Ivan Head: Ballet at the Sydney Opera House
Ballet at the Sydney Opera House: Thinking about Slessor
At Interval we take our bubbly outside to the rain.
The agile dancers cease and change,
the panto team released
from within Don Quixote’s stage mule
Dancers in Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
will soon evoke Waterlilies,
Indigenous and far from Paris,
It’s red earth and didgeridoo.
A jet boat booms on its way to Manly.
An older ferry turns in Harbour bright.
A floodlight cups like a hand
and gestures in upward beam the floating beads of rain
that stream and drift across the white tile sails.
It’s a night vintage of motes and Moets.
Ivan Head
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