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Despite the rather fearsome photo accompanying the media release, Ratzke presented an elegant figure onstage.
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Ballet audiences are normally a comparatively reserved crew, but there is a boisterous energy in the auditorium during Verve. The audience has good reason to be excitable: this showcase of contemporary ballets by The Australian Ballet’s homegrown choreographers is a blast of energy and talent.
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It’s Bill and Rachel’s wedding day. The stag party was the night before and Bill wakes up with a horrible headache and a naked woman asleep next to him who he doesn’t know. Oops!
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It’s the story we all know and love, the original “makeover plot” where the downtrodden lower class girl is transformed into a princess seemingly overnight.
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Is it greed or is it kindness that determines our salvation? Who gets to own trauma and who should profit from it?
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Musically this performance was an unmitigated delight. But in my opinion the same could not be said of the staging. Lindy Hume is one of Australia’s most well-known, versatile, and lively directors, but even she couldn’t coax drama out of this work.
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Michaela has researched hard, talked with and written to relatives and friends of these characters so close to her until she has unearthed good tales and bad, triumphs and disasters, admirable lives and tragic deaths.
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Seeing a performer more than capable of immense vocal power use it skilfully, seldomly and contextually was a masterclass to the countless singers in the audience