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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The Australian Ballet and GWB Entertainment have announced that charismatic Broadway and West End leads Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope will reprise their show-stopping turns as the American GI Jerry Mulligan and the young Parisian dancer Lise Dassin in Australia in An American In Paris, with two of the country’s leading lights Cameron Holmes and Dimity […]

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Sydney Opera House, Sydney.12 April 2021.  The Australian Ballet is back in Sydney, after a long break due to COVID, and the Sydney audiences have been counting down for this new season to commence. The anticipation and excitement for live performance has been such a build-up after everything that happened in 2020. With the drought […]

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Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 15 May 2017 This glorious revival of Graeme Murphy’s Nutcracker: The Story of Clara by The Australian Ballet enchants and delights. Now regarded as a classic (hard to believe it is now 25 years since its first production!), it is full of references to the “traditional” Petipa version of 1892, while […]

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For the first time, The Australian Ballet School will be offering students from around Australia and internationally the opportunity to take part in The Australian Ballet School Scholarship Awards. The inaugural Scholarship Awards will provide a pathway for students to display their artistic and technical abilities, through masterclasses and performance. In addition to the support […]

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Christmas is all about giving, but that doesn’t have to mean spending money. As dancers, we are blessed with the opportunity to spread joy year-round, and what better time to appreciate this than at Christmas? Dance Informa spoke to professional dancers around Australia about what the “gift of dance” means to them, and how we […]

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By Grace Gassin of Dance Informa. Canberra-born Australian Ballet coryphée Dimity Azoury beat five other finalists late last year to become Telstra Ballet Dancer of the Year 2014. Recognised as one of the nation’s most prestigious ballet prizes, the Award is worth a cool $20,000. Perth’s Imogen Chapman won the Telstra People’s Choice Award, worth […]

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