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The curtain falls for now:How dance companies are reaching out to their audiences

March 15, 2020 – 7:24 am

If you’re reading this you already know that in Australia sports come first and the performing arts come later, if

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Anna Karenina, Arts Centre Melbourne, Australian Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Queensland Ballet, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Royal Opera House, Sydney Dance Company, Volt | Comments (0)

La Scala and Nureyev, at home and abroad

June 7, 2018 – 10:29 am

The strong connection between Rudolf Nureyev and La Scala was recently honoured with a gala in Milan to mark the

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Apollo, Australian Ballet, Carla Fracci, Colin Peasley, Don Quixote, Federic Olivieri, Francis Croese, Germain Louvet, Lucette Aldous, Marianela Nunez, Marilyn Rowe, Nicoletta Manni, Robert Helpmann, Roberto Bolle, Rudolf Nureyev, Sleeping Beauty, Svetlana Zakharova, Vadim Muntagirov | Comments (0)

La Scala to tour to Australia in November

March 18, 2018 – 9:44 am

The Teatro alla Scala Ballet will tour to Australia in November, bringing Don Quixote and Giselle for its 12-day season

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Claudio Coviello, David Hallberg, Leonid Sarafanov, Maria Eichwald, Nicoletta Manni, Teatro alla Scala Ballet, Timofey Andrijashenko | Comments (0)

2016: The past, the present, and a very big challenge of the future

January 3, 2016 – 1:13 pm

A hundred years ago the Ziegfeld Follies opened on Broadway with Bachelor Days, a vaudeville show that included a song

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Akram Khan, Alexander Ekman, Alexei Ratmansky, Arthur Pita, Ballets Russes, Bolshoi Babylon, Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Theatre, Cacti, Dieter Graefe, Ethan Stiefel, Fearful Symmetries, Forgotten Land, Giselle, In the Middle Somewhat Elevated, Ismene Brown, Jiri Kylian, Johann Kobborg, John Adams, John Cranko, John Macfarlane, Leonard Bernstein, Lest We Forget, Liam Scarlett, Lowell Liebermann, Lucy Moore, Makhar Vaziev, Mark Franchetti, Max Weber, Natalia Osipova, Nick Read, Paul Taylor, Peter Martins, Queensland Ballet, Reid Anderson, Richard Buckle, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Russell Maliphant, Sadlers Wells, San Francisco Ballet, Sergei Diaghilev, Sergei Filin, Sergei Polunin, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Stuttgart Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, Tamara Rojo, Tamas Detrich, Till Eulenspiegel, Vaslav Nijinsky, Vitesse, Vladimir Urin, William Forsythe, World Ballet Day, Ziegfield Follies | Comments (0)

The sublime dancer and actor, Alessandra Ferri, returns to the Royal Opera House stage

March 31, 2015 – 6:24 am

The Italian ballerina, Alessandra Ferri, retired in 2007, but six years later she returned to the stage. A former principal

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Alessandra Ferri, American Ballet Theatre, Fabrizio Ferri, Kenneth MacMillan, Manon, Onegin, Romeo & Juliet, Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet School, Steven Heathcote, The Piano Upstairs, Virginia Woolf, Wayne McGregor, Woolf Works | Comments (2)

Remembering Rudi: the tribute year begins

October 12, 2012 – 9:41 am

A year of tribute to Rudolf Nureyev has begun with an exhibition showcasing more than 80 costumes and 50 photographs

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Australian Ballet, Cinderella, Don Quixote, English National Ballet, Raymonda, Royal Ballet, Rudolf Nureyev, San Francisco Ballet | Comments (0)

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