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Li Cunxin AO Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Dance 13 Feb, 2025

Li Cunxin AO Queensland Ballet Former Artistic Director Li Cunxin AO has been presented with the Prix de Lausanne 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award in Switzerland. The award recognises his exceptional career from overcoming adversity early in life, to his rise as a celebrated dancer… Read Article

Queensland Ballet Announces Seventh Artistic Director

Dance 2 Feb, 2025

Queensland Ballet Ivan Gil-Ortega  Queensland Ballet has announced that celebrated international ballet professional Ivan Gil-Ortega will step into the role of Artistic Director in February this year. “We are thrilled to welcome Ivan to the Queensland Ballet family following a st… Read Article

Neneka Yoshida Celebrates 10 Years with Queensland Ballet as She Prepares to Debut as Coco Chanel

Latest News 20 Sep, 2024

Coco Chanel: the Life of a Fashion Icon Playhouse, QPAC, October 4 – 19 Queensland Ballet Principal Artist Neneka Yoshida is celebrating a decade with Queensland Ballet as she prepares to make her debut as Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel in Annabelle’s Lopez Ochoa’s masterful Coco Cha… Read Article

Queensland Ballet Achieves World-First WELL Certification™ for the Thomas Dixon Centre

Dance 22 Jun, 2024

Thomas Dixon Centre Queensland Ballet Queensland Ballet is the first performing arts organisation in the world to become WELL Certified™ at the Platinum level, for its home the Thomas Dixon Centre.   Ten years in the making, the development involved a complex restoration of the herita… Read Article

QB Moves One Step Closer to Realising Three Sites: One Vision

Dance 18 May, 2024

Three Sites: One Vision Queensland Ballet Queensland Ballet’s plans for a dedicated production centre to house its set and costume assets have now moved to Brisbane, after the company purchased land on Montague Road, 200 meters from the Thomas Dixon Centre. Queensland Ballet Executi… Read Article

Queensland Ballet Announces New Artistic Director

Dance 21 Dec, 2023

Leanne Benjamin AM OBE Queensland Ballet Queensland Ballet has announced Leanne Benjamin AM OBE as its new Artistic Director.  Named Australian of the Year in the UK 2023, this is a homecoming for Ms Benjamin, a Queenslander who has been a vibrant voice in ballet, vocational developmen… Read Article

Queensland Ballet Unveils its Vibrant Company for 2024

Dance 1 Dec, 2023

Queensland Ballet 2024 Season Every Step A Vibrant Story Vibrant, textured characters are the focus of this last season curated by Li Cunxin AO as he steps aside at the end of the year as Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director (2013 – 2023). Today he unveiled the company for 2024, one of his… Read Article

The Nutcracker Opens December 1, 2023 at the Playhouse Theatre, QPAC

Dance 1 Dec, 2023

The Nutcracker December 1 – 20, 2023 Playhouse, QPAC Queensland Ballet invites families of all ages to celebrate one of the most popular and magical holiday traditions this season as The Nutcracker returns for its eleventh year. Captivate audiences with a dazzling winter won… Read Article

Outgoing Artistic Director Calls for Arts Funding Parity for Queenslanders

Latest News 11 Nov, 2023

  Li Cunxin Retiring Due to Health Issue Queensland Ballet Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director Li Cunxin AO has used a company tour to Canberra to highlight the lack of Federal Government Funding for Queensland arts companies, labelling the current system, outdated. Speakin… Read Article

Strictly Gershwin Inspires On Stage Dancer Promotions

Dance 6 Oct, 2023

Strictly Gershwin Queensland Ballet It was a day of promotions for Queensland Ballet, with two dancers recognised in two separate productions of Derek Dean’s Strictly Gershwin. Queensland Ballet’s Alexander Idaszak was promoted to Principal Artist following the Matinee performa… Read Article