Australia Ballet Celebrates Paris Match

Featuring the French confection Suite en blanc alongside the iconic Divergence, Paris Match is a double bill celebrating everything chic about French music and dance.

Set to Edouard Lalo's evocative score, Suite en blanc is a quintessentially French ballet experience, while the immensely popular Divergence returns to Melbourne with a cool elegance and cheeky attitude.

Paris Match is the ideal opportunity for Melbourne audiences–- ballet lovers and novices alike – to experience a feast of classical ballet and watch the next generation of dancers shine with their technical prowess, athleticism and virtuosic dancing.

This programme presents The Australian Ballet with the perfect opportunity to showcase the stylistic strengths of its dancers at different stages in their careers. Dancers’ individualities shine, as do the individuality of these diverse works when the pleasingly elegant Suite en blanc teams with the ultramodern noir of Divergence.

The timeless popularity of Divergence was recently cemented when the pas des deux was performed on Network Ten’s top rating show So You Think You Can Dance. Robert Curran and Leanne Stojmenov received a standing ovation from the show’s judges and studio audience. In fact, the public response was so strong the performance was re-televised during the show’s Easter special. -- www.australianballet.com.au