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The Devil's Fiddle, Danced
Steven McRae and Vasko Vassilev on obsession, collaboration, and making Paganini "look cool" at the Linbury
Leila Lois
Leila Lois, a dance writer specialized in features, criticism and creative writing that captures feeling and place. Published internationally from Australia to Canada, she brings diverse media experience to every story, finding personality in culture worldwide.
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What Remains: A Thematic Journey Through Brisbane Festival
What do we take from this life, this land, this community, and what do we leave behind? Leila Lois talks to Ebony Bott and the artists shaping her first Brisbane Festival programme (4–26 September, 2026) to find out.
Features
Holding the Threads Together: Ballet Cymru at Forty
Leila Lois spends an afternoon in Newport to witness how a fiercely local, radically inclusive company is redefining classical ballet through the lens of Welsh heritage and contemporary bodies.
Features
Gods, Monsters, and The Limits of Mastery at Melbourne's Dance Biennale
Leila Lois speaks to the artists of Melbourne's RISING Dance Biennale and reveals a programme that feels urgent, uncomfortably alive, and may have saved an important contemporary dance festival.
Reviews
NYCB Winter Season Opens with Balanchine's Radiant Serenade and Sensual Prodigal Son
By Leila Lois — NYCB's opening night offered everything: the pure joy of Serenade, the frank sensuality of a rarely staged Prodigal Son, and the athletic brilliance of Paquita. Leila Lois travels from the Southern Hemisphere to see performances that honor ballet's full emotional spectrum.
Interviews
Zoë Bastin’s Dance with the Ocean’s Force in "The Break"
By Leila Lois — On Williamstown Beach, Zoe Bastin stages a choreography of defiance and endurance, where the waves echo the body’s refusal to be contained.
Interviews
A Match Made in Heaven: Conversation with Benjamin Hurley and Scott Elstermann
By Leila Lois — Mirror worlds, celestial themes, and tongue-in-cheek queerness collide as two dance artists create, Scenarios, their most ambitious collaboration yet.