On 20 May, on the stage of the Sydney Opera House, dancer Lilla Harvey was announced the winner of the 2023 Telstra Ballet Dancer Awards and bestowed the prestigious Telstra Rising Star Award. Joining Harvey centre-stage, Soloist Isobelle Dashwood was named the winner of the Telstra People’s Choice Award. As The Australian Ballet and Telstra […]

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Audiences can expect an emotional and captivating journey through dance when Queensland Ballet presents its highly anticipated 60thAnniversary Gala at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) from March 5 to March 20. From Jacqui Carroll’s powerful and exhilarating Carmina Burana, to François Klaus’s nostalgic Cloudland, the company will rewind the clock to present its most beloved works. On April 29, 1960, Charles Lisner presented The First […]

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Six dancers with The Australian Ballet have been announced as nominees for the prestigious Telstra Ballet Dancer Award 2018. Now in its 16th year, the Telstra Ballet Dancer Award is one of the longest-running arts partnerships and most prestigious ballet prizes in the country. Seven former winners of the award went on to become principal artists […]

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CinemaLive, one of the market leaders in Event Cinema, is working in partnership with The Australian Ballet to deliver The Fairy Tale Series, a sequence of three world premiere screenings, to global cinema audiences. This effort allows these world-class productions to be seen by national and international audiences. After a festive run at the iconic […]

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Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne.  September 9, 2016.  With stunning sets, costumes and a wildly dramatic narrative, John Neumeier’s Nijinsky is the epitome of a grand production. The choreographer – and director of Hamburg Ballet – created the work in 2000; however, his career is said to have been shaped around the work of Vaslav Nijinsky, […]

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Australian Ballet Coryphée Benedicte Bemet has been named the 2015 winner of the Telstra Ballet Dancer Award. The news was announced recently at the Sydney Opera House. She won the grand prize of $20,000! “We were called onto the stage, and David McAllister announced it,” recalls Bemet. “We were given bouquets of flowers and our […]

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Arts Centre, Melbourne. September 15, 2015. David McAllister will naturally be hoping that his much anticipated production of The Sleeping Beauty becomes the new staple of the company’s repertoire. Given that his only prior choreographic offering was a brief contribution to the Australian Ballet’s 50th Anniversary Gala in 2012, this is no small wish. While his […]

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At just 24 years of age, Ako Kondo has become the Australian Ballet’s newest Principal Artist. Her promotion was announced on stage at the Sydney Opera House last month after a performance of Giselle in which Ako danced the lead role partnered by her professional and real-life romantic partner, Principal Artist Chengwu Guo. The achievement […]

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Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House November 6, 2014 By Deborah Searle of Dance Informa. Stanton Welch’s La Bayadère is a sumptuous, exotic display of ballet prowess. It was a joy to see a ballet set in mythic India with Arabian flare, gods and sequins, all in Australia’s most famous theatre, the Sydney Opera House’s […]

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The Australian Ballet Sydney Theatre May 2010 By Dolce Fisher This year’s theme for Bodytorque was ‘Muses’, a subject interpreted differently by each budding choreographer. The audience was treated to a smorgasbord of different dance styles, with displays of strong classical ballet, modern and contemporary dance. Tristan and Isolde by Daniel Gaudiello was classic in […]

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