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Amber Scott and Adam Bull in rehearsal for Onegin, photo © Lynette Wills

Onegin: To every thing there is a season

May 11, 2012 – 10:41 am

The double asterisks on the nightly cast lists say it all. The symbol following a dancer’s name means “debut in

By valerie | Tagged Adam Bull, Amber Scott, Andrew Killian, Andrew Wright, Australian Ballet, Brett Simon, Dieter Graefe, Fiona Tonkin, John Cranko, Kenneth MacMillan, Kevin Jackson, Leanne Stojmenov, Madeleine Eastoe, Onegin, Reid Anderson, Steven Heathcote, Valerie Wilder | Comments (0)

Ella Havelka and Jake Mangakahia in Warumuk, photo © Jeff Busby

An infinite array of storms, swans and stars

April 13, 2012 – 8:11 am

In 1996, the last year of her artistic directorship of the Australian Ballet, Maina Gielgud programmed a triple bill of

By valerie | Tagged Ako Kondo, Australian Ballet, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Benedicte Bemet, Benjamin Cisterne, Beth Dean, Brett Dean, Brooke Lockett, Calvin Hannaford, Charles Thompson, David McAllister, David Page, Edourard Borovansky, Ella Havelka, Gideon Obarzanek, Graeme Murphy, Infinity, Jake Mangakahia, Jarryd Madden, Jennifer Irwin, Lana Jones, Maina Gielgud, Melbourne Cup, Nearly Beloved, Nutcracker, Peggy van Praagh, Rex Reid, Robert Helpmann, Rumours, Stefan Gregory, Stephen Page, Swan Lake, Sydney Dance Company, The Display, The Narrative of Nothing, There's Definitely a Prince Involved, Vivienne Wong, Warumuk | Comments (2)

Sydney Dance Company, 2 One Another, photo © Justin Ridler

Lights, camera, action: Bonachela orchestrates the pow! factor

March 15, 2012 – 9:10 am

It’s often the case that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In Sydney Dance Company’s new

By valerie | Tagged Amy Hollingsworth, Andrew Crawford, Benjamin Cisterne, Charmaine Yap, Chen Wen, Janine Kyle, Juliette Barton, Justin Ridler, Natalie Allen, Nick Wales, Rafael Bonachela, Samuel Webster, Sydney Dance Company, Tom Bradley, Tony Assness | Comments (0)

The Icarus Boys

January 29, 2012 – 10:09 am

Men in Motion at Sadlers Wells promised so much more than it delivered. With a running time of about an

By valerie | Tagged AfterLight, Daniel Proietto, Igor Kolb, Ithaka, Ivan Putrov, Men in Motion, Narcisse, Sergei Polinun, Spectre de la Rose | Comments (0)

Alina Cojocaru and Mads Blangstrup as Titania and Oberon

A summer’s dream in a Hamburg winter

January 22, 2012 – 9:15 am

More than three decades after its premiere, John Neumeier’s Midsummer Night’s Dream is still charming audiences, just as it did

By valerie | Tagged Alexandr Trusch, Alina Cojocaru, Anna Laudere, Hamburg Ballet, Helene Bouchet, John Neumeier, Thiago Bordin | Comments (2)

Casey Herd and Bernice Coppieters

Snowflakes and snowstorms: Behind the curtain at Pacific Northwest Ballet

December 5, 2011 – 5:07 am

When the author of Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear posted his book to me in Australia, he told me to

By valerie | Tagged Casey Herd, Francia Russell, Jean-Christophe Maillot, Kent Stowell, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Peter Boal, Romeo et Juliette, Stephen Manes, Susan Stroman | Comments (3)

Signs of the times

October 20, 2011 – 9:44 pm

In its home town, Sydney Dance Company is presenting Rafael Bonachela’s most engaging work since he became the company’s artistic

By valerie | Tagged Alan Maconald, Charmene Yap, Chen Wen, Ezio Bosso, Natalie Allen, Rafael Bonachela, Richard Cilli, Sydney Dance Company, The Land of Yes & The Land of No, Theo Clinkard | Comments (1)

Clap your hands folks, here come the Russians

September 4, 2011 – 10:51 pm

When Anna Pavlova visited Australia in 1929 (two years before she died), she began her tour in Townsville then travelled

By valerie | Tagged Bolero, Can Can, Don Quixote, Giselle, Igor Moiseyev's Folk Dance, Imperial Russian Ballet, Le Corsaire, the Dying Swan | Comments (5)

Can We Talk About This?

Can We Talk About This?

August 27, 2011 – 7:41 am

Martin Amis was cool but his audience was livid. Speaking at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, in London, the writer

By valerie | Tagged Can We Talk About This, DV8, Ira Mandela Shiobhan, Joy Constantinides, Lloyd Newson | Comments (0)

Pina Bausch 2008

Pina’s curtain call

August 11, 2011 – 1:35 am

When we look back at the disasters of the 20th century, from the slaughter in wars, to the greed of

By valerie | Tagged Bénédicte Billiet, Jo-Ann Endicott, Pina Bausch | Comments (0)

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