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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

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Neumeier’s Nijinsky: A reflection of both the dancer and the choreographer

September 13, 2016 – 10:00 am

The ballet Nijinsky isnâ€™t a chronological narrative of the dancerâ€™s life, but depicts elements of his life as he remembers

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Nijinsky’s father-in-law: The Australian connection

August 15, 2016 – 1:01 pm

When the dancers of Diaghilevâ€™s Ballets Russes sailed on the SS Avon from Southampton to Buenos Aires in 1913, there

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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

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The Australian Ballet’s 2016 repertoire

September 23, 2015 – 8:32 am

For the first time in its history, the Australian Ballet will stage a ballet choreographed by John Neumeier, the artistic

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A century of Fauns

January 8, 2012 – 8:37 pm

The editor of Le Figaro did not hold back. Reviewing the premiere of Nijinskyâ€™s Lâ€™AprÃ¨s midi dâ€™un Faune, he massacred

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Bronislava Nijinska – “downright difficult and determined”

August 28, 2011 – 1:28 pm

To be the sister of Vaslav Nijinsky would be a difficult role, firstly because of his immense fame and secondly

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Diaghilev and death in Venice

May 23, 2011 – 3:53 pm

Diaghilev found the right city for his death. Venice is theatre with its palazzi along the Grand Canal representing the

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