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Australian Ballet School

BUTTERFLY

PLAYHOUSE, ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE REVIEWED DECEMBER 9

BUTTERFLY, created by Lucas Jervies especially for the Australian Ballet School, really is a very clever creation. It takes the conventions of a traditional classical ballet and gives them a new angle. There is the journey from the human world to the supernatural world, where the "hero" (like a hapless Siegfried or Albrecht) finds himself in an enchanted world of supernatural beings; there are "fairies" –

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