CULTURE: Ballet
20 Australian Masterpieces Since 2000
The Monthly
FASHION Romance Was Born ‘The Oracle’, 2011 ‘The Oracle’, the fifth major show by two Sydney-based iconoclasts, initially had...
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WORLD
Robert Helpmann & Anna Pavlova
Little Bobbie Helpman was a delicate infant. On doctor’s orders, anything liable to make him cry was forbidden. His adoring mother, a woman...
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CULTURE
Ballet Masterpiece: Graeme Murphy - 'Swan Lake', 2002
Jill Sykes
Like Shakespeare’s plays, great ballets get their makeovers by the score all over the world – except that Shakespeare’s words are (mostly)...
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CULTURE
Wanted for Loitering: Janette Turner Hospital on Central Park, New York
Janette Turner ...
From the NASA space shuttle, Central Park is visible to the naked eye as a bright emerald bar on the fat knuckle of Manhattan – index...
More ...Maggie’s War: A Chapter in the Life of a Ballet Legend, Margaret Scott
Peter Robb
When her sister was dying in Africa, Maggie flung some things into a bag and flew from Melbourne to the farm in Swaziland she’d hardly seen...
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CULTURE
Isabel Letham & Duke Kahanamoku
On Thursday, 24 December 1914, an athletic young Hawaiian strode across the beach at Freshwater, a stretch of sand between Manly and Curl...
More ...Day of the Skinny Insect. Ballads, blues, babes and a man still expressing himself: 'B-sides and Rarities' by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Robert Forster
Nick Cave is the greatest rock artist Australia has produced. No contest. Somewhere in history there may have been a contender who never...
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