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New Narratives from Old Texts

This chapter briefly examines two early Australian works, Terra Australis (1946), by Edouard Borovansky, and The Display (1964), by Robert Helpmann. In these works, both choreographers used a strong narrative structure to focus on issues that were significant in Australian society and culture at the time the ballets were made. The chapter then highlights in greater depth two works, Nutcracker: The Story of Clara (1992) and Swan Lake (2002), created by choreographer Graeme Murphy in collaboration with his creative associate Janet Vernon and designer Kristian Fredrikson. It examines the way in which Murphy and his collaborative team recontextualized old and well-known texts to speak powerfully to a contemporary audience, to bring exceptional drama and realism to contemporary dance, and to give audiences completely new and challenging ways of reading well-known works from the international ballet repertoire.