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Moments of great poignancy and imagination, splendid dancing, and some missed opportunities in Christopher Wheeldon’s Oscar for Australian Ballet which came to New York City Center last week.

The Australian Ballet’s touring group is presenting a pleasing program in Nutcracker Act 2 and Other Works, designed to appeal to a wide audience. 

This revival of Romeo and Juliet combines vivid staging and technical leads, but the lover's careful partnership lacks the volatility that makes young love convincing and tragedy believable. 

Flora unites the Australian Ballet with Bangarra Dance Theatre in a glorious collaboration that traces loss, renewal, resilience, cultural continuity and enduring vitality of the body. 

With Tchaikovsky’s music, glittering visual spectacle and wonderful dancers, The Australian Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty is a thrilling night at the ballet.

Neumeier's Nijinsky explores the professional and personal life of the legendary dancer with intense choreography and powerful performances.  

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.

Balanchine's triptych proves the perfect vehicle for The Australian Ballet to display its dazzling wares on its first post-pandemic international tour. 

This Don Quixote reveals the extraordinary depth of talent within Australian Ballet, challenging all ranks of the company and presenting a stellar production.

The Australian Ballet do full justice to Shakespeare's epic tale of star-crossed lovers. Featuring a restaging of John Cranko's famous ballet, the first in almost twenty years, both the ensemble and leads shine in bringing Verona to life. 

Australian Ballet's latest triple bill features fresh young talent and new names to watch in creations by Wayne McGregor, Alice Topp and Justin Peck.

A lovingly reproduced historical reconstruction, but is it enough to connect with modern Australian audiences?

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.

Yuri Possokhov's Anna Karenina aims to be a dark psychological drama, but its uneven character development and unengaging choreography fail to satisfy.

After two years of pandemic disruptions, the Australian Ballet celebrates its return to the stage with this gala of impressively-chosen showstopper pas de deux.

The Australian Ballet is impressive in this light, entertaining story ballet: a winner of an evening. 

Ako Kondo dances a gorgeous Giselle in this restaging of a much-loved production.

The company's annual contemporary trible bill marks the much-anticipated Opera House main-season debut of Alice Topp's Aurum, and reprises work by Stephen Baynes and Tim Harbour.

The Australian Ballet’s adaptation of the historic Ancient Roman story fuses violence, seduction, and the anguish of separation. It delivers a mesmerising display of masculinity, through widly explosive battle scenes.

The Australian Ballet shines in a gloriously romantic and sumptuous staging of The Merry Widow.  

In a selection of modern and balletic works spanning several decades, the Australian Ballet pays tribute to one of Australia's best-loved choreographers.

Alice is the Australian Ballet’s biggest production yet, calling for all-stops-out artistic wizardry to reconjure the wit and whimsy of Lewis Carroll’s beloved classic.

Giselle is a story of love and loss, words left unspoken and the pain of regret. The Australian Ballet's tragedy is a beautifully poignant representation of human emotion.

Who needs a pumpkin carriage ride to transport you to the ball when you could surf celestial webs instead? Certainly not Prokofiev's Cinderella, if Alexei Ratmansky’s 2013 Australian Ballet production is anything to go by.

A provocative reworking of a Russian classic, if not always compelling told.

New York City Center's 11th annual Fall for Dance Festival's program four reaches out to new audiences with a unique program. 

Australian Ballet takes Graeme Murphy's multifaceted <em>Swan Lake</em> to LA. A mad Odette, a baroness Von Rothbart as the prince's mistress and a pleasing blend of classical and contmeporary features.

Pia Savoie reviews the Australian Ballet in Imperial Suite at the Sydney Opera House, combining the two classics Ballet Imperial by Balanchine and Lifar's Suite en Blanc.

Pia Savoie reviews the Australian Ballet in Chroma at the Sydney Opera House, including works by Wayne McGregor, Jiři Kylián, and a new choreography by Stephen Baynes.

Pia Savoie reviews the Australian Ballet's Manon at the Sydney Opera House.