebird

Beauty past and present

January 4, 2012 – 9:37 pm

These Kenneth Rowell costume designs for the Australian Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty brought back memories of the production’s premiere at the

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