Alexa Tuzil is used to dancing across a stage in front of hundreds of people so it was an unusual experience to perform pirouettes in her kitchen on a tiny square of sprung floor.
"We could do our pirouettes on the floor, but we never actually jumped to prevent any injuries because we're used to a professional ballet floor. To then go to jumping on concrete is quite dangerous," she said."Sometimes it was difficult because it's hard to get motivated in the morning doing class in your kitchen," she said.
Many of the dancers are from interstate and overseas, including Ms Tuzil, so it also gave their families and opportunity to see them perform."When the lockdowns were starting to ease, they created this CoVid Lab where put us into groups of two and we each choreographed a different piece to music and it kept us busy and kept our minds creating," Ms Tuzil said.
WA Ballet executive director Olivier David said when the first performances were cancelled, more than 400 people donated their tickets back to the ballet instead of asking for a refund."We're very grateful to these people and it shows how much people in Western Australia love arts and love West Australian ballet," he said.
"The endowment fund is a pool of money that we keep to ensure the security and longevity of West Australian ballet," Mr David said. "I'm even trying to get young artists from Melbourne and they are supposed to start in January, I don't think they will be able to come, it is it is real issue."This year marks WA Ballet's 70th year – it's the longest running ballet company still operating in Australia."The way I wanted to celebrate 70 years anniversary was to have creations the whole year through," he said.
Being in WA probably helped, where the state border was closed but everything else was open
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