By Rhys Ryan Like most cities around the world right now, Melbourne’s theatres lie eerily dormant. Empty stages and foyers are just one troubling symptom of the unprecedented shutdown of an entire arts ecology. Strict social distancing measures were suddenly introduced in mid-March to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Australia, prematurely ending several performance
It was a long wait but worth it. Almost 11 years after Crystal Pite astonished the National Ballet of Canada’s hometown Toronto audience with her first large-ensemble work, Emergence, the now internationally renowned choreographer returned to the Four Seasons Centre with a new ballet for the company, which premiered February 29. It proved an even
By Silvia Poletti Wayne McGregor’s full-evening Woolf Works, created for the Royal Ballet in 2015, arrived last April to La Scala’s stage thanks to Alessandra Ferri, whom McGregor cast as the lead in the original production. On that occasion, Ferri returned to the stage after a leave of more than seven years and, at 52,