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The Ballets Russes in New Zealand: a happy holiday if you travelled in a Riley sportscar

April 3, 2013 – 9:56 am
Helene Kirsova, c 1938 photo © Max Dupain, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

On an arduous three-month tour of New Zealand by Col. de Basil’s Monte Carlo Russian Ballet in early 1937, the

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The Australian Ballet’s 50th year celebrations come to a close with documentary, talks, exhibitions

October 29, 2012 – 10:47 pm
Marilyn Rowe and Kelvin Coe in Swan Lake 1983. Photo courtesy of the Australian Ballet

From the words of the first artistic director – Peggy van Praagh – to the thoughts of the newest Odette/Odile

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Ballets Russes drawings find a permanent home in Australia

June 26, 2012 – 12:52 pm
Sir George Tallis, National Library of Australia

I recently wrote about a group of Ballets Russes’ drawings by Cecil Waller that were auctioned in Sydney in May

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How a crumbling roof in Dorset brought a Ballets Russes’ gallery to Australia

May 24, 2012 – 8:10 am
Tamara Toumanova 1934

I first saw these Ballets Russes’ drawings at Martyn Cook’s antique showroom in Queen Street, Woollahra in 2009. They’ve intrigued

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Beth Dean and Moscelyne Jasinsky: Parallel lives devoted to dance

April 28, 2012 – 11:47 pm
Beth Dean as the Initiate, Corroboree, 1954, courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, PXA 739/1867

The deaths of two dancers, one in Sydney, New South Wales, the other in Tulsa, Oklahoma, are reminders of the

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The keepers of the flame

November 20, 2011 – 12:21 am
Les Sylphides, Daryl Lindsay

Summing up a year’s research at the Mitchell Library in Sydney, I spoke last week about my discoveries as the

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Valentin Zeglovsky: on stage, backstage and at the studio of Max Dupain

November 12, 2011 – 1:34 am

Max Dupain photographed many dancers in his Sydney studio, not only those who toured to Australia with the Ballets Russes’

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The Ballets Russes in Australia and Beyond

July 31, 2011 – 8:35 am
Serge Ismailoff, Anna Volkova, Oleg Tupine, Tamara Tchinarova and Paul Petroff, 1938

In the winter of 2005, the University of Adelaide, the National Library of Australia and the Australian Ballet, received a

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Alison’s moment in Dupain’s spotlight

March 10, 2011 – 12:51 pm
Alison Lee, photograph Max Dupain, ca 1940

Within the vast collection of Max Dupain’s dance photographs at the State Library of New South Wales is a sub

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Ballets Russes film found

February 1, 2011 – 8:12 am
Diaghilev with Serge Lifar

Very close to the close of the Victoria & Albert’s Diaghilev exhibition in London, the curator, Jane Pritchard, has uncovered

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