Monday, January 9, 2017
Sydney Dance Company in association with the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, January 7. There are a few housekeeping rules to absorb before going downstairs to view the dance work Nude Live amon…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:03AMFriday, December 30, 2016
Last year I decided to institute my personal Artist of the Year award. There’s no money attached, of course, and I think we’d have to say it confers only a modest amount of fame. I was r…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 10:45PMAnne 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…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:20AMWednesday, December 14, 2016
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 transpi…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:38AMFriday, December 9, 2016
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 s…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:44AMSunday, December 4, 2016
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…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 08:06PMFriday, December 2, 2016
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…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:02AMSunday, November 20, 2016
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…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 03:01AMThursday, November 17, 2016
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…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:34AMWednesday, November 9, 2016
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 Ju…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 03:02AMThursday, November 3, 2016
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 unders…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:59AMTuesday, October 25, 2016
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 ques…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 03:11AMMonday, October 17, 2016
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 Vent…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:48AMTuesday, October 11, 2016
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 …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 05:42PMTuesday, October 4, 2016
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…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 08:04AMSunday, October 2, 2016
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 ca…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 06:05AMSaturday, September 17, 2016
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 …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:04AMSaturday, September 10, 2016
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 from…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:03AMTuesday, September 6, 2016
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…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 04:34AMMonday, September 5, 2016
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 piece…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:27AMSunday, September 4, 2016
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 …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:51AMMonday, August 29, 2016
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, makin…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 04:52AMSunday, August 21, 2016
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…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 10:13PMTuesday, August 16, 2016
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 …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 05:24PMThursday, August 4, 2016
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 wond…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 04:24AMMonday, July 25, 2016
A History of Falling Things, July 13; Betrayal, July 22 Tucked away in Sydney’s Kirribilli, in a secluded – and highly enviable – spot right on Sydney Harbour, the Ensemble quietl…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 06:24AMThursday, July 21, 2016
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 199…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:35AMSaturday, July 9, 2016
The received wisdom is that ballet is strictly a young person’s game. When a classical dancer gets near or just beyond 40 there is much marveling at their longevity and conjecture about wh…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 03:34AMThursday, July 7, 2016
Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney, July 6 I’m sure the good folk at Charlie Hebdo magazine won’t mind when I say, after seeing You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at the Hayes last night, that je …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:52AMTuesday, July 5, 2016
State Theatre, Melbourne, June 30 Stanton Welch looked thrilled after the premiere of his Romeo and Juliet in Melbourne, as he should have. The former Australian Ballet dancer and current AB…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 07:55AMWednesday, June 29, 2016
Sydney’s Hayes Theatre Co was the venue for another in the invaluable Neglected Musicals series (June 21). Rehearsal is minimal (a day only), there may be a sketchy set and a few props, an…
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