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The Australian Ballet 2020

September 29, 2019 – 1:06 pm

Although David McAllisterâ€™s retirement as artistic director of the Australia Ballet was announced back in May, the absolute certainty of

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged A Month in the Country, Alexei Ratmansly, Alice Topp, AndrÃ© Prokovsky, Anna Karenina, Ashley Wheater, Australian Ballet, Ballets Russes, Chroma, Colonel de Basil, David McAllister, Dyad 1929, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Graeme Murphy, Harlequinade, Joffrey Ballet, John Lanchbery, Kristian Fredrikson, Les Millions dâ€™Arlequin, Logos, Molto Vivace, Nicolette Fraillon, Sergei Diaghilev, Squander and Glory, Stephen Baynes, Steven Heathcote, Swan Lake, The Happy Prince, Tim Harbour, Wayne McGregor, Yuri Possokhov | Comments (0)

200 years after Petipa’s birth, Ratmansky prepares for a new BayadÃ¨re

August 28, 2018 – 12:30 am

To mark the 200 years since the birth of Marius Petipa, the choreographer was celebrated with a memorial plaque at

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Alexei Ratmansky, American Ballet Theatre, Harlequinade, Jerome Kaplan, La Bayadere, Mariinsky Theatre, Staatsballett Berlin, Vaganova Academy | Comments (0)

Whoops and whistles as Misty brings down the house

November 24, 2017 – 10:56 am

It wasnâ€™t your everyday ballet audience. There were whoops, cheers and whistles as Misty Copeland made her entrance as Aurora

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged Australian Ballet, Jade Wood, Kevin Jackson, Lev Ivanov, Marcus Morelli, Misty Copeland, Opera Australia Orchestra, Philip Ellis, The Sleeping Beauty | Comments (1)

Diana and Actaeon, the odd couple of a Soviet showstopper

May 1, 2016 – 9:34 am

Thereâ€™s nothing quite like the Diana and Actaeon* pas de deux to excite a ballet audience. The piece is a

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Agrippina Vaganova, Ako Kondo, Australian Ballet, Chengwu Guo, Diana and Actaeon, Doug Fullington, Esmeralda, Galina Ulanova, George Balanchine, Jules Perrot, Kirov Ballet, Le Roi Candaule, Lucinda Dunn, Paquita, Robert Curran, Spring Waters, Symphony in C, Vaktang Chabukiani | Comments (1)

Now and then in the Australian Ballet’s night of white

May 4, 2014 – 1:10 pm

When William Forsythe rehearsed his In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated with the Paris Opera Ballet in 1987 he asked one

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged Andrew Killian, Art to Sky, Australian Ballet, Balanchine, Chroma, Hugh Colman, Jiri Kylian, Joby Talbot, John Pawson, Lana Jones, Lucy Carter, Madeleine Eastoe, Mozart, Natasha Kusen, Petite Mort, Sechs Tanze, Valerie Tereschenko, Wayne McGregor, White Stripes, William Forsythe | Comments (0)

Bourne’s Beauty Goes Global

September 9, 2013 – 8:25 am

Matthew Bourne is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his company, New Adventures, with a Sleeping Beauty-fest. After its premiere season

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged Adam Maskell, Anastasia, Christopher Marney, Dominic North, Graeme Murphy, Hannah Vassallo, Kenneth MacMillan, Lez Brotherston, Matthew Bourne, New Adventures, Tchaikovsky, The Sleeping Beauty | Comments (3)

Turbans and tutus: the Bolshoi brings Le Corsaire to Australia

June 7, 2013 – 7:47 am

Le Corsaire, as danced by the Bolshoi Ballet, is like a croquembouche. The caramel-wrapped cone of pastry balls sprinkled sugar

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged Alexei Ratmansky, Andrey Bolotin, Anna Tikhomirova, Bolshoi Ballet, Boris Kaminsky, Maria Alexandrova, Mikhail Lobukhin, Pavel Sorokin, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Ruslan Skvortsov, Vladislav Lantratov, Yekena Zaytseva, Yevgeny Ponomaryov, Yuri Burlaka | Comments (2)

Nureyev in Le Corsaire: “Choreographed on him by God”

January 6, 2013 – 6:56 am

Itâ€™s 20 years today since Rudolf Nureyev died at Notre Dame du PerpÃ©tuel Secours hospital in Paris. The time of

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Agrippina Vaganova, Alexander Chekrygin, Alexei Ratmansky, Alistair Macaulay, Drigo, Ezio Frigerio, Joseph Mazilier, Juiie Kavanagh, Jules Perrot, Le Corsaire, Margot Fonteyn, Nikolai Zubkovsky, Robert Greskovic, Rudolf Nureyev, Samuil Andrianov | Comments (0)

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