Wednesday, May 3

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Christopher Wheeldon returns to New York City Ballet to make a new work.

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“There is an ambiguity about non-narrative work that feels both dangerous and exciting,” he said, “especially working the way I do — going into a room with the music and allowing whatever lies beneath to emerge. The challenge is the unknown and the fear of the unknown.” But while getting going was “a bit of a struggle,” he said, “now that I’m in it, it’s great.”

 

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A look at Australian ballet's connections with Australian national identity by Yvette Grant in The Conversation.

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Others celebrated Australian industry. Joanna Priest’s The Lady Augusta (1946) was about the maiden voyage of a steamship along the Murray River to transport wool. Valrene Tweedie’s Wakooka (1955) was about life on a sheep station.

Still others looked to the rich natural environment, such as Martyn’s Voyageur about Australian migratory birds (1956).

 

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Montgomery Ballet performs this month.

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The Spring Concert 2023 will feature "Le Conservatoire" by August Bournonville, a classic ballet that showcases the beauty, grace, and technical skills of Montgomery Ballet's exceptional dancers.

 

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A feature on the painter Kylie Manning, who is working with Christopher Wheeldon on his new ballet, in The New York Times Style Magazine.

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Last fall, Wheeldon, 50, went to see Manning’s paintings at Pace’s Los Angeles gallery and left impressed “by their sense of scale and movement and turbulent use of color and form,” he says. “As you stand in front of the paintings, the figures start to take shape in a very choreographic way.” The pair share a friend who grew up with Manning in Juneau, Alaska, although she spent parts of her childhood in San Blas and Sayulita, Mexico. While she was getting her M.F.A. at the New York Academy of Art, she had a captain’s license to operate 500-ton commercial fishing boats on international waters and spent summers catching salmon on the Pacific Coast; her abiding appreciation for distant horizons and crashing waves comes through in her compositions.