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Dance Australia
June-July 2019Dance Australia is the most respected dance journal in the country. The articles and reviews are written by the cream of Australia’s dance journalists. The beautiful photographs and glossy design make the magazine a work of art in itself –a keepsake for anyone who loves dance.
IN THIS ISSUE
vale jonathan taylor
BARELY had Dame Margaret Scott, AC, DBE, been laid to rest earlier this year when another VIP of the dance world died. Jonathan Taylor had no medals, but he deserved them as much as did Dame Margaret. He was the artistic director of Australian Dance Theatre from 1976 to 1985 and dean of dance at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1988 to 1997. Although he was about 20 years younger than Dame Margaret, they shared a common heritage. Both were dancers with Ballet Rambert, a company whose bold and adventurous spirit reached into Australia through these two pioneers. As Michelle Potter writes in her obituary (p.13), Taylor and his family of wife and three children uprooted their lives in England to come to Adelaide and accept an invitation to…
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bangarra to tour to every capital
2019 is Bangarra Dance Theatre’s 30th anniversary. The company is celebrating with a triple bill, entitled “Bangarra: 30 years of sixty five thousand”, referring to the 65,000 years of Indigenous culture and storytelling from which the company draws inspiration. The tour schedule is Bangarra’s most ambitious to date, and takes in every A ustralian capital city. In recognition of the talent that has come through the company, Frances Rings’s 2004 work, Unaipon (Clan), will be restaged. Unaipon celebrates the life of David Unaipon (1872-1967), whose journey took him from the shores of Lake Alexandrina in the Ngarrindjeri nation to his place on the Australian 50 dollar note. In Unaipon, Rings presents a rich dance portrait of the man who made the connection between aerodynamics and the flight pattern of the boomerang, and…
on light and sound
INDEPENDENT choreographer Rachel Arianne Ogle is presenting consecutive seasons in Perth this June, with a remount of her 2014 work precipice, followed by its sequel i have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night, which had its debut at Melbourne’s Dance Massive in March of this year. Inspired by tectonic shifts, gravitational torsion and states of emotional rupture, precipice sees a dance of abandon and precarious control unfold within an installation of light designed by Benjamin Cisterne and sound by Luke Smiles. This season of precipice will be performed by Tyrone Robinson, Niharika Senapati, Yilin Kong and Imanuel Dado and will run from May 9 to June 1 at the State Theatre Centre of WA. (www.ptt.wa.gov.au) Bringing together the same creative team as precipice, i have loved the…
balanchine workshops
THIS July, International Ballet Workshops will be offering students in Australia and New Zealand a rare opportunity to learn the Balanchine Style and Technique . International guest teacher Elizabeth Walker will be travelling from New York to join the workshops. Walker spent 19 years with New York City Ballet, during which time she performed multiple principal roles by George Balanchine and Peter Martins, and was a featured dancer/demonstrator in the video series “Balanchine Essays”, a visual catalogue of Balanchine’s teaching points and style. She has taught for many years, including for six years on the faculty at the School of American Ballet. “I’m so excited to be teaching Balanchine’s style in Australia!,” she says. “My hope is that the students’ experience with Balanchine will open their dance world to more depth of…
a new take on swan lake
CONTEMPORARY ballet company Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo will visit Melbourne this winter, with LAC, a modern take on Swan Lake. Choreographed by the company’s director, Jean-Christophe Maillot, LAC is an updated version of the classic tale. Set to the original Tchaikovsky score, Maillot’s ballet is a story of love triangles. The Prince’s childhood sweetheart, the White Swan, is kidnapped by Her Majesty the Night. Haunted by that lost love, the grown-up prince is unable to choose from the prospective brides presented to him. When Her Majesty the Night attempts to match him with her own daughter, the Black Swan, chaos and tragedy ensues. Maillot’s choreography combines neo-classical lines with a modern sensibility to give this fairy tale a sharp edge. Presented as part of The Australian Ballet’s 2019 season, LAC runs from June…
