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Article: AUSSIE DANCERS OFFER `PIRATES! THE BALLET'.(PREVIEW)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 14, 1996
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Byline: TRESCA WEINSTEIN Special to the Times Union
Culture Australian-style comes to Proctor's Theatre on Sunday, and it's a far cry from Crocodile Dundee.
Direct from Down Under, the Queensland Ballet brings to Schenectady the first-ever ballet version of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic ``Pirates of Penzance.''
``Pirates! The Ballet,'' which artistic director Harold Collins calls ``ballet with Broadway overtones,'' was choreographed by an American, but its high spirits and powerhouse dancing make it typical of the Australian style and temperament.
``Young Australians are very athletic because they're brought up in the outdoors,'' ...