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Brimming with festive season joy, the Australian Ballet gives an exuberant performance of a Peter Wright classic: The Nutcracker. 

The Australian Ballet’s first commissioned full-length work in 20 years, based on the life of Oscar Wilde, fails to fully take flight. 

The Australian Ballet presents a diverse double bill of contemporary and classical dance, including its first major work from choreographer in residence Stephanie Lake. Unfortunately, only the classical piece exhilarates.

Swedish choreographer, Johan Inger, reimagines Carmen for The Australian Ballet, and purports to flip the script on "toxic masculinity" and the 200 year old tale of power and passion.  

The Australian Ballet revives Christopher Wheeldon's wildly imaginative take on Alice in Wonderland, in a magical masterpiece of wit and colour. 

The Australian Ballet’s current production of Swan Lake is ballet at its best: beautiful classical dance and music, intense emotion, exquisite costumes, dramatic sets and lighting.

The Australian Ballet's return to London's Royal Opera House after a 35 year absence, proves successful at every level.

The Australian Ballet's impressively-danced Kunstkamer is a work of astonishing scale, originality, and warmth, choreographed by Paul Lighfoot, Sol León, Marco Goecke and Crystal Pite.

New York City Center’s annual Fall for Dance festival heads online in a pair of programs, one much stronger than the other. 

Osipova has completely shaken away any inhibitions of classical training to dance more freely than ever before.

Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg's combined star power transcend this mixed bag of contemporary and classical dance.

A memorable and important event in the history of British ballet, sensitively and sentimentally performed. 

As a whole, this American Ballet Theatre program was good but the presence of Hee Seo and David Hallberg in Jerome Robbins' Other Dances made it indelible.

Svetlana Zakharova's Odette–Odile rises Bolshoi ballet's otherwise disappointing Swan Lake, with a luminous performance by the Bolshoi Orchestra, as part of Lincoln Center Festival. 

The opening dance programme of this year’s Hong Kong Arts Festival was Giselle, performed by La Scala Ballet, who made a welcome return to Hong Kong after seven years. Reviewed by Kevin Ng at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.

The Kings of the Dance program offers audiences a unique experience: a chance to see the top men in ballet letting it all out on one stage. This year, Opus 3 maintained the program’s reputation at New York City Center.