The Australian Ballet launches Live on Ballet TV
The new livestreaming initiative begins this month with Summertime at the Ballet, and will add bonus behind-the-scenes footage including post-performance interviews with dancers.
Jo Litson is the Editor of Limelight Magazine. She took up the position in late 2018 having joined the magazine as Deputy Editor in 2016. During a 35-year career as an arts journalist she has been a contributor to numerous publications including Limelight, The Australian, The Bulletin, and the Qantas magazine. She was the arts writer and theatre reviewer for The Sunday Telegraph for 12 years until 2018, and has written the labels for the Archibald Prize for the Art Gallery of New South Wales for over 20 years.
The new livestreaming initiative begins this month with Summertime at the Ballet, and will add bonus behind-the-scenes footage including post-performance interviews with dancers.
The Darlo's 2021 program includes A Chorus Line, the return of the musical Once, and jasmine lee-jones's coruscating 2019 play seven methods of killing kylie jenner.
The two awards will be presented at the Sydney Opera House on 6 April on the opening night of The Australian Ballet's New York Dialects.
The opera company has introduced rapid antigen testing in order to reduce the risk of transmission of the virus between performers and staff.
Opening events due to take place this Friday are being rescheduled because of the five-day COVID-19 lockdown in WA.
The much-loved Brisbane musician, music therapist, teacher and composer has died at the age of 67.
Lindy Hume, Chrissie Parrott, Lorrae Desmond and David Helfgott are among the Australians recognised, while some refuse or return their awards.
The program under new Creative Director Lindy Hume includes local Yuin artists, cellist Timo-Veikko Valve, the SSO 2020 Fellows, Sydney Dance Company, and Compassion by Nigel Westlake and Lior.
The elegant Sydney hotel is offering a new series of intimate recitals by leading musicians and performers, combined with high tea or a degustation dinner.
This new stage adaptation of the much-loved mockumentary film is joyously uplifting, and touching too at times.
Run by Moogahlin Performing Arts, this year's festival will develop six new works by First Nations storytellers, four of which will be performed live this weekend as part of Sydney Festival.
Australian director Elijah Moshinsky, who had a distinguished career in opera, has died in London at the age of 75 after contracting COVID-19.
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