Review: Manon (The Australian Ballet)
The concept of the guilty pleasure could have been created just for this sprawling, opulent ballet.
Deborah Jones is a writer specialising in dance. A former long-serving Arts Editor of The Australian, she is currently the newspaper’s national dance critic and also reviews musical theatre and theatre. She is the Sydney correspondent for London-based Opera magazine and Vancouver-based Dance International.
The concept of the guilty pleasure could have been created just for this sprawling, opulent ballet.
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