Oz of attraction
June 11, 2012 by admin
Filed under Lingerie Events
‘Swan Lake” famously pivots around a king who can’t find a suitable partner. Many members of a Australian Ballet have no such problem.
“I’m always a final to know,” says David McAllister of a 8 offstage couples in his company, that earnings to New York tomorrow for a initial performances in some-more than a decade.
So family-friendly is a unit that McAllister, a 48-year-old artistic executive (whose possess partner is Queensland Theatre association artistic executive Wesley Enoch), has helped renovate a company’s maternity process so dancers can work within a classification on “safe duties” before and after giving birth.
“It’s good for a association when we see a new immature attribute bloom,” he says of his 69-member troupe. “They’re all so tighten — there’s a outrageous loyalty pool, and even a bit of matchmaking going on.”
The Lincoln Center module includes 4 North American premieres: an all-Australian churned check (“Luminous,” “Dyad,” “Warumuk”) and Graeme Murphy’s critically acclaimed reimagining of “Swan Lake” — desirous by a unfortunate triangle of Princess Diana, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.
Here are a few (happier) real-life couples from Oz you’ll see onstage in New York.
JARRYD MADDEN LOVE AMY HARRIS
Four years ago, Amy Harris and Jarryd Madden found themselves partnered in Act 1 of a company’s “Swan Lake.” Bingo.
“We were spending a lot of time together inside a studio and during rehearsals, and it blossomed into a good romance,” says Harris, a 28-year-old comparison artist. “He also gives good calf massages.”
This year, both dancers are adult for Australian ballet’s top honor, a Telstra Ballet Dancer Award. Even so, they insist, they don’t cruise themselves competitors.
“Whenever we get a good purpose or Amy gets a good role, we’re unequivocally stoked for any other,” says a 24-year-old Madden, a coryphée (part of a tiny organisation of dancers). “What’s cave is hers, anyway.”
He says he dreams one day of partnering with his partner in a lushly regretful “Merry Widow.”
Look for them in a “Divergence” mention in “Luminous,” and again in “Swan Lake.”
KEVIN JACKSON LOVE CALVIN HANNAFORD
Principal dancer Kevin Jackson still remembers what he and his Romeo were wearing in 2009, when they met during a triple check of Stravinsky ballets: He was in “a uncanny devil-creature costume,” and Calvin Hannaford was dressed as a bear.
“The initial prolongation Calvin did was ‘Petrouchka’ and he was a large dancing bear,” says Jackson, 28. “I was doing ‘Firebird,’ and we met backstage only shouting during any other. It was a good connection.”
Soon after, they had their initial date during an organic pizza restaurant; final year, they bought an unit together.
Jackson — who’ll star as Prince Siegfried in “Swan Lake” — says he can’t wait until his 23-year-old partner, a member of a corps de ballet, rises by a ranks to join him.
“We’d both adore to dance a contemporary square for dual guys — that would be beautiful,” he says. “It’s not really mostly we dance with a man in a ballet, though it would only be good to be onstage behaving in a same show.”
DANIEL GAUDIELLO LOVE LANA JONES
The 29-year-olds met some-more than a decade ago as students during a Australian Ballet School. They common an unit for a year before adore came knocking.
Three years ago they married, after Gaudiello due on a towering in Fiji. “It was like a cranky between ‘Robinson Crusoe’ and ‘The Sound of Music,’ ” he laughs.
Promoted to principal artists in 2010, they’ll open a New York uncover with a dashingly costumed pas de deux.
“My favorite times onstage have been with Daniel, dancing,” says Lana. “There’s a certain patience that comes over you, looking in [his] eyes . . . It’s special to be means to share what we adore with a chairman we love, in a moment.”
The Australian Ballet performs “Infinity” tomorrow and Wednesday, and “Swan Lake” Friday by Sunday during a David H. Koch Theater; 212-496-0600; davidhkochtheater.com.
