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The Firebird – choreography by Liam Scarlett

28 April 2018

9:00 AM

28 April 2018

9:00 AM

Not every young Artistic Director writes a best-selling memoir that is made into a successful feature film. Mao’s Last Dancer was written by Li Cunxin, the Artistic Director of Queensland Ballet, happily contracted at least until 2020. QB has developed strong community links; just last week ABC Breakfast television featured the company’s ballet class for older people, a studio full of dancing people of a certain age.

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