Wow! The impact of entering the grand promenade of the refurbished Thomas Dixon Centre is an experience in itself. Before you’ve even got to the performance, you’ve been transported to a stimulating cosmopolitan realm.

Queensland Ballet’s reimagined home successfully juxtaposes old and new – the comfortable familiarity of heritage with the excitement of novelty and possibility. It’s been designed as a cultural and community hub that invites the outside world in, to observe, become immersed, wonder at and enjoy, starting with the foyer exhibition The Secret Lives of Costumes and soon adding dining to dancing.

Petros Treklis’s Tethered, Bespoke, Queensland Ballet, 2022. Photo © David Kelly

Anticipation goes hand-in-hand with the “new” smell of the 350-seat Talbot Theatre, its intimate auditorium facing a classic luxe red velvet curtain. Behind that lies a spacious stage the same size as QPAC’s Lyric Theatre’s.

The production values for Bespoke match the setting, and it’s the type of triple bill that stretches the company and the audience. Each work generates its own distinct milieu, and the movement styles and mood are eclectic and divergent.

Petros Treklis’s Tethered immediately transports us to an ominous netherworld dominated by...