A simply delightful evening with princess Aurora!
On Saturday (12th December 2015) yours truly experienced a delightful evening at the Australia Ballet’s production of Sleeping Beauty – the finale to the 2015 season - “ A year of Beauty ”. From the very outset, I should make it clear that although I have enjoyed ballet from my childhood ranging from the few lessons I had and the old black and white movies at the British council, to periodically attending performances, I could only profess to be a lover of the art form and in no way an expert on the subject. If a picture painted a thousand words then a performance paints a million! This was a new production by David McAllister. Everything apart from the music and Choreography was started from a blank canvass. As someone who made a modest donation to the production, the Australian Ballet pleasantly provided continuous updates over the 2 or so years of it’s production. The creation of the costumes from some of the initial draft drawings were mesmerising and indicat...