Christine Walsh’s THE NUTCRACKER
“Breathtaking!”
“Great evening of theatre, dance and music!” - Herald-Sun
“The performance was absolutely wonderful! I enjoyed every single moment of it!” - Dame Margaret Scott AC, DBE Founder Director - The Australian Ballet School
My 5-year-old niece loved it, my 82 year-old mother loved it and I loved it – so you scored a hat trick!” - Sandy Graham
Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre 15th July 2017
Luca Acri - Soloist, The Royal Ballet; Matthew Ball - First Soloist, The Royal Ballet; Oksana Bondareva - Second Soloist, Mariinsky Theatre; Benjamin Ella - Soloist, The Royal Ballet; Anton Korsakov - First Soloist, Mariinsky Theatre; Tomas Mock - First Artist, The Royal Ballet; Vadim Muntagirov - Principal Artist, The Royal Ballet; Luciana Paris - Soloist, American Ballet Theatre; Denise Parungao - Junior Principal Artist, Ballet Philippines; Joseph Phillips - Principal Artist, State Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theater; Calvin Richardson - First Artist, The Royal Ballet; Akane Takada - Principal Artist, The Royal Ballet; Joy Womack - Principal Artist, Kremlin Ballet and dancers of The Australian Conservatoire of Ballet.
“We were treated to some of the best couple duets, divertissements, solos, and company corps de ballet works in the canon of classical ballet, to rapturous applause!”
“…a night to remember!”… The Plus One – July 2017
Coppélia
Choreographed by Maina Gielgud for the Australian Conservatoire of Ballet, Arts Centre Melbourne, December 2015
There was quite a lot of new choreography and loads of rearranging but basically Gielgud’s production was a staging rather than a new work. But what a beauty. It was hard to believe this was a student production, so high were its standards. The young dancers were not just technically assured, they gave terrifically engaged and engaging performances, working seamlessly with the delightful guest artists from Tokyo Ballet, Maria Kawatani and Arata Miyagawa. Christine Walsh designed the many costumes, all of them splendid.
Reviewed by Deborah Jones
The Sleeping Beauty
Hamer Hall - The Arts Centre - 2014
“Impressive... the students were simply evidence of the school's position as training ground for excellent ballet.”
- The Sunday Age December 2008
Swan Lake
State Theatre - The Arts Centre - 2013
Repertoire
The Australian Conservatoire of Ballet has a well established reputation and is invited regularly to perform its large repertoire of dance works and ballets.
ACB dance students have participated in the Port Fairy and Castlemaine Arts Festival, the Sans Souci Arts Festival in Germany, taken part in the inaugural performances of the Queensland Youth Ballet, participated in the "Pacific Brands" corporate events and have assisted in restaging ballet for Royal Ballet of Flanders.
One act ballets performed by the school are Christine Walsh's Paquita, A Midsummer Night's Dream, La Leçon, La Vivandiere, Kingdom of the Shades from La Bayadere, Le Corsaire Act 2, Octet for 9, Marc Bogaert's Ritualism and Framing and William Forsythe's Frankfurt Dances.
In December 2002 & 2004, ACB staged a new spectacular production of the full-length Swan Lake with 100 musicians of the Melbourne Youth Orchestra at the Melbourne Town Hall and the Hamer Hall of the Arts Centre. This was followed in 2005 by an even more ambitious collaboration with the Melbourne Youth Orchestra in a production of Romeo & Juliet at the Melbourne Town Hall.
Since 2006, the ACB has performed its full-length productions at the State Theatre and Hamer Hall of the Arts Centre Melbourne featuring international guest artists and with its own orchestra on an annual basis to capacity audiences.
THE AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATOIRE OF BALLET’S DISTINGUISHED PRINCIPAL GUEST ARTISTS
Luca Acri - Royal Ballet
Samuel Akins - Los Angeles Ballet
Chinara Alizade - Bolshoi Ballet
Martin Arroyos - Paris Opera Ballet School
Matthew Ball - Royal Ballet
Katherine Barkman - Washington Ballet
Kimbrian Bergh - PACT Ballet
Lisa Bolte - Australian Ballet
Oksana Bondareva - Mariinsky Theatre
Alexey Borzov - Russian Chamber Ballet Theatre
Andrew Bowman - Australian Ballet
Michael Braun - Royal New Zealand Ballet
Stanislav Bukharaev - Stanislavsky Ballet Theatre
Nigel Burley - Australian Ballet
Daniel Convery - Freelance Guest Artist
Nathan Coppen - Australian Ballet
David Cranson - West Australian Ballet
Simon Crowther - PACT Ballet
Gabrielle Davidson - Australian Ballet
Liudmilla Doksomova - Russian Chamber Ballet Theatre
Paul De Masson - Australian Ballet
Simon Dow - Australian Ballet
Jia Yin Du - Australian Ballet
Benjamin Ella - Royal Ballet
Chinara Elizade - Bolshoi Ballet
Steven Eitienne - Dutch National Ballet
Elena Evseeva - Mariinsky Theatre
Martyn Fleming - Bejart Ballet
Mathilde Froustey - Paris Opera Ballet
Mara Galeazzi - Royal Ballet
Anna Germizeeva - Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre
Simone Goldsmith - Australian Ballet
Marina Guizien - Paris Opera Ballet School
Nicole Graniero - American Ballet Theatre
Margarita Grechanaia - Bayerisches Staatsballett
Belinda Hernandez - Australian Ballet
Amber Hobson - Freelance Guest Artist
Katie Hurst-Saxton - Royal New Zealand Ballet
Filip Janda - Freelance Guest Artist
Rina Kambe - K Ballet
Maria Kawatani - Tokyo Ballet
Beatrice Knop - Staatsballett Berlin
Anton Korsakov - Mariinskly Theatre
Roberta Marquez - Royal Ballet
Kirsty Martin - Australian Ballet
Campbell McKenzie - Australian Ballet
Steven McRae - Royal Ballet
Arata Miyagawa - Tokyo Ballet
Tomáš Mock - Royal Ballet
Scott Mullen - Freelance Guest Artist
Vadim Muntagirov - Royal Ballet
Mikhail Nedelsky - Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre
Ana Ol - Dutch National Ballet
Luciana Paris - American Ballet Theatre
Denise Parungao - Ballet Philippines
Joseph Phillips - American Ballet Theatre
Sergie Polunin - Royal Ballet
Calvin Richardson - Royal Ballet
Irina Sapozhnikova - Primorsky State Ballet
Dmitry Semionov - Staatsballett Berlin
Kenta Shimizu - Los Angeles Ballet
Akane Takada - Royal Ballet
Semyon Velicho - Dutch National Ballet
Venus Villa - English National Ballet
Dmitry Vyskubenko - Bayerisches Staatsballett
Natalia Vyskubenko - Bolshoi Ballet
Yuri Vyskubenko - Bolshoi Ballet
Sacha Wakelin - West Australian Ballet
Joy Womack - Kremlin Ballet
Kirill Zaretskiy - Moscow Ballet Company
Philippa Ziegenhardt - Hamburg Ballet
Maxim Zyuzin - Mariinsky Theatre
ACB regularly performs fully staged productions of Christine Walsh's Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hansel & Gretel and Maina Gielgud's Coppelia and Harry Haythorne's La Sylphide. ACB has its own 65 piece orchestra performing for all its productions.
