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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Pina Bausch made my year. For his final Sydney Festival in January, artistic director Lieven Bertels programmed two bracing De Keersmaeker works, Fase and Vort…
In late November David Hallberg told The New York Times that he wanted to "just step onstage quietly here" " the American dancer was referring to Sydney – "and see what transpires". Re…
Just after I filed my story to The Australian on David Hallberg's keenly anticipated return to the stage on December 13, with The Australian Ballet in Sydney, the paper's deputy editor sent …
Benedicte Bemet (Swanilda) and Brett Chynoweth (Franz), Sydney Opera House, December 3 (matinee). There are no dancers in The Australian Ballet today that interest me more than Benedicte Bem…
Carriageworks, Sydney, November 29. Who knew gloom could come in so many shades? This year's New Breed program must have tested the ingenuity of Benjamin Cisterne, Sydney Dance Company's go-…
AFTER a long recuperation after injury, American danseur noble David Hallberg will return to the ballet stage in December – in a place and a part not many would have anticipated. Hallb…
State Theatre, Melbourne, September 7; Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, November 11. JOHN Neumeier, the choreographer and longtime artistic director of Hamburg Ballet, has made a…
IN October Queensland Ballet announced that artistic director Li Cunxin had signed on for another four years, doubtless much to the relief of the QB board. Li succeeded François Klaus in …
Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art. The Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, October 27, November 2. A pulsating, unforgiving light picks out Kristina Chan's forehead and undersco…
Wildebeest and Anima. Roslyn Packer Theatre Walsh Bay, Sydney, October 20. In the double bill Untamed, Gabrielle Nankivell's Wildebeest and Rafael Bonachela's Anima come at the same question…
Royal New Zealand Ballet's search for a choreographer to make a new Romeo and Juliet for the company in 2017 was a short one. After the sell-out success of artistic director Francesco Ventri…
Concourse Theatre, Chatswood, Sydney, October 4 The Australian Ballet's regional touring program has undergone a quiet change. It was created about 35 years ago as The Dancers Company but si…
Poor old Kings Cross. It used to have a bit of glamour back in the day, what with its famous crims, flamboyant, unconventional characters and nightclubs that could attract international perf…
Next year the Sydney Opera House's Joan Sutherland Theatre, home to both The Australian Ballet and Opera Australia when they are in Sydney, will close for seven months. It's in a good cause,…
Brisbane Powerhouse, September 14. Labels are always tricky. Jonah Bokaer is essentially a dance-maker but his deep immersion in the visual arts pushes his work towards performance art. But …
Because The Australian Ballet’s Nijinsky opened in Melbourne I didn’t review it for The Australian – my colleague Eamonn Kelly did the honours. I did, however, travel fr…
Lyric Theatre, QPAC, Brisbane, September 2. Angelin Preljocaj's Snow White oozes sex, glamour and fantasy in a visually ravishing production that juxtaposes a monumental, golden-hued court w…
NTGent and Les Ballets C de la B. Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, September 3. It was a stroke of genius to build this knotty, sometimes exasperating, always fascinating pie…
Sydney Opera House, August 31. Israeli choreographer Rami Be'er wears his heart on his sleeve in Horses in the Sky. The name comes from a doleful song by Canadian band Silver Mt. Zion but in…
Isaac Theatre Royal, Christchurch, August 23 Every traditional Giselle is drawn in the same broad strokes; it's the myriad finer details that distinguish one production from another, making …
Carriageworks, Sydney, August 17. Marnie Palomares has Alex Jones pinned against a wall and is trying to put words into his mouth. Literally. This would be a resonant image under any circums…
Disney Theatrical Productions, August 11. "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess," said Oscar Wilde, who obviously wasn't in a position to advise Disney on Aladdin but wo…
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, July 29. The Andrews Sisters style is all honey, sunshine and an irresistible life force, even when there's a touch of wistfulness in the lyrics. No wonder…
A History of Falling Things, July 13;Â Betrayal, July 22 Tucked away in Sydney's Kirribilli, in a secluded – and highly enviable " spot right on Sydney Harbour, the Ensemble quietly …
Any Australian with more than a passing interest in contemporary dance must have seen Ohad Naharin's Batsheva Dance Company. It could have been at Barrie Kosky's Adelaide Festival in 1996 " …
