Hamburg Ballet @ Brisbane Festival
By Elizabeth Ashley. QPAC and Events Queensland in association with the Brisbane Festival continue to present challenging, innovative dance companies and their works to an Australian audience. This...
View ArticleNijinsky, the Grand Portrait
Nijinsky -The Hamburg Ballet Queensland Performing Arts Centre 26 August 2012 By Elizabeth Ashley The Hamburg Ballet’s choreographer John Neumeier found it fitting that “the 40th season of my company...
View ArticlePeter Pan for Ballet Theatre of Queensland
By Rain Francis. Earlier last year, Ballet Theatre of Queensland took an exciting new turn. The state’s leading youth ballet company appointed not one but two new Artistic Directors, Timothy Brown and...
View ArticleBallet Theatre of Queensland’s ‘Peter Pan’
Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre January 23 2013 By Belinda Williamson. Welcome to Neverland! Ballet Theatre of Queensland recently took audiences to Neverland and beyond with their...
View ArticleBangarra Dance Theatre’s latest, ‘Blak’
By Grace Edwards. Drawing on the cumulative life experiences of the company’s fourteen members, Bangarra Dance Theatre’s forthcoming production Blak explores rites of passage – the rituals that mark...
View ArticleCinderella – Queensland Ballet
Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane April 13, 2013 By Belinda Williamson. Queensland Ballet’s Cinderella recently entertained Brisbane audiences with its modern take on the...
View ArticleBolshoi Ballet regional Queensland live simulcast
Audiences across Queensland will have the chance to experience the grandeur of Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet via live simulcast from the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) on Tuesday 4 June 2013. The...
View Article‘Le Corsaire’ – The Bolshoi Ballet
QPAC, Brisbane 30 May, 2013 By Belinda Williamson. Having seen many, many professional ballet companies perform in my lifetime (good and bad), I can say with absolute confidence that The Bolshoi Ballet...
View ArticleLeading cast announced for ‘The King And I’
Broadway hit The King and I is coming to Australia in April next year and Lisa McCune and Teddy Tahu Rhodes will co-star in the Tony Award-winning production. The King and I, being revived by the...
View ArticleHayden Hopkins takes away top prize for Dance Upon A Dream Season 2
By Chelsea Thomas and Deborah Searle of Dance Informa. Sometimes the best decisions are made on a whim, completely spontaneously. At least for dancer Hayden Hopkins, this is true. With only a few...
View ArticleThe King and I – Win Tickets!
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic Broadway musical The King and I is returning to Australia with strictly limited seasons in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. The King and I was Rodgers and Hammerstein’s...
View ArticleSOLO Festival of Dance
Queensland Performing Arts Centre May 15, 2014 By Marc Clayton of Dance Informa. Expressions Dance Company (EDC) brought together an amazing collection of Australia’s finest dancers in their staging of...
View ArticleExpressions Dance Company – The Red Shoes
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane July 18, 2014 By Emi Clayton for Dance Informa. Natalie Weir’s Masterpiece, The Red Shoes’ world premiere coincided with Expression Dance Company’s (EDC)...
View ArticleAmerican Ballet Theatre remasters classic ‘Swan Lake’
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane August 28, 2014 By Elizabeth Ashley of Dance Informa. Since 2010, the Brisbane Festival under Artistic Director Noel Staunton has had the privilege of...
View ArticleAmerican Ballet Theatre presents ‘Three Masterpieces’
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane September 5, 2014 By Belinda Williamson of Dance Informa. It was an exciting night to see the opening performance of Three Masterpieces by the world...
View ArticleQueensland Ballet Principal Clare Morehen
By Rain Francis of Dance Informa. When you’re at the top of your game, what is life in a ballet company really like? Queensland Ballet’s principal dancer Clare Morehen tells her story. “I have always...
View ArticleA Wicked New Role: Suzie Mathers talks Glinda
By Kristy Johnson of Dance Informa. With Lucy Durack leaving the stage to take on her next “thrillifying” role as a mother, comes news that original ensemble member Suzie Mathers will be taking over...
View ArticleFrom Cuba to Queensland: Yanela Pinera and Camilo Ramos join Queensland Ballet
During a visit to Cuba in 2014, Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director Li Cunxin was moved by the work of two dancers, Yanela Piňera and Camilo Ramos. So much so, in fact, that he invited them to join...
View ArticleExpressions Dance Company presents ‘7 Deadly Sins’
Expressions Dance Company indulges its dark side this month, with the world premiere of 7 Deadly Sins. The brand new work by award-winning Artistic Director Natalie Weir will be presented as part of...
View Article‘Coup Fatal’ presents the magical chaos of the Congo
Queensland Performing Arts Centre. September 6, 2015. Coup Fatal opens with a Monteverdi overture that becomes a duet between an electric guitar and a thumb piano before it winds its way into an...
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