Australian premiere of Fabulous Beast’s The Rite of Spring / Petrushka.

Brisbane Festival premieres Fabulous Beast’s update of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Petrushka.
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Brisbane Festival premieres Fabulous Beast’s update of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Petrushka.


Ireland’s Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre presents a double bill of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Petrushka in an Australian premiere for Brisbane Festival. For this performance, director and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan has reworked his triumphant 2009 co-production of the masterpiece with the English National Opera and paired it with the lesser known Petrushka to make a compelling contrast of the visceral and the ethereal. 

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Paul Isbel is a former ArtsHub contributor and a publicist for the Australasian Arts and Antiques Dealers Association. Most recently he was a course designer for an entry-level vocational training program for the arts sector.