The Australian Ballet's Swan Lake: the archetypal ballet

Benedicte Bemet as Odette and Joseph Caley as Siegfried with The Australian Ballet in Swan Lake

Benedicte Bemet as Odette and Joseph Caley as Siegfried in Act 2 Swan Lake

Benedicte Bemet as Odile and Joseph Caley as Siegfried in Act 3 Swan Lake

The Australian Ballet in Swan Lake

By Ruth Ridgway, 26 October 2023

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“Bemet melted the heart as Odette”

Reviewed at QPAC: Lyric Theatre, Brisbane on 24 October 2023

Swan Lake (Anne Woolliams, Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov)

The Australian Ballet

David Hallberg, Director

Daniel Ostling, Set Designer

Mara Blumenfeld, Costume Designer

T.J. Gerckens, Lighting Designer

Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Benedicte Bemet, Dancer

Joseph Caley, Dancer

Valerie Tereshchenko, Dancer

Rina Nemoto, Dancer

Jarryd Madden, Dancer

Paul Boyd, Dancer

Dana Stephensen, Dancer

Marcus Morelli, 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.