Their acclaimed dancers will be joined by international guest stars paying tribute to the contributions of Queensland Ballet’s five Artistic Directors: Charles Lisner OBE, Harry Haythorne, Harold Collins MBE, François Klaus and Li Cunxin AO.

Enjoy excerpts from iconic works, including Charles Lisner’s Chopin pas de deux (1965), Jacqui Carroll’s Carmina Burana (1982), Harold Collins’ The Lady of the Camellias (1996) and Francois Klaus’s The Little Mermaid (2003) and Cloudland (2004). Fittingly, the season will culminate in Harald Lander’s thrilling and masterful homage to classical ballet, Études (1948) as we showcase Queensland Ballet today, under current Artistic Director, Li Cunxin AO.

Queensland Ballet 60th Anniversary Gala
20 – 28 March 2020
QPAC, Brisbane
www.queenslandballet.com.au

An evening of heartfelt and virtuosic works performed by Collusion, alongside Queensland Ballet’s exciting young pre-professional dancers. Experience the heightened synchronicity of dance and live music in these lyrical, muscular and intimate chamber ballets.
 

 
Featuring three group dance works – Refraction, Transition Sequence, Urban Myths; and two intimate duets – Mourning Song and Transference. Muscle Memory creates a varied evening of the best Australian chamber ballets set to inspiring live music.

Pulsing with humanity, the ballets featured in this new work are inspired by the choices everyone makes every day. Refraction takes a look at a spectrum of choices and individuals, with a thrilling new score by Collusion’s Philip Eames. Catherine Likhuta’s Sonata for Violin and Piano breathes new life into the off-beat delicacy of Transference, while Urban Myths looks at the image of the ‘perfect marriage’ and what might lie beneath the sepia photographs. Set to Carl Vine’s String Quartet No.3, Transition Sequence is an intensely personal work of vivid and dynamic physicality.

Muscle Memory
Wednesday 17 – Saturday 20 August, 7.30pm
Performance Space, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
www.judithwrightcentre.com