Arabesque

Fuchsias look like ballet dancers in the garden with their cute tutus, neat bloomers and tippy-toe stamens, writes Jennifer Wilkinson.

Ah, The Thrill Of So Many Jewels On Show

The Paris Opera Ballet's Sydney season will offer some rare treats, writes Valerie Lawson.

Little Rats Who Aspired To Highest Pointes Of Their Art

THEY are the Little Rats who became ballet's blue bloods.

Fitness That Fits In To Client's Own Lifestyle

CHRISTINE England attributes her love of fitness to a background in ballet.

Ballet's Leading Beau Takes On Man From La Mancha

ETHAN Stiefel says he's "ready to rock'n'roll", which isn't a turn of phrase you'd expect from an international ballet star. But then again, the motorcycle and sports-mad Stiefel is not your average dancer.

For Boys, Ballet Is Every Bit As Good As The Footy

Athleticism more than art is bringing boys back to ballet, reports John Bailey.

Hardly A Rum Situation

HE was extremely intoxicated, the big fellow told the judge last week, when he bashed a ballet dancer in an inner-Newcastle street one midnight last year, and one paragraph later in this paper's news report of that case you will have read that after the bashing he and his mates continued drinking at the Ducks Nuts Hotel.

Step On It

A motorcycle nut and the son of a prison warden, Ethan Stiefel isn't a typical ballet superstar, writes Sharon Verghis.

Jail For Bashing Dancer

THE teenager who instigated the bashing of visiting ballet dancer Adam Blanch will spend two months in jail after a judge said there needed to be a deterrent against vicious street assaults in the city's central business district.

Passion Spices Ballet

QUEENSLAND Ballet artistic director Francois Klaus promised Newcastle theatre-goers something special on the weekend.

My Space Alexis George, Costumier

Inside the costume department of the Australian Ballet Centre, Alexis George sits amid a clutter of fabrics, threads, buttons and ribbons, lovingly stitching a bodice that will help to create what she calls the "fairytale" of Don Quixote during its Melbourne season. As a young girl growing up in the small rural town of Marong, near Bendigo, she developed a love of fashion and theatre, which found the ideal voice when she began working in what is recognised as one of the world's finest wardrobe departments.