Although David McAllister’s retirement as artistic director of the Australia Ballet was announced back in May, the absolute certainty of
“So famous she has no time to eat”. Could the ballerina, Alicia Markova really have given her blessing to an
How many ballet dancers these days become actors? There are some, of course, including Baryshnikov, but I think the peak
A serendipitous chain of events this month began when a Sydney Morning Herald columnist asked for help with an article
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
She liked to say she led two lives – the first as a ballerina who danced on stages from Paris
There are transitions and then there are major life changes. Anna Volkova, who died in Sydney last weekend aged 96,
I recently wrote about a group of Ballets Russes’ drawings by Cecil Waller that were auctioned in Sydney in May