226 stories by "Deborah Jones"
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, August 28. When Queensland Ballet staged Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet in 2014 the then-small company took a huge risk, although one mi…
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, August 29. Natalia Osipova is the most arresting classical dancer of her generation. Others may have an inner fire that burns brightly but she has a furnac…
Amy Hollingsworth can't be too specific about the first season she is curating as artistic director of Brisbane-based Expressions Dance Company " details for 2020 will be announced later thi…
Based on the film by P.J. Hogan. Book by P.J. Hogan, music and lyrics by Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall. Sydney Theatre Company and Global Creatures. Lyric Theatre, Sydney, July 4 Murie…
QPAC International Series, Brisbane, June 27 and June 29 The Bolshoi's pairing of Yuri Grigorovich's Spartacus and George Balanchine's Jewels could not be more fascinating. They were m…
Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane, June 28 Synergy is a small, unpretentious program that's partly a place where emerging choreographers can test their capabilitie…
Bangarra Dance Theatre, Sydney Opera House, June 14 What a marvellous idea to include Jiřà Kylián's Stamping Ground in this celebration of Bangarra's three decades of dance. …
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, May 17 and 18 (matinee) Old politicians are never the ones who die in battle, are they? Jiřà Kylián's Soldier's Mass (1980) isn't th…
The Australian Ballet, Sydney Opera House, May 8 For many ballet-lovers the second act of Giselle is what brings them back repeatedly and Maina Gielgud's much-revived production for The A…
Sydney Opera House, May 1 Graeme Murphy fell ill earlier this year and was unable to complete his new ballet, The Happy Prince, in time for its premiere in Melbourne, which was to have been …
Sydney Opera House, April 5 The Australian Ballet's contemporary triple bill Verve, having a Sydney season this year after its premiere in Melbourne last year, presents works from the compan…
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney, March 27 Bonachela/Nankivell/Lane ushers in Sydney Dance Company's 50th anniversary celebrations with three works that foreground the dancers. There are …
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, March 23. Dangerous Liaisons is not suitable for children, advises Queensland Ballet. Too true. Sex is the currency in this world and there's …
Carriageworks, Sydney, November 29. Holly Doyle's sweet, sad, funny, goofy, utterly captivating Out, Damned Spot! is exactly why Sydney Dance Company's New Breed exists and why it work…
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney, October 18. Antony Hamilton says his new work for Sydney Dance Company developed from thoughts about order, chaos, human nature and popular culture. And yes, y…
Alice Topp was yesterday named The Australian Ballet's fourth resident choreographer, joining Stephen Baynes and Stanton Welch, (both appointed in 1995) and Tim Harbour (2014). Topp, a coryp…
Sydney Opera House, June 16. Bangarra Dance Theatre, 30 years old next year, has spent its existence opening doors to this country's ancient past. The audience " a wildly enthusiastic one ea…
In her biography of Robert Helpmann, Robert Helpmann: A Servant of Art, Anna Bemrose describes how Helpmann, then artistic director of The Australian Ballet, was grilled by the Industries As…
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, May 26. You win some and you lose some. Queensland Ballet is a co-producer of Carlos Acosta's Carmen with The Royal Ballet and Texas Ballet Theater, whi…
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney, May 15. This one is all about the dancers. It's about how, to the audience, they look, feel and taste. How astonishing they are in form and function. How magni…
Sydney Opera House, April 6 (evening) and 11 (matinee). It would have been the easiest thing in the world to give Graeme Murphy a conventional gala to celebrate his 50 years of association w…
Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, March 16. La Bayadère is a difficult ballet to take seriously in the 21st century and Queensland Ballet's new production does it few favours. D…
Split, Lucy Guerin Inc. AC Main Arts Theatre, Adelaide. March 3. Memorial, Brink Productions, Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide, March 3. The opening weekend of this year's Adelaide Festival, the …
Biographies of the new intake at Royal New Zealand Ballet are now on the website after last year's bruising and very public exodus of a large number of dancers. There are currently 32 dancer…
Michael Clark Company, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, January 30. In the first part of Michael Clark's gorgeous triptych of dances there's an image of quiet, deep reverence enacted by tw…
