Our December/January cover features the Australian Ballet’s Benedicte Bemet – it’s a super sassy shot for a super sassy issue, packed with fantastic articles for your reading pleasure!
THE ETERNAL APPEAL OF THE POINTE SHOE
What is the place of pointe work today?
As our cover model Benedicte Bemet demonstrates, pointe work has come a long way from the sylph. How are contemporary choreographers using this beautiful though somewhat controversial device? Emma Sandall asks today’s choreographers what they think about ballet’s most recognisable tool.
TEACHERS' SPOTLIGHT
Behind every star dancer is a star teacher... but teaching is as much
about the students who don't go on to a stage career as it is about star
students. It's about developing a love of the artform in young people,
developing future audiences for, and advocates of, dance. It's about teaching life-skills such as discipline and tenacity. It's about passing on the joy of movement. Our new Teachers’ Spotlight celebrates the incredible work of dance teachers, by profiling teachers from dance studios and institutions around Australia.
AN AUSTRALIAN IN NEW YORK
Austalian dancer Dimitri Kleioris tells Susan Reiter about the path that led him from the McDonald College in Sydney to the lead role on Broadway in the hit musical, An American in Paris.
IS IT ART?
There has been much debate about the use of acrobatic content in competitive dance. But acrobatic elements have appeared in the works of various renowned choreographers, from George Balanchine to Garry Stewart. So what is the status of acrobatics? Art or not? Nina Levy offers her thoughts.
TWO FAIR LADIES
A new production of My Fair Lady, directed by none other than Julie Andrews, will play Brisbane and Melbourne next year, after a massive season in Sydney. Susan Bendall delves into the history of this popular musical, and its original choreographer, Hanya Holm.
PLUS we have interviews with independent choreographers Ghenoa Gela and Antony Hamilton, and musical theatre’s Ellen Simpson, and all our regular features!
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