By Kristen Lawson “I’m asked, ‘How do you go from flying to dancing?’ To me it seems natural; both need space and yield new concepts of it… And both can become pure action in which self-awareness vanishes, leaving unearthly joy.” Onstage with Martha Graham follows the story of its author, Stuart Hodes, and his decades-long
By Martha Ullman West My goal was to write a short biography of Janet Reed, to be titled Pioneer on Pointe, a project I planned to complete in a year. I ended up writing a 400-page book about her and Todd Bolender, Reed’s partner in many endeavours, and their considerable contributions to the establishment of
By Deborah Jones David McAllister’s final year as The Australian Ballet’s longest-serving artistic director did not run to plan. In March, the company was only days into its Melbourne season when COVID-19 closed theatres. Soon, the rest of McAllister’s swan-song program was scrapped — not the ideal way to celebrate 20 years at the helm