Queensland Ballet’s 2025 season dominated by safe works from the company’s past

After funding constraints led to the abrupt resignation of its last Artistic Director in August, Queensland Ballet’s 2025 season is predictably safe and crowd-pleasing.

26 Nov 2024 17:58

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

A publicity image for Queensland Ballet’s season 2025 production ‘Bespoke’. Photo: Supplied.

Queensland Ballet, which saw Artistic Director Leanne Benjamin OBE AM resign suddenly in August after less than a year in the role and has yet to be replaced, has launched its 2025 season.

Details of the new season were finalised by the company’s Acting Artistic Director, Greg Horsman, who previously served as Queensland Ballet’s Assistant Artistic Director.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts