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West Australian Ballet announce Season 2023

Dance 15 Oct, 2022

Celebrating Aurelien Scannella’s 10th Year as Artistic Director West Australian Ballet Australia’s oldest professional ballet company, West Australian Ballet, is looking ahead to a year of creativity as the Company prepares to premiere a selection of new classical and cont… Read Article

REVIEW | Platinum: WA Ballet at the Quarry

Musical TheatreReviews 12 Mar, 2022

The Coming Together of Life, Love, Lust, and Loss 11 Feb – 5 Mar at Quarry Amphitheatre Reviewed by Courtney Allen The Western Australian coast has an abundance of natural jewels in its crown in the summer months, however, two in particular spring to mind. Sunsets at City Beach, and the nea… Read Article

WA Ballet’s 70th Anniversary

Dance 22 Oct, 2021

West Australian Ballet’s Season 2022 70th Anniversary Celebrations In 2022, Australia’s oldest professional ballet company, West Australian Ballet, will celebrate its 70th anniversary with an ambitious program featuring a number of ground-breaking new works in a definin… Read Article

WA Ballet Revives Giselle

Dance 18 Mar, 2021

Feel the Devastation of Heartbreak in Giselle by West Australian Ballet His Majesty’s Theatre, May 13 – 22 The second production of the 2021 season for West Australian Ballet is the classic ballet Giselle, choreographed by Aurélien Scannella and Sandy Delasalle after Je… Read Article

Ballet at the Quarry

Dance 22 Jan, 2021

WA Ballet Returns to Perth Festival in 2021 with World Class Triple Bill As One: Ballet at the Quarry THREE NEW SHOWS ADDED – Feb 22, Mar 2, Mar 3 Perth’s own world-class ballet company, West Australian Ballet, returns in 2021 with its highly anticipated summer triple-bill, As One:… Read Article

WA Ballet Launches 2021 Season

Dance 23 Oct, 2020

West Australian Ballet Announces Ambitious Program for 2021 Six Classics and Contemporaries This week via an online streamed event Australia’s oldest ballet company, the West Australian Ballet, launched its planned 2021 season. Unlike most arts and dance companies around t… Read Article

WA Ballet’s Virtual Genesis

Dance 15 May, 2020

West Australian Ballet Takes Annual Showcase Online Twelve Works Now Available to Watch Free Online As COVID-19 swept the world, cancelling an unprecedented amount of shows and live performances, in Perth the West Australian Ballet cancelled three months of performances, renderin… Read Article

WA Ballet Principal Dancer to Retire

Dance 12 May, 2016

Jayne Smeulders will depart the stage after 20 years After over twenty years on the stage, Jayne Smeulders is set to retire with the closing of West Australian Ballet’s Beauty & the Beast this month. Born in Dampier, Western Australia, Jayne began her ballet training at Jody M… Read Article