When Margot Fonteyn toured Australia in 1962 she brought with her an elite group of seven dancers, shown in the
No one excelled Robert Helpmann as a multi tasker. Dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, director and publicist, Helpmann was at the
Desmond Heeley, the English stage designer who worked with Ballet Rambert, the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, John Cranko, Kenneth MacMillan,
There are famous exceptions, among them Galina Ulanova, Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Sylvie Guillem, but few ballet dancers continue
This article was first published in The Sydney Morning Herald. With its bomb sites, rubble and rationing, London in 1946
This article first appeared in the Good Weekend supplement of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Tucked in a
David Wall, one of the Royal Ballet’s most acclaimed principal dancers, has died at the age of 67. Born in
The pas de deux in Le Corsaire is one of the most famous moments in the classical ballet repertoire, yet
It’s 20 years today since Rudolf Nureyev died at Notre Dame du Perpétuel Secours hospital in Paris. The time of
Today, when a ballet company goes on an international tour, the dancers are lucky to spend a couple of weeks