Queensland Ballet (QB) is now a step closer to realising its Three Sites: One Vision strategy that to date has seen a revitalised home in the Thomas Dixon Centre in West End, alongside a purpose-built Queensland Ballet Academy at Kelvin Grove. This vision was the brainchild of former Artistic Director, Li Cunxin AO and Executive Director, Dilshani Weerasinghe.
Now the company’s third stage of its vision, a dedicated production centre to house its set and costume assets, is about to be realised, after the purchase of land just 200 metres from the Thomas Dixon Centre. Weerasinghe tells ArtsHub: ‘We had owned a site at Yatala that we had planned to develop as a production centre. But the opportunity arose to buy this smaller site on Montague Road allowing us to consolidate our goal of Three Sites: One Vision. We sold the Yatala site and can now afford to refit this new centre, with the surplus going into our Forever Fund.’
