Dance diary: March 2012
Kristian Fredrikson in New Zealand In March I spent a week in Wellington, New Zealand, looking into the work made by Kristian Fredrikson for the Royal New Zealand Ballet and Wellington City Opera. I...
View ArticleGraeme Murphy’s ‘Swan Lake’: the Australian Ballet (2013)
22 June 2013 (matinee), State Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne Artists of the Australian Ballet in Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake, ca. 2003 The first thing to say about this performance of Graeme...
View Article‘The Listeners': a ballet by Joanna Priest
Towards the end of research for my forthcoming publication, Dame Maggie Scott: a life in dance, an item relating to Joanna Priest’s ballet The Listeners emerged, quite unexpectedly. I had briefly...
View ArticleHarry Haythorne (1926–2014)
Harry Haythorne, child performer extraordinaire, well-travelled dancer, ballet master, artistic director, teacher and mentor, has died in Melbourne aged 88. Harry Haythorne, ca. 2000. Courtesy Ausdance...
View ArticleHarry Haythorne: a tribute from Jennifer Shennan
In September 2013 Anne Rowse and I flew to Melbourne for the Arts Festival…mainly in pursuit of Fabulous Beast, with Keegan-Dolan’s astonishing double-bill of Petrushka and The Rite of Spring. We...
View ArticleHarry Haythorne: What a Star!
At the end of this month, members of the dance community will come together in both Melbourne and Wellington, to honour Harry Haythorne who died in November 2014. Today Philippe Charluet, film maker...
View ArticleDance diary: February 2015
Kristian Fredrikson Now that my book, Dame Maggie Scott: a life in dance, has been published, I have returned to my research into the life and art of Kristian Fredrikson. My article ‘Undercover...
View ArticleDance diary: August 2015
New Breed: Sydney Dance Company Early in August Sydney Dance Company announced the four recipients of commissions to create works for the company’s New Breed initiative. Kristina Chan, Fiona Jopp,...
View ArticleAn Australasian affair …
There was one empty seat in the front row at the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s inaugural Harry Haythorne choreographic awards last weekend…odd since a good view in a studio setting is always at a premium...
View ArticleDance diary: March 2012
Kristian Fredrikson in New Zealand In March I spent a week in Wellington, New Zealand, looking into the work made by Kristian Fredrikson for the Royal New Zealand Ballet and Wellington City Opera. I...
View ArticleGraeme Murphy’s ‘Swan Lake’: the Australian Ballet (2013)
22 June 2013 (matinee), State Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne Artists of the Australian Ballet in Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake, ca. 2003 The first thing to say about this performance of Graeme...
View Article‘The Listeners’: a ballet by Joanna Priest
Towards the end of research for my forthcoming publication, Dame Maggie Scott: a life in dance, an item relating to Joanna Priest’s ballet The Listeners emerged, quite unexpectedly. I had briefly...
View ArticleHarry Haythorne (1926–2014)
Harry Haythorne, child performer extraordinaire, well-travelled dancer, ballet master, artistic director, teacher and mentor, has died in Melbourne aged 88. Harry Haythorne, ca. 2000. Courtesy Ausdance...
View ArticleHarry Haythorne: a tribute from Jennifer Shennan
In September 2013 Anne Rowse and I flew to Melbourne for the Arts Festival…mainly in pursuit of Fabulous Beast, with Keegan-Dolan’s astonishing double-bill of Petrushka and The Rite of Spring. We...
View ArticleHarry Haythorne: What a Star!
At the end of this month, members of the dance community will come together in both Melbourne and Wellington, to honour Harry Haythorne who died in November 2014. Today Philippe Charluet, film maker...
View ArticleDance diary: February 2015
Kristian Fredrikson Now that my book, Dame Maggie Scott: a life in dance, has been published, I have returned to my research into the life and art of Kristian Fredrikson. My article ‘Undercover...
View ArticleDance diary: August 2015
New Breed: Sydney Dance Company Early in August Sydney Dance Company announced the four recipients of commissions to create works for the company’s New Breed initiative. Kristina Chan, Fiona Jopp,...
View ArticleAn Australasian affair …
There was one empty seat in the front row at the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s inaugural Harry Haythorne choreographic awards last weekend…odd since a good view in a studio setting is always at a premium...
View ArticleThe Royal New Zealand Ballet at 60. Jennifer Shennan & Anne Rowse
This handsomely produced book celebrates sixty years of performances by the Royal New Zealand Ballet. I say handsomely produced because its square-ish format is aesthetically pleasing and easy to hold...
View ArticleJonathan Taylor (1941–2019)
I’ve never done anything else but dance … * Jonathan Taylor, dancer, choreographer and artistic director of Australian Dance Theatre from 1976 to 1985, has died in Melbourne at the age of 77. Taylor...
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