Australian Ballet: "The Display"

A couple of years ago I attended a meeting of the Ladies Probus Club of Emerald. Each month they have a speaker come in to give a presentation - and on this occasion, the speaker was Barry Kitcher - a retired ballet dancer who was with the world-famous Australian Ballet. He was an excellent speaker who fascinated us with his stories about what it was like to be part of the ballet.

Part of his talk included telling us about one particular piece: "The Display" - a ballet that was, in part, inspired by Australia's Lyrebirds. Mr. Kitcher was the first to dance the part of the lyrebird, a role which called for him to wear an amazing costume (shown in this photo).

As part of his talk, he told us that "The Display" was going to be revived by the Australian Ballet this year, and would be performed here sometime during the year. I've been eagerly looking forward to this, and recently learned that it is part of a performance named "Icons" (which includes The Display, plus two other Australian works) that is coming to Melbourne in September.

And, yes.... we've got tickets!