Sunday, June 30, 2019
Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane, June 28 Synergy is a small, unpretentious program that’s partly a place where emerging choreographers can test their capabilities an…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 09:32PMMonday, June 17, 2019
Bangarra Dance Theatre, Sydney Opera House, June 14 What a marvellous idea to include Jiří Kylián’s Stamping Ground in this celebration of Bangarra’s three decades of dance. It’s …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 10:20PMWednesday, May 22, 2019
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, May 17 and 18 (matinee) Old politicians are never the ones who die in battle, are they? Jiří Kylián’s Soldier’s Mass (1980) isn’t the o…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 11:00PMThursday, May 16, 2019
The Australian Ballet, Sydney Opera House, May 8 For many ballet-lovers the second act of Giselle is what brings them back repeatedly and Maina Gielgud’s much-revived production for The A…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 08:46PMThursday, May 2, 2019
Sydney Opera House, May 1 Graeme Murphy fell ill earlier this year and was unable to complete his new ballet, The Happy Prince, in time for its premiere in Melbourne, which was to have been …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 10:27PMThursday, April 11, 2019
Sydney Opera House, April 5 The Australian Ballet’s contemporary triple bill Verve, having a Sydney season this year after its premiere in Melbourne last year, presents works from the comp…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:47AMSunday, April 7, 2019
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney, March 27 Bonachela/Nankivell/Lane ushers in Sydney Dance Company’s 50th anniversary celebrations with three works that foreground the dancers. There are ap…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:27AMMonday, April 1, 2019
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, March 23. Dangerous Liaisons is not suitable for children, advises Queensland Ballet. Too true. Sex is the currency in this world and there’s …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:46AMThursday, December 6, 2018
Carriageworks, Sydney, November 29. Holly Doyle’s sweet, sad, funny, goofy, utterly captivating Out, Damned Spot! is exactly why Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed exists and why it work…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:55AMSaturday, October 20, 2018
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney, October 18. Antony Hamilton says his new work for Sydney Dance Company developed from thoughts about order, chaos, human nature and popular culture. And yes, y…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:18AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
Alice Topp was yesterday named The Australian Ballet’s fourth resident choreographer, joining Stephen Baynes and Stanton Welch, (both appointed in 1995) and Tim Harbour (2014). Topp, a cor…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 03:05AMFriday, June 22, 2018
Sydney Opera House, June 16. Bangarra Dance Theatre, 30 years old next year, has spent its existence opening doors to this country’s ancient past. The audience – a wildly enthusiastic on…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 03:42AMThursday, June 7, 2018
In her biography of Robert Helpmann, Robert Helpmann: A Servant of Art, Anna Bemrose describes how Helpmann, then artistic director of The Australian Ballet, was grilled by the Industries As…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:02AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, May 26. You win some and you lose some. Queensland Ballet is a co-producer of Carlos Acosta’s Carmen with The Royal Ballet and Texas Ballet Theater, whi…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:33AMSunday, May 20, 2018
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney, May 15. This one is all about the dancers. It’s about how, to the audience, they look, feel and taste. How astonishing they are in form and function. How mag…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:55AMThursday, April 12, 2018
Sydney Opera House, April 6 (evening) and 11 (matinee). It would have been the easiest thing in the world to give Graeme Murphy a conventional gala to celebrate his 50 years of association w…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 11:25PMThursday, March 22, 2018
Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, March 16. La Bayadère is a difficult ballet to take seriously in the 21st century and Queensland Ballet’s new production does it few favours.…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:28AMWednesday, March 7, 2018
Split, Lucy Guerin Inc. AC Main Arts Theatre, Adelaide. March 3. Memorial, Brink Productions, Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide, March 3. The opening weekend of this year’s Adelaide Festival, th…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:50AMWednesday, February 7, 2018
Biographies of the new intake at Royal New Zealand Ballet are now on the website after last year’s bruising and very public exodus of a large number of dancers. There are currently 32 danc…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:24AMThursday, February 1, 2018
Michael Clark Company, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, January 30. In the first part of Michael Clark’s gorgeous triptych of dances there’s an image of quiet, deep reverence enacted b…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 11:38PMSunday, January 14, 2018
Ghenoa Gela won the biennial Keir Choreographic Award in 2016 with a work infused with her Torres Strait Islander heritage while posing resonant questions about meanings inherent in or impos…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 11:36PMTuesday, January 9, 2018
Sydney Festival, Carriageworks, January 6 Heather Mitchell is one of the great treasures of the Australian stage and any chance to see her must be grabbed eagerly, as proved to be the case e…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:01AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
My first Artist of the Year, in 2015, was operatic mezzo, cabaret sensation, music-theatre star and all-round fine human being Jacqueline Dark. Last year I went for a large, disparate group …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:16AMMonday, December 18, 2017
What possessed the Board of Royal New Zealand Ballet to assert in its statement of December 15 that 42% of the dancers are either New Zealanders or trained in New Zealand and that next year…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:23AMThursday, December 14, 2017
Royal New Zealand Ballet today announced it has commissioned an independent review of its employment processes. This follows two weeks of intense scrutiny about dancer turnover, opportunitie…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 11:24PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
On Monday Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Board of Trustees chair Steven Fyfe put out a statement addressing concerns raised over the past two weeks about the company. In a lengthy official res…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:27AMSaturday, December 9, 2017
The party to mark Royal New Zealand Ballet’s 60th anniversary was in full swing at Wellington’s St James Theatre when the earthquake struck. The special matinee performance of Swan Lake …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:33AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Carriageworks, Sydney, November 30. What a great night of dance – all of it brand spanking new, performed by some of the best movers on the planet and offered to the public at $35 a ti…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 10:02PMMonday, December 4, 2017
It’s always been Royal New Zealand Ballet’s fate to have a certain amount of churn. It’s a small country a long way from the big ballet centres of the world. When dancers leave, artist…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 05:07PMSunday, December 3, 2017
On Friday, when I wrote the piece below, it was understood that no 2017 graduates of the New Zealand School of Dance had been offered positions for 2018 with Royal New Zealand Ballet. The sc…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 04:47PMFriday, December 1, 2017
Royal New Zealand Ballet artistic director Patricia Barker will preside over a significantly different group of dancers next year from those the American inherited when she was appointed to …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:34AM 
