When Brigitte Lefèvre prepared for her retirement as director of the Paris Opera Ballet, she made it known that her
When Wayne Eagling was artistic director of English National Ballet he feared that the young dancer he mentored, Vadim Muntagirov,
With the Bolshoi Ballet’s season in Australia to open tomorrow, I spoke a week ago on the phone to Alexei
The pas de deux in Le Corsaire is one of the most famous moments in the classical ballet repertoire, yet
Many years ago a newspaper editor introduced me to the “law of unforeseen consequences”. It’s a distant cousin of Murphy’s
It’s 20 years today since Rudolf Nureyev died at Notre Dame du Perpétuel Secours hospital in Paris. The time of
THE Greek god of music, poetry and sun wore a dusting of white. Overnight, the snow had fallen on Apollo’s
The Bolshoi Ballet will tour to Australia next year for a season at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane,
When Anna Pavlova visited Australia in 1929 (two years before she died), she began her tour in Townsville then travelled