Although David McAllister’s retirement as artistic director of the Australia Ballet was announced back in May, the absolute certainty of
The opening night of Neumeier’s Nijinsky in Sydney was Remembrance Day, the 11th of November, a day that marks the
When the dancers of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes sailed on the SS Avon from Southampton to Buenos Aires in 1913, there
As a postscript to the mystery man of Colonel de Basil’s Ballets Russes, Otis Pearce, this is the much briefer
His first name was Otis. His second name was Pearce, or maybe Pierce, as his name was often spelt. He
A hundred years ago the Ziegfeld Follies opened on Broadway with Bachelor Days, a vaudeville show that included a song
For the first time in its history, the Australian Ballet will stage a ballet choreographed by John Neumeier, the artistic
I would, if I could, take a magic carpet ride to several continents and at least a dozen theatres to
First the State Library of New South Wales found a gigantic painting of Irina Baronova tucked away in the archives
Just when it seemed there could be no more treasures to be unearthed from de Basil’s Ballets Russes’ tours of