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The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre in Flora: roots, rupture and renewal

The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre in Frances Rings’ Flora
© Daniel Boud
The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre in Frances Rings’ Flora
© Daniel Boud
Daniel Mateo with The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre in Flora
© Daniel Boud
The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre in Frances Rings’ Flora
© Daniel Boud
The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre in Frances Rings’ Flora
© Daniel Boud
The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre in Frances Rings’ Flora
© Daniel Boud
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“a take-no-prisoners, tectonic plate of a dancer whose barrelling head rolls a tsunami down her body,”
Reviewed at Sydney Opera House: Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney on 7 April 2026
Flora (Frances Rings, Bangarra Dance Theatre, The Australian Ballet)
The Australian Ballet
Elizabeth Gadsby, Set Designer
Grace Lillian Lee, Costume Designer
Karen Norris, Lighting Designer
Opera Australia Orchestra
Bangarra Dance Theatre
The Australian Ballet in Melbourne: three prismatic worlds
****1
The Australian Ballet in Adelaide: a dazzling Beauty
****1
Genius and madness: The Australian Ballet revives Nijinsky
****1
The Australian Ballet sparkles in Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker
****1
Fewer words, more heart: Wheeldon underwhelms in TAB’s Oscar
***11
Études/Circle Electric: The Australian Ballet in contrasting works
***11
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