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Paquita & La Sylphide. The Australian Ballet
4 September 2013, State Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne This double bill opened with Paquita (or parts of it), a work in the classical tradition of Marius Petipa. It concluded with a...
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Paquita & La Sylphide. A second look
16 November 2013 (matinee), Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House I was startled to see, when looking at the Australian Ballet’s website to check the casting for my Sydney subscription...
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Harry Haythorne (1926–2014)
Harry Haythorne, child performer extraordinaire, well-travelled dancer, ballet master, artistic director, teacher and mentor, has died in Melbourne aged 88. Haythorne was the child of an English...
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Dance diary. March 2015
Hannah O’Neill Although the Paris Opera Ballet’s website is still listing Australian Ballet School graduate Hannah O’Neill as a coryphée on its organisational chart, O’Neill is now a sujet with the...
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The Royal Danish Ballet, 3rd Bournonville Festival [2005]
My recent visit to Copenhagen, and the amazing production of John Neumeier’s Romeo and Juliet I saw there, sent me searching for something I wrote in 2005 for ballet.co in the UK (now DanceTabs). It...
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New Zealand School of Dance Graduation Season, 2018 (1)
Tradition—classical program 21 November 2018. Te Whaea, Wellingtonby Jennifer Shennan New Zealand School of Dance is one school with two discrete streams, Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance....
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Sir Jon Trimmer in open conversation with Garry Trinder
by Jennifer Shennan9 July 2019. New Zealand School of Dance An armchair conversation with Sir Jon Trimmer was the brainchild of Garry Trinder, Director of New Zealand School of Dance. It was...
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Cinderella. Queensland Ballet
5 November 2019, Canberra Theatre Below is a expanded version of my review for The Canberra Times of Queensland Ballet’s Cinderella. The online version of that review is at this link. Cinderella....
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Paquita & La Sylphide. The Australian Ballet. 2020 Digital Season
I saw this program twice in 2013 and have to admit that, apart from outstanding performances by one or two dancers in each of the casts I saw, I was somewhat underwhelmed. But this screening by the...
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The Royal Danish Ballet. Jacob’s Pillow Virtual Festival 2020
The Royal Danish Ballet has had a close relationship with Jacob’s Pillow, that beautiful dance venue in the Berkshires in Massachusetts, since the 1950s. Ted Shawn, founder of the Pillow, was even...
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