by Oksana Khadarina | Feb 23, 2021 | News, Onstage
After a yearlong hiatus, The Australian Ballet is ready to return to the stage. The company’s season opener, titled Summertime at the Ballet, packs a great deal of firsts: It marks the ballet’s first performance before a live audience since the start of...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 2, 2020 | Instagram, Pointe Shoe Tips, Profiles
When at home in Melbourne, Australian Ballet principal Robyn Hendricks carries a huge bag around the theater. “It has my whole wardrobe in it, and photos and parts of costumes,” she says. But while on tour, the South African–born dancer has perfected...
by Amanda Sherwin For Dance Spirit | Oct 29, 2019 | News, Viral Videos
Further showing that whatever mere humans can do, ballerinas can do more gracefully, the Australian Ballet created the most beautiful obstacle course we’ve ever seen, and then put their dancers to the test. Naturally, when it came to execution, the company...
by Marissa DeSantis | Jun 3, 2019 | Career, Profiles
Though Australian Ballet coryphée Alice Topp has been dancing since she was four, when it comes to choreographing, she’s just getting started. Topp created her first piece, Trace, on a whim in 2010 as part of The Australian Ballet’s annual...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Nov 28, 2018 | Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Trending, Viral Videos
As all bunheads know, there’s so much more to dancing on pointe than sewing and bourées. In this new video, The Australian Ballet lays it all out for us, from A-Z. Or rather from “Arch” to “Zzzzzz’s.” Using a super fast-paced style,...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 1, 2018 | News
For the last few years, World Ballet Day has transfixed millions of ballet lovers with its hours and hours of live-streamed classes, rehearsals and behind-the-scenes extras from major companies around the globe. (We here at Pointe certainly don’t get any work...
by Marina Harss | Nov 1, 2017 | Career, Profiles
On November 7, David Hallberg’s highly anticipated memoir, A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back, will be available in bookstores. (It’s currently available for pre-order from Simon & Schuster and various other retailers.) Published by...
by Amy Brandt | Aug 7, 2017 | Company Life
If everyone in your ballet class has called out sick on October 5, there’s a perfectly good explanation: that’s when World Ballet Day LIVE is scheduled to return. In other words, 24 hours of binge-worthy behind-the-scenes footage featuring five of the...
