Performance dates and times

Friday 20 September 2013, 7.30pm
Saturday 21 September 2013, 7.30pm
Thursday 26 September 2013, 7.30pm
Friday 27 September 2013, 7.30pm
Saturday 28 September 2013, 2.00pm
Saturday 28 September 2013, 7.30pm
Tuesday    01 October 2013, 6.30pm
Friday 04 October 2013, 7.30pm
Saturday 05 October 2013, 2.00pm
Saturday 05 October 2013, 7.30pm

Ticket prices

Premium
Adult $108
Group $108
Senior/Pensioner $108
Youth (26 or under) $108
Child/Student $108

A-reserve
Adult $86
Group $78
Senior/Pensioner $72
Youth (26 or under) $63
Under 30 (Thursday only) $30
Child/Student $54

B-reserve
Adult $59
Group $55
Senior/Pensioner $55
Youth (26 or under) $44
Under 30 (Thursday only) $30
Child/Student $38

C-reserve
Adult $25
Group $25
Senior/Pensioner $25
Youth (26 or under) $25
Child/Student $25

Biography

JOHN CRANKO

South Africa’s John Cranko began his career dancing with Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet and Sadler’s Wells Ballet at Covent Garden. At only 23 years of age, he began his choreographic career, creating many ballets for Sadler’s Wells and the Royal Ballet. Cranko accepted an invitation to become director of the Stuttgart Ballet in 1961, and turned the provincial German company into one of the world’s leading ensembles, with a team of superb dancers – such as Haydée, Barra, and Cragun.
His early death from a heart attack was a tremendous loss to the international ballet world, as well as to Stuttgart. As a choreographer, he was one of the few in the late 20th century to create creditable full-length story ballets. He could handle comedy, tragedy, and romance equally well, and his productions of Romeo and Juliet, Onegin, and The Taming of the Shrew have become mainstays of the international repertoire.