309 stories from deborahjones.me
THE quiet suburban studio where seven young women are taking class is nothing special; just the usual anonymous space with an array of barres and a piano in the corner. What lifts it out of …
Carriageworks, Sydney, November 27. OCHRES is embedded in Bangarra history and the memories of dance-lovers. Created in the company's early days, not long after Stephen Page became artistic …
Queensland Theatre Company, Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, November 19 BY the end of Ladies in Black its sweet, gawky duckling of a heroine has been transformed into a soig…
Squabbalogic Independent Music Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney, November 20. On Monday night I went to an inspiring meeting in Sydney organised by Women in Theatre and Screen " WITS " to dis…
Carriageworks, Sydney, November 17. As the audience entered the large Carriageworks auditorium Xavier Le Roy was already in attendance, looking about in mildly interested fashion. Dressed in…
Sydney Opera House, November 5 After a year dominated by Giselle, Frederick Ashton's The Dream, Alexei Ratmansky's Cinderella, the lavish new Sleeping Beauty and Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake, t…
Lyric Theatre, Brisbane, October 23 and October 24 It is something of an understatement to say Greg Horsman knows The Sleeping Beauty well. Not only was it the first ballet he saw, the one t…
Belvoir, September 23 Nikolai Ivanov sits on a sofa looking desolate as the Lebedevs' party swirls around him. He's heading towards 40, he has no money, his relations give him grief, he's gi…
A year into his artistic directorship, Francesco Ventriglia talks about his goals for Royal New Zealand Ballet and his first program for the company  "My life is where I can have a theatr…
Sydney Dance Company with ACO2 and Katie Noonan. Roslyn Packer Theatre Walsh Bay, Sydney, September 29. BENJAMIN Britten was in his 20s when he wrote the three works to which Rafael Bonachel…
Dumy Moyi, Carriageworks, Sydney, September 30; Departures, Ken Unsworth Studio, Sydney, October 1. In the recent exhibition of dance and the moving image, 24 Frames per Second, staged beaut…
Melbourne, September 15 THE Australian Ballet and its audiences have a great deal invested in David McAllister's new Sleeping Beauty, in both senses of the word. The first is financial: this…
High Society, Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney, September 7;Â Anything Goes, Sydney Opera House, September 8Â Â Â IN one giddy night of mayhem, pairs of lovers " former, would-be, should-be…
The Aliens, Old Fitz Theatre, August 27; La Traviata, Belvoir Downstairs, September 1; Bull, Old Fitzroy Theatre, September 3 AMERICAN playwright Annie Baker has been mentioned, many times, …
Playhouse, Sydney Opera House, August 21. THE Tempest starts in tumult and ends in calm. Prospero, ejected from his dukedom of Milan 12 years before, is going home. His daughter, Miranda, is…
Matilda the Musical, Lyric Theatre, Sydney I'M sorry. I make no apology for the following revelation because it's relevant. I was the intellectual of the Kindergarten class at St Columba's, …
Sydney Opera House, August 19. LET'S not talk in the past tense about Sylvie Guillem. She may be on her farewell tour but she is still one of the greatest of the greats. Until December, when…
IN his first year as artistic director of Louisville Ballet, in the US state of Kentucky, former Australian Ballet principal dancer Robert Curran has attracted a donation of $US1 million to …
Minetta Lane Theatre, New York, February 9, 2014 Sydney Theatre Company, July 15, 2015 The script for Caryl Churchill's Love and Information gives little away at first glance. There are many…
Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, July 17 HOW can we know the dancer from the dance, asked W.B. Yeats. It's a question embedded in Sue Healey's absorbing On View: Live Portraits…
I DO hope I've got this right. Senator George Brandis is appropriating about $100 million, give or take, from the Australia Council for the Arts so he can give it to applicants approved dire…
CARRIAGEWORKS is Sydney's other great secular cathedral. This vast late-19th century industrial space, originally built as railway workshops to make train carriages for the growing city, is …
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, June 26. TREY McIntyre is a prolific American choreographer who has made more than 100 works " he is only 45 – and is widely known and admired in the…
Sydney Opera House, June 11 IN Frances Rings's Sheoak, her new work for Bangarra Dance Theatre, there is a greatly touching section for two women, on the Sydney opening night danced by Elma …
Belvoir, Sydney, June 10 MOTHER Courage is one of the little people, born somewhere undesirable at the wrong time. A war she didn't have anything to do with starting grinds on, stops for a b…
