226 stories by "Deborah Jones"
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 " …
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 what…
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 suis C…
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…
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, and …
Bangarra Dance Theatre, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, June 16 Bangarra offers balm in a fractured, fractious world. As always the work is radiantly lovely, but more important are underl…
In what has become a tradition at The Australian Ballet, Robyn Hendricks was promoted on stage on Friday in Melbourne to the highest rank of principal artist. She was elevated by artistic di…
A recent holiday took me entirely away from all daily cares and the internet. There was no email, no Twitter, no Facebook, nothing. I heartily recommend it. Now back to Sydney theatre … Sy…
Last week there was only one story … Berlin has a population of about 3.5 million. Its three opera companies " Deutsche Oper Belin, Deutsche Staatsoper and Komische Oper – are fu…
