Ballet Dance: Dancer's favourite tutu

In The Australian Ballet’s 2011 calendar 13 of the company’s leading ladies are featured wearing their favorite tutu. Dancers chose powder-puff, Romantic and ultra-modern tutus from a wide range of works including The Sleeping Beauty, Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Swan Lake, Firebird and more. Soloist Juliet Burnett sheds light on the tutu – the ballerina’s tool of the trade – in the calendar’s in-depth foreword.

For the calendar The Australian Ballet teamed up with photographer Jo Duck to shoot three dancers wearing their top tutu. The Melbourne-based photographer has worked with fashion labels Limedrop, chip chop! and magazines YEN, Fallen and Vice among many others. Before Jo Duck’s ballet shoot, we bumped into the studio with a mountain of tutus, three ballerinas, a make-up artist from Napoleon Perdis and their endless lipstick supply.

Ballet dance: A new path for Jane Casson

After nearly a decade with The Australian Ballet Soloist Jane Casson is hanging up her pointe shoes to pursue other passions: motherhood and her own business. Jane has performed much of the classical and contemporary repertoire and has been lauded for her versatility and comedic portrayals. With a business already under her belt, Jane is looking forward to the new challenges ahead.

American Ballet Competition 2010

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World Ballet Competition 2010 - 11 yrs old, Christina Ricucci

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Vienna Ballet Festival

VIENNA Festival Ballet celebrates its 30th anniversary with a UK tour which brings dancers to Worthing's Pavilion Theatre on Friday, October 8, at 7.30pm. Peter Mallek, the company's founder and Austrian dancer is hoping that the strong reputation built over the years will stand it in good stead in the tough times ahead.

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