Ethan Stiefel interview

As The Sleeping Beauty begins, the new artistic director of the RNZB discusses his move from New York to Wellington.

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26th October, 2011

Interview

The announcement that celebrated American ballet star Ethan Stiefel was to be the new artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB) was received with disbelief by overseas media. Why would a “giant of US ballet join four million people and 70 million sheep?” the Guardian asked in amazement. The New York Times, no less surprised but more restrained, painted him as an adventurer, unnaturally displaced from his urbane environs to far-flung Wellington, with nothing between him and the Antarctic. Three weeks into his three-year contract with the RNZB, the former ...

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