A Tale of Woe
There is probably no more beloved ballet, by audiences and dancers alike, than “Romeo and Juliet.”
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From out of retirement came twelve dancers of the Australian Ballet. Julie de Costa, Simon Dow, Lucinda Dunn, Madeleine Eastoe, Steven Heathcote, Paul Knobloch, Kirsty Martin, David McAllister, Sarah Peace, Leanne Stojmenov, Jessica Thompson, and Fiona Tonkin.[1] A dozen dancers to usher, in a sense, Adam Bull into his retirement at the close of the Melbourne season of “Identity,” in Alice Topp’s “Paragon.”
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There is probably no more beloved ballet, by audiences and dancers alike, than “Romeo and Juliet.”
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Continue ReadingBooks are banned, DEI scuttled, and Africanist studies scaled back. Yet, the irrepressible spirit of African American artists is not extinguished.
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