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Benjamin Millepied: A stranger in his own land

February 8, 2016 – 1:24 pm

When Brigitte LefÃ¨vre prepared for her retirement as director of the Paris Opera Ballet, she made it known that her

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The Fonteyn Follies of ’62

March 31, 2012 – 12:22 pm

With the men in miniscule swimming costumes, and the women dressed modestly in summer shirts and cotton trousers, Margot Fonteyn

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Down by the bridges of Paris with Roland Petit in ’53

November 30, 2011 – 6:42 am

Long before today’s photographers took their cameras outside to capture dancers posing alfresco, the stars of Roland Petit’s Ballets de

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Carmen’s journey to Australia, via Marseille and South Africa

July 15, 2011 – 1:31 pm

Following this week’s earlier post on the ballet, Carmen, I’ve been able to speak with Lucette Aldous, the first ballerina

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Petit’s Carmen, a study in seduction

July 12, 2011 – 9:08 am

The Australian Ballet was only 11 years old in 1973 when it took something dramatically different into the repertoire –

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