After a year of turmoil, the company’s new leader isn’t the only unexpected announcement.
A former principal dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet and the Dutch National Ballet, Gil-Ortega, 47, will be the seventh artistic director since Queensland Ballet was founded in 1960.
Benjamin’s exit was one of several crises to hit Queensland arts organisations in 2024, including the resignation of Queensland Theatre’s Lee Lewis and that company’s subsequent decision to The company has been under a cloud since the departure of Li Cunxin, aka “Mao’s Last Dancer”, in 2023 due to ill health.
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