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St Petersburg Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake

St Petersburg Ballet Theatre have produced an excellent show in their current touring production of Swan Lake. There’s something deep and wondrous about a story that still inspires numerous productions (such as last year...

TAB Verve Callum Linnane - photo by Taylor-Ferné Morris

The Australian Ballet: Verve

June 21 - Ballet, Dance

Celebrating outstanding Australian choreographic talent bursting from within the ranks of The Australian Ballet, Verve brings together three high-octane ballets created by past and present company dancers in the State Th...

The Beginning of Nature

June 15 - Dance, Latest Reviews

Based upon rhythms in nature, Garry Stewart’s astonishing new work, which received its Australian premiere performance in the Canberra Theatre last night (14 June), is an extraordinarily poetic exploration of how these r...

NICA Le Sacre - photo by Aaron Walker Photographer

Le Sacré

June 14 - Circus, Dance, Performance

In the first collaboration of its kind in Australian performance history, the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) and The Australian Ballet School (the ABS) come together this June to present an electrifying innovat...

The Merry Widow

June 6 - Ballet, Dance

With a whirl of fabulous frocks and a generous splash of champagne, The Australian Ballet presents a tangled tale of love and diplomacy with The Merry Widow in the State Theatre – Arts Centre Melbourne from 7 June ...

Australia’s major dance companies need to step up on gender equa...

June 4 - Dance, Opinion

The dance sector in Australia has a gender equality problem. While nearly 70% of people working in the industry identify as female, there is a significant gender gap in programming and leadership at the major dance compa...

RED

May 29 - Dance

RED is fearless, RED is fierce, RED is powerful, RED is fraught and is broken, and is still running. Form Dance Projects and Riverside Theatres presents RED – a new work by Liz Lea and Collaborators in the Lennox T...

The Merry Widow

May 28 - Ballet, Dance, Latest Reviews

When Robert Helpmann conceived this version of The Merry Widow for The Australian Ballet in 1975, he created the jewel in the crown of the Company’s repertoire, an enduring and popular work which has become a modern clas...