Queensland Ballet: Behind the ‘rags to riches’ story of Coco Chanel

Neneka Yoshida as Coco Chanel, Patricio Revé as Boy Capel, Coco Chanel: the Life of a Fashion Icon

Queensland Ballet in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's Coco Chanel: the Life of a Fashion Icon

Georgie Swan and Edison Manuel as Chanel Logo and Kaho Kato as Shadow Chanel

Neneka Yoshida, Coco Chanel and Patricio Revé, Boy Capel, Coco Chanel: the Life of a Fashion Icon

Neneka Yoshida as Coco Chanel and Kaho Kato as Shadow Chanel

Luke DiMattina as Pierre Wertheimer in Coco Chanel: the Life of a Fashion Icon

By Ruth Ridgway, 06 October 2024

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“with Yoshida conveying a huge range of emotions and behaviours, as well as Chanel’s elegance”

Reviewed at QPAC: Playhouse, Brisbane on 4 October 2024

Coco Chanel: the Life of a Fashion Icon (Annabelle Lopez Ochoa)

Queensland Ballet

Nigel Gaynor, Conductor

Jérôme Kaplan, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Jon Buswell, Lighting Designer

Camerata – Queensland's Chamber Orchestra

Neneka Yoshida, Dancer

Kaho Kato, Dancer

Patricio Revé, Dancer

D'Arcy Brazier, Dancer

Joshua Ostermann, Dancer

Vito Bernasconi, Dancer

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Ruth Ridgway

Ruth, from Brisbane, Australia, has been writing about dance since 2000. Music and dance are her most abiding passions. She learned classical ballet in her youth, and later attended adult classes for many years. She also became a committed Latin and Argentinian tango dancer. Currently, she sings alto in a chamber choir. After a long career in publishing and communications as a writer and editor, Ruth studied archaeology and now works in a completely different field as a technical officer in the Queensland Museum.