Dear Colin With such a packed schedule for your 50th year, how does the company balance current and upcoming productions? And in a year when the dancers will be performing so many ballets, including ...
As part of our Let’s Dance program, Queensland Ballet will show excerpts from François Klaus’ Cloudland, which evokes the romance of Brisbane’s Cloudland ballroom. Lucy Brook looks ...
In a suburban street in Adelaide, a 98-year old woman lives with her dog, Mischa. He’s the second dog in her life, following Sasa, named in memory of her former mentor in Prague. Zora Semberova can’t...
[Show as slideshow] Tim Harbour, who made the ballet Halcyon on The Australian Ballet in 2010 (and has also made works for Christopher Wheeldon’s Morphoses and New York City Ballet, amon...
Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (1833) is one of Russian literature’s most famous works. This “Novel in Verse” is an intriguing combination of poem and prose. Maybe that’s w...
In Episode #3 of our ten-part series on life inside our company, the dancers arrive in Brisbane to perform Romeo & Juliet, and Senior Artist Amy Harris shows us how she makes her dressing room in...
How times have changed in the ballet world! It used to be that starting a family spelt the end of a female dancer’s career. Not so at The Australian Ballet, where a progressive maternity scheme...
Lisa Bolte, fomerly one of our most talented principal artists (and now part of our Philanthropy department) shares her memories of Onegin and tells us why it’s one of the greats. I saw Onegin ...
[Show as slideshow] We’re getting pretty excited about hosting the nation’s finest in our Let’s Dance program in June. Here’s a sneak peek at the companies (and some of the wo...
[Show as slideshow] This photo gallery from the dress rehearsal of Onegin gives you a good close-up of the majestic ballroom scene of Act III. The heartbroken ingenue Tatiana is now the flower...
Our dance card is full for Melbourne in June! The Let’s Dance program will feature The Australian Ballet’s past and future stars, who’ll share the stage with seven of the country...
We sat down with Principal Artist and Education Ambassador Amber Scott to talk about her best moments on stage, how she prepares for performances, how she looks after her body and why she’s always wa...
[Show as slideshow] Buttons and bows and furbelows – in the months leading up to our May 1 opening of Onegin, the wardrobe department have been hard at work sprucing up its costumes, met...
When classical dancers talk career aspirations, Cranko’s Onegin comes up again and again. So what is it about the ballet that dancers love? Four of our principal artists – Adam Bull, Ambe...
Patrick Thaiday will be retiring from Bangarra Dance Theatre after tomorrow’s final performance of Warumuk – in the dark night. On the eve of his new adventures, he talks to The Australia...
So many red dresses! We’ve loved the fiery parade of your glamorous favourites – some instantly recognisable classics, some quirky surprises, and in all shades of candy-apple, fire-engine...
Fiona Tonkin, former principal artist of The Australian Ballet and now the company’s principal coach and ballet mistress, was herself coached by Marcia Haydée, the original Tatiana, and is now workin...
Crackling water bottles, whale music, vibraslaps – what’s going on in that orchestra pit during Infinity? Jane Albert finds out. They call it “the Brett Dean diet”, a tongue-i...
Our specially trained Dance Education Ensemble travels to over 80 schools each year to introduce primary-school age children to the love of movement and teach them something about diffrerent types of...
In 2007, the dance community was stunned when talented dancer and choreographer Tanja Liedtke, who was shortly to become the new artistic director of Sydney Dance Company, was struck by a truck and k...
All of us at Ballet HQ are getting chills about the upcoming Onegin (so close – it opens in Sydney on 1 May!). For those of you who haven’t seen it, and may not know what all the fuss is about, we as...
Sydney, get ready – the scintillating Infinity program is coming your way. Today! The sinuous intricacies of Graeme Murphy’s The Narrative of Nothing, the hilarity and heart searching of ...
At The Australian Ballet, we are honoured to have three top-flight pianists who play for us in morning class and rehearsals. In this very special podcast, Emma Lippa, Duncan Salton and Stuart Macklin...
Welcome to our new ten-part series, in which we’ll take you behind the scenes to show life in the company through the eyes of Senior Artist Amy Harris and Corps de Ballet member Jake Mangakahia...
Here we have Principal Artist Amber Scott, wearing the much-coveted red ball dress from the third act of the ballet Onegin – the one in which Tatiana captivates the world-weary sophisticate who...
Juliet Capulet: even the name has a melodic sound to it. There is something altogether enchanting about the heroine who takes her own life rather than live without her beloved Romeo. She is a young w...
Art Nouveau goddess Loie Fuller unveiled modern movement to the European dance and art worlds. Without any formal training, she began her career in the USA in late 19th-century burlesque (which at th...
What do you feed a ballerina? We talked to Mick Moore, the chef of the Dancers’ Deli here at The Primrose Potter Ballet Centre, about what makes his job special. What do people say when you tel...
Romeo and Juliet – the billing’s pretty clear. Romeo is the hero of this piece. But if that’s so, why does our attention so often drift to his super-cool best friend? The one with a...
Geoffrey Drake-Brockman’s The Coppélia Project is a modern artistic exploration of the 1868 ballet Coppélia by Delibes. Drake-Brockman is a Perth-based artist who specialises in robotics, lasers and ...
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