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Metropolitan Opera House, New York, May 29 and May 30. WHEN Serge Diaghilev decided to stage The Sleeping Beauty in London the monumental Russian Imperial-era ballet was not an obvious stabl…
Sydney Opera House, June 3 MARK Morris is a master of light. You see this in all sorts of ways: the deeply satisfying structures where formality is leavened by little quirks and surprises; u…
American Ballet Theatre, May 28 IN the life of an inveterate dance-lover there are many Giselles and many new insights into the ballet and its characters, or at least one always goes in hope…
Giselle, American Ballet Theatre, May 23;Â La Sylphide, New York City Ballet, May 24;Â All Robbins, New York City Ballet, May 26 IF this had been The Australian Ballet, this is what woul…
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Belasco Theatre, May 21;Â An American in Paris, Palace Theatre, May 22;Â The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Polonsky Shakespeare Centre, Brooklyn, May 23 (matinee);�…
Hayes Theatre Co, May 7 IN February 2012 The New York Times published a short article about Dogfight, which would have its Off-Broadway premiere six months later at Second Stage Theater. Thi…
Sydney Opera House, April 29. THE Australian Ballet's first staging of Frederick Ashton's Symphonic Variations alongside revivals of his coolly mysterious Monotones II and lucid, delightful …
See, they say 'Get to your homes ASAP, stay inside, stay protected, don't drive unless absolutely necessary and stay away from waterways' and I hear 'Hop in your Holden and get on down to si…
Robert Curran was a long-serving principal artist with The Australian Ballet, from which he retired in 2011. He’s now leading a small company in the United States and relishing a role …
Sydney Opera House, April 2, 4 and 7 TWO and bit years ago, when Paris Opera Ballet came to Sydney with its production of Giselle, I was able to see three excitingly different readings of th…
Les Misérables, Capitol Theatre, Sydney, April 26;Â Aida, Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, Fleet Steps, Sydney, April 27 A COUPLE of years ago I interviewed Stephen Sondheim ahead of the Me…
Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, May 20. IN August Bournonville's enduringly popular Romantic ballet, a young man dozes by a vast open fireplace and is woken by an app…
Sydney Theatre, March 9 and 10. IT was a great coup for Rafael Bonachela to secure William Forsythe's Quintett for Sydney Dance Company. It is a jewel of the contemporary repertoire with so …
Sydney Opera House, February 28 IN the guise of a sweet and playful romance, As You Like It drives its characters (and ourselves) to seek answers to life's deepest questions. Who am I? What …
Capitol Theatre, Sydney, February 20 and February 24. GRAEME Murphy's Swan Lake has been a touchstone production – and a fortunate one – not only for The Australian Ballet as a w…
Belvoir, February 18 KILL the Messenger is as simple as theatre gets. There's a bare space " designer Ralph Myers in particularly pared-back mode " and some projected photographs, five actor…
Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney, February 10. WILLY Russell isn't a great lyricist and not much more than a journeyman composer but he's no slouch with a heart-tugging story as his life-affirming p…
Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby. Royal Court Theatre and Lisa Dwan, State Theatre Centre of WA, February 14. Mozart Dances, Mark Morris Dance Group, His Majesty's Theatre, February 13. THERE were …
One of the key works of the 2015 Perth International Arts Festival is Mark Morris's Mozart Dances from 2006. There will be four performances only, on February 13, 14 and 15. PIAF artistic di…
Force Majeure, Carriageworks, January 22. IN her 10 years at Force Majeure, the company she founded and which she now leaves, Kate Champion's material has included the ageing process, near-d…
Sydney Festival Parramatta Program, January 23 PUNCTURE starts with "Hello" and ends with "I love you". Has there been anything more life-affirming than this at the 2015 Sydney Festival? I d…
Next to Normal, Doorstep Arts in association with Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney, January 15. Sweet Charity, Sydney Opera House, January 16, 2015 IF there is a choice to be made between darkness a…
AS I foreshadowed on December 15 on my Diary page, Queensland Ballet has lost one of its principal artists, Natasha Kusch, to The Australian Ballet. Kusch was with QB for less than 18 months…
Dancing for the Gods, Chitrasena Dance Company for the Sydney Festival, January 8. IF there is a more immediately captivating dancer than Thaji Dias, I have yet to see her, or him. Dias is t…
Volatile personalities, free speech, free tickets and the free language almost obligatory when publishing online " look at me, please!! " tangled at the weekend when a dispute between Opera …
