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New York Dialects. The Australian Ballet
17 April 2021 (matinee). Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House The first thing to say about this first Sydney program for 2021 from the Australian Ballet is that the dancers look fabulous. They...
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New York City Ballet 2021 Spring Gala. On film
New York City Ballet’s most recent offering in its series ‘From our home to yours’ was a film directed by Sofia Coppola based on a concept by Coppola and Justin Peck. It consisted of excerpts from two...
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Balanchine and Robbins. The Royal Ballet Live, 2021
A recent streamed production by the Royal Ballet paid homage to George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, two American choreographers whose work over the course of the twentieth century was undeniably...
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Dance for Ukraine
Dance for Ukraine, a humanitarian appeal to raise money for Ukraine and its people, was put together and directed by Alina Cojocaru (Romania) and Ivan Putrov (Ukraine). It was staged on 19 March 2022...
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Harlequinade. The Australian Ballet
24 June 2022, online screening Ahead of any further remarks, I have to make it quite clear that basically I am a fan of the work of Alexei Ratmansky. I have been writing about his productions on this...
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The Australian Ballet in 2023
David Hallberg has put together an interesting selection of works for the Australian Ballet’s 2023 season. Perhaps most interesting, or perhaps surprisingly unexpected, is a double bill called...
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Dance diary. May 2023
Jewels. The Australian Ballet I didn’t post a review of the Australian Ballet’s Sydney season of George Balanchine’s Jewels. Somehow I just wasn’t inspired to do so. The way Balanchine groups corps de...
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Jewels. The Australian Ballet
Digital screening, July 2023 (filmed on 6 July during the Melbourne season of Jewels) Given my reaction, or lack of a reaction for the most part, to the live performance of Jewels I saw in Sydney, I...
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Lightscapes. Royal New Zealand Ballet
27 July, 2023. St. James Theatre, Wellington.reviewed by Jennifer Shennan The opening work, Serenade, to Tchaikovsky, is an abstraction of femininity, a favoured topic of Balanchine’s. It was created,...
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Dance diary. August 2023
Recent (and future) reading Jennifer Homans’ recent book Mr B. George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century is perhaps the most spectacularly researched and written dance book I have ever read. As the title...
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