Thursday, August 4

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The Royal New Zealand Ballet presents a "Cinderella" with two male leads.

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The RNZB production pushes the boundaries of the traditional Cinderella storyline, following the love story between Prince Charming and Prince Dashing.

“We’re lucky that we get to be a part of it and that we as the Royal New Zealand Ballet are one of the first in the world to do something like this,” says the dancer

 

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The headquarters of Queensland Ballet is renovated and expanded.

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Works included the refurbishment of the existing centre with the addition of a new three-storey extension to make way for six dance studios, a performance and wellness centre, expanded wardrobe and production facilities, a roof terrace, cafe and function spaces. Five historic air raid shelters have also been converted into a “bunker bar” that will be ready to host exclusive hospitality experiences from next year.

 

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The Osage Ballet performs this month.

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After a two year postponement due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, a ballet telling the story of an Indian Nation is coming to Branson.

 

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 A review of Alonzo King's LINES Ballet by Janine Parker in The Boston Globe.

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While this juxtapositional physicality is, in King’s choreography, usually imbued with a creamy texture, there are some purposely jarring images, as in “Writing Ground,” the excerpt from the 2010 “Over My Head,” set to a gorgeous recording of Kathleen Battle singing the traditional song of the title. Madeline DeVries, another star in King’s galaxy, bumbles about on awkwardly tottering, turned-in legs, or flops over like a rag doll at the end of her rope, but presses on nonetheless.