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Encyclopedia > Australian Ballet

Australian Ballet is a leading Ballet dance company in Australia. The company runs approximately 200 performances a year and is one of the busiest Ballet companies in the world. The company is very diverse in its range of performances; it continues to perform classic pieces as well as contemporary pieces. The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker Ballet is the name given to a specific dance form and technique. ... Dance (from Old French dance, further history unknown) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression (see also body language) or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. ...


It is funded by the Australian Federal Government and various States and Territories it also receives private funding form Telstra. This article describes the national government of Australia. ... Telstra Corporation (ASX: TLS) is an Australian telecommunications company, holding a superdominant position in landline telephone services, large share of mobile phone services, domestic consumer (including dial-up access and broadband cable modem, satellite and ADSL services under the BigPond and Hypermax brands) and business data services, and cable television. ...


It was founded in 1962.


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Australian Ballet Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (290 words)
The Australian Ballet works in close cooperation with The Australian Ballet School, of which many of the company’s dancers are graduates.
Giving approximately 185 performances a year, The Australian Ballet is one of the busiest ballet companies in the world.
The Franz Léhar ballet, "The Merry Widow" was created bySir Robert Helpmann,and choreographed by Ronald Hynd, especially for the Australian Ballet Company.
Ballet-Dance Magazine - Australian Ballet - David McAllister - Interview by Ana Abad-Carles (2204 words)
McAllister studied at the School of the Australian Ballet, before joining the company founded in 1962 by Dame Peggy van Praagh, who was “a wonderful teacher, a wonderful coach and […] a visionary woman when it came to choreography and developing new choreographers”, in 1983.
However, ballet has survived because we speak to an audience on an emotional level, and I think that is the way in which it can continue to be relevant.
And to have the Australian Ballet as it was certainly in the seventies, eighties and early nineties: an internationally recognised ballet company.
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