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Infinity: First look

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Infinity: First look

Take a look at the dancers in the studio and the choreographers talking about their work

Lucinda Dunn

We celebrate Lucinda Dunn's 20-year career with The Australian Ballet

Out There

Out There - The Australian Ballet in schools takes dance to primary schools across Australia

Romeo & Juliet

See highlights from Graeme Murphy's production of Romeo & Juliet

 

En pointe!

Three of our dancers take us through their personal pointe-shoe prep routines.

The Merry Widow

Watch highlights from this decadent tale of love, money and trouble

50th anniversary season

Come celebrate our anniversary with ballets of the past, present and future

Romeo & Juliet: the costumes

Watch as we follow the creation of the Romeo & Juliet costumes

 

Romeo & Juliet: the dancers

Graeme shares his thoughts on casting and how to make each dancer shine

Health and Lifestyle

Ballet is not just a career – it’s a lifestyle choice. So how do our dancers stay healthy?

Romeo & Juliet: the choreography

Take a peek into the creative process as the dancers try out the new choreography

The Dancers Company 2011

A preview of The Dancers Company tour of regional Australia

 

Painting on a character

Three dancers show us how they transform into their characters at the make-up mirror

British Liaisons

A virtuoso challenge, a chessboard battle,
a lyrical tour de force

2011 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award

Get up close and personal with the 2011 TBDA nominees

The new kids

Meet our 2011 corps de ballet recruits and follow them as they prepare for their debut performance

 

Madame Butterfly

Watch highlights from Stanton Welch's passionate Madame Butterfly

New wings for Madame Butterfly

The petal-delicate costumes of Madame Butterfly get some TLC from the wardrobe department

We Love Japan

The Australian Ballet’s dancers get a taste for all things Tokyo

Big in Japan

The Australian Ballet's dancers make it big in Japan

 

I'm Home

Two of our Japan-born ballerinas talk about how special it is to dance in their home country

Stepping Out in 2011

A sneak peek of The Australian Ballet's 2011 season

The Nutcracker

View highlights from Peter Wright's magical production of The Nutcracker

Edge of night

View highlights from this innovative and engaging program

 

Props, sets, magic

Go behind the scenes of The Nutcracker in our newest mini doco

Halcyon

Take a behind-the-scenes peek at the making of Halcyon, the new ballet from Tim Harbour

2010 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award

Meet the 2010 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award nominees in this year's first mini documentary

The Primrose Potter Australian Ballet Centre

The Australian Ballet has named its Melbourne headquarters 'The Primrose Potter Australian Ballet Centre' to honour an extraordinary contribution

 

Bodytorque.a la mode

Fashion designers Crystal Dunn and Georgia Lazzaro prepare costumes for first-time Bodytorque choreographer Alice Topp's Trace

The Silver Rose highlights

Highlights from Graeme Murphy's The Silver Rose, which makes its Australian debut in 2010

Costumes, costumes, costumes...

Discover the painstaking craftsmanship that goes into creating costumes

Ballet Blokes

Robert Curran, Luke Ingham and Rudy Hawkes shoot some pool and talk about dance as a career

 

Ballet Goes Bush

Behind the scenes on The Dancers Company tour of regional Australia

Manon at the store

A rare glimpse inside the Ballet's wardrobe storage facility, where Manon costumes are being packed

Scuola di ballo

Inside one of the great 'classroom ballets', where the drama of the studio - tears, tutus, jealousies and egos - is ripe for comic interpretation

Dyad 1929

A glimpse inside the studios of The Australian Ballet where Random Dance's Wayne McGregor is creating a brand-new work on the company

 

Scuola di ballo vs Dyad 1929

We indulge in a spot of 'compare and constrast' between Alexei Ratmansky's Scuola di ballo and Wayne McGregor's Dyad 1929 for our final Concord video

The Slipper

Narrated by Principal Artist Danielle Rowe, this video explores the history of the pointe shoe

Interplay rehearsals

A look inside the rehearsal studio where the ballet Semele is being created

Opening night

A behind-the-scenes snapshot of the opening night buzz

 

Tips from the top

Principal Artists discuss what it takes to reach the top rank

A day in the life...

Find out what Soloist Gina Brescianini does throughout her day

Bodytorque

Ever wondered how a ballet goes from a late-night idea to a fully realised production?

Bodytorque part 2

Up–and–coming Australian choreographers create explosive works for Bodytorque

 

The tutu

The short, structured powder puff tutu first appeared in 1950, in George Balanchine's Symphony in C

The right note - music and dance

The Australian Ballet's music department prepares Tchaikovsky iconic Nutcracker score for performance

Safety dance

Dancers and a physiotherapist chat about the physical demands on dancers' bodies

Boys' Day

See how male dancers at The Australian Ballet are inspiring young men to follow their dancing dreams at Boys' Day

 

Take home pointe shoes signed by your favourite ballerina