Australian Ballet Sylvia
https://dancemagazine.com.au/2019/11/houston-ballet-and-the-australian-ballets-co-production-of-sylvia/ Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 8 November 2019. The production of Sylvia is one work where it really pays to read the synopsis beforehand and to make yourself familiar with the narrative and characters. Even so, sometimes you are still going, “Who’s that?” Balletomanes might be familiar with Sir Frederick Ashton’s 1952 version. This one, however, is a co-production by Houston Ballet and The Australian Ballet choreographed by Stanton Welch (who used to be with The Australian Ballet and is now artistic director of Houston Ballet). Welch has niftily entwined Sylvia’s story with that of two other formidable female characters, Artemis and Psyche. The work is colour-coded, with Sylvia in grey/silver or white, Artemis in blue and Psyche in pink. The Australian Ballet in ‘Sylvia’. Photo by Jeff Busby. This work is inhabited by nymphs, g...