New life for an old bird By Neil Jillett
September 17 2002
The Age
The Australian Ballet's new and unconventional production of the classic Swan Lake looks the way it does partly because Kristian Fredrikson wanted to write The Great New Zealand Novel.
More than 40 years after he was struck by that ambition, the novel remains unwritten, and the hobby he took up to support him while he made his name as a Kiwi Patrick White has expanded into a career as one of Australia's busiest and most applauded stage designers.
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<B>An army of swans</B>
By Jo Roberts
September 17 2002
The Age
The first major commission by new artistic director David McAllister, it is a mammoth production, even bigger than the Tivoli collaborative extravaganza that Murphy created last year with his own SDC dancers and the Australian Ballet. This production of Swan Lake involves every one of the AB's 71 dancers, Murphy calling it "a military exercise".
Dancing the principal roles in the first of three casts (which will alternate each night) are Steven Heathcote, Simone Goldsmith and Margaret Illman. "This is a four-act ballet, so it's a killer," Murphy says of the 155-minute work.
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