Dimity Azoury. 2014 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award
…able to help my friends bring their vision to the stage.’ Dimity Azoury in Vivienne Wong’s Touch Transfer, Bodytorque Muses, 2011. Photo: © Jess Bialek The year long journey as a Telstra nominee has proven to be an exciting one for Azoury. She looks back with particular pleasure on making the video each of the six nominees created as part of the year’s work. ‘We were given a lot of freedom. We were each given a colour and an element to work with —…
Faster. The Australian Ballet
…new work and certainly made my night at the ballet worthwhile. I look forward to a second viewing. Michelle Potter, 14 April 2017 Featured image: Brett Chynoweth, Vivienne Wong and Kevin Jackson in Squander and Glory. The Australian Ballet, 2017. Photo: © Daniel Boud…
La Bayadère. The Australian Ballet
29 August (evening) and 30 August (matinee), 2014. State Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne Stanton Welch made his new version of La Bayadère for Houston Ballet, of which he has been artistic director for ten years. Its premiere was in 2010. He has now restaged it for the Australian Ballet, where he still holds the position of resident choreographer. It was always going to be a problematic ballet: an updated version of a work that is entre…
20:21. Another look
14 November 2015 (matinee), Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House What a pleasure it was to see the Australian Ballet’s triple bill program, 20:21, for a second time, in a different theatre, and with a different cast. Clearly the dancers have become more familiar with the works over the series of performances that have been staged since I saw it in Melbourne. I suspect it also looks better on the smaller stage of the Sydney Opera House (for…
Symphony in C. The Australian Ballet
29 April 2016, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House Artists of the Australian Ballet in George Balanchine’s Symphony in C, 2016. Photo: © Daniel Boud My review of the Australian Ballet’s Symphony in C program has now been published on DanceTabs. The program consisted of George Balanchine’s Symphony in C Victor Gsovsky’s Grand pas classique Agrippina Vaganova’s Diana and Acteon pas de deux Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain pas de deux R…