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Amanda McGuigan from the 'Sydney Opera House at Rest' series, 2020

Daniel Boud

inkjet print on paper

Amanda McGuigan is a dancer with The Australian Ballet. She has performed with major dance companies around the world including the American Ballet Theatre and the Dutch National Ballet. Forming part of Daniel Boud’s series for Sydney Opera House at rest, the photograph was taken during one of Sydney’s Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns in 2020. Of the shoot McGuigan recollected, ‘The most hauntingly beautiful experience was being in an empty Joan Sutherland Theatre. With no crew, no other dancers, no orchestra or audience … I know this crazy time will give me a strengthened appreciation of what I do and the joy that it brings to the audience.’

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