I think of Chris as one of the best friends I've ever had.

It's made Maina available to us ? her staging of Giselle was absolutely wonderful, and we're really looking forward to having her back to restage it next year.

We'll do this a lot more often. It takes both enforcement and education to sever the lines.

The proof is that we've continued to commission him and have a very good relationship with him.

It's a scorecard of how the technical aspects of a company are going.

[So we won't be seeing the Australian Ballet consider a naked Albrecht, a la Mats Ek, any time soon?] It would not be the sort of thing that we would seek out, ... I think if one relies on sensationalist nudity to make a ballet relevant to a contemporary audience then there obviously is some work needed on that ballet.

The democratic process allows any politician with an agenda, any organization with a big enough showing, even any bureaucrat with enough zeal to initiate legislation that impacts others more than themselves.