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Artistic director of Hong Kong Ballet on ‘over the top’ characters in his The Wizard of Oz

The choreographer, whose ballet version of The Wizard of Oz will be performed in Hong Kong for the first time, starting from August 30, says he read and reread the …

Why Hong Kong Ballet needed a new Swan Lake: Septime Webre on Yuri Possokhov’s production of classic work

by Haddis Thomas

Ironically, the first staging, in Moscow in 1877, was a failure, and it was not until Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov created a new version in St Petersburg in 1895 …

Breakneck Hong Kong ballet brings screams and cheers from the audience in a show of emotion rarely seen in the city

by Haddis Thomas

Created in 1934 and set to Tchaikovsky’s ravishing Serenade for Strings in C, it is a work of supreme lyricism and deceptive simplicity whose luminous beauty and subtle sense of …