Australian audiences know Wayne McGregor from Dyad 1929, made in 2009 as part of The Australian Ballet's Ballets Russes celebration; Chroma, choreographed in 2006 and brought into the …
Australia's three leading classical companies have released their 2023 programs, each with a distinctive flavour. The Australian Ballet has a deeply glamorous 60thanniversary season, West Au…
Governments rise and fall. Children grow up to be mothers and then grandmothers. A man steps on the moon. Evolution creates a new version of humankind, the digital native. And serenely Th…
The Australian Ballet is in a nostalgic mood. The company's 60th birthday is just around the corner " its first performance was in Sydney on November 2, 1962 " so thoughts naturally go to…
Kenneth MacMillan's Manon premiered in 1974, not quite a decade after his Romeo and Juliet, and in some ways is the earlier ballet's dark twin. Each has as its heart young lovers in…
Savage's subtitle is The Violence of Forgetting, letter and words separated from their neighbours by full stops and slashes. Australian Dance Theatre adds even more emphasis with attentio…
Adapted and directed by Kip Williams. Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney, August 10 and September 7. Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case starts not with Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde but with Jekyll's c…
Theatre Royal, Sydney, August 30, 2022 She was sitting in the front row of the Theatre Royal stalls, which means she was practically onstage. The young woman was on her own, applauding like …
One of the stranger side effects of Covid has been Opera Australia's double dip into The Phantom of the Opera. First up was the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour extravaganza directed by Simo…
Neilson Studio, Sydney Dance Company, August 19, 2022 INDance is a new Sydney Dance Company initiative, one in which it shares space and resources with independent dance artists. It's good f…