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The Australian Ballet's Romeo & Juliet, photo © Jeff Busby

Australian Ballet financial result: R&J sells out but the cost takes its toll in 2011

May 16, 2012 – 10:20 am

The Australian Ballet’s sold out production of Romeo & Juliet in Melbourne and Sydney attracted an audience of more than

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Anna Karenina, Eifman Ballet, photo © Khana Kudryashova

The shock and awe of Russian lives through Eifman’s eyes

April 23, 2012 – 8:50 am

The Eifman Ballet is to visit Australia for the first time in August and September, bringing two works, Tchaikovsky (1993)

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Tamara Rojo, ad for fashion label Hoss Intropia

Rojo and Lopez sieze the chance to call the tune

April 13, 2012 – 9:14 pm

With this week’s appointment of Tamara Rojo, 37, as the new artistic director of English National Ballet, and Lourdes Lopez’s

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Witch's costume for Macbeth, Bell Shakespeare Company, 2012

Kristian Fredrikson scholarship won by Anna Cordingley

March 17, 2012 – 1:03 pm

The Melbourne based designer Anna Cordingley has been awarded the 2012 Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship for Design in the Performing Arts.

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Australian Ballet promotions

March 1, 2012 – 5:14 am

The Australian Ballet has announced three promotions with Amy Harris and Rudy Hawkes becoming senior artists, and Vivienne Wong elevated

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Kathryn Bennetts, photo © Belga

Kathryn Bennetts sets the date to quit the Royal Ballet of Flanders

February 26, 2012 – 9:19 am

The artistic director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders will leave the company on June 30 and David Dawson’s new

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Metamorphosis at the Queensland Ballet with the appointment of Li Cunxin

February 24, 2012 – 1:00 pm

With the appointment of Li Cunxin as artistic director of the Queensland Ballet, the company will undergo a metamorphosis from

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Inside Wayne’s world at English National Ballet

February 22, 2012 – 3:16 am

THE English National Ballet is in limbo after the sudden resignation of artistic director Wayne Eagling. The announcement of his

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Wayne Eagling with Daria Klimentova, English National Ballet, photo © Bex Singleton

Wayne Eagling resigns from English National Ballet

February 21, 2012 – 2:24 am

The English National Ballet has announced the resignation of the artistic director, Wayne Eagling. News of his departure (which will

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Sergei Polunin, photo © Jason Bell/ROH

The Sergei Storm at the Royal Ballet

January 25, 2012 – 11:19 pm

Ten choreographers showcased their works in progress last evening at the Royal Opera House but one man who wasn’t there

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