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The many lives of the Corsaire pas de deux

April 3, 2013 – 8:57 pm
Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, Bolshoi production of Don Quixote, London 2010, photo courtesy John Ross

The pas de deux in Le Corsaire is one of the most famous moments in the classical ballet repertoire, yet

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Nureyev in Le Corsaire: “Choreographed on him by God”

January 6, 2013 – 6:56 am
Nureyev, photo © Cecil Beaton

It’s 20 years today since Rudolf Nureyev died at Notre Dame du Perpétuel Secours hospital in Paris. The time of

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The Royal Ballet tour of Australia, 1958: the launch of a photographer’s career and the debut of a swan

November 29, 2012 – 7:36 am
Lynn Seymour, Royal Ballet, 1958, photo Norm Danvers, courtesy State Library of NSW, Mitchell Library, Australian Photographic Agency - 05948

Today, when a ballet company goes on an international tour, the dancers are lucky to spend a couple of weeks

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Colin Peasley’s golden years with the Australian Ballet

August 7, 2012 – 1:34 pm
Colin Peasley, photographer unknown

We knew it was coming but today, Colin Peasley announced that he would retire from the Australian Ballet at the

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The Fonteyn Follies of ’62

March 31, 2012 – 12:22 pm
Front row, l to r: Ronald Emblen, Annette Page, Bryan Ashbridge. Back row, l to r: Margot Fonteyn, Brian Shaw, Maryon Lane, David Blair

With the men in miniscule swimming costumes, and the women dressed modestly in summer shirts and cotton trousers, Margot Fonteyn

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Genée winners in 2011, the last year of the RAD reign of Dame Antoinette

October 10, 2011 – 9:56 am
Genee 2011 medallists, l to r: Jin Hao Zhang, Mana Ogawa, Si Jia Miao, Ashley Scott, Mlindi Kulashe

Three silver medals but no gold were awarded on Sunday at the Royal Academy of Dance’s Genée International Ballet Competition

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When Sonia met Margot

June 30, 2011 – 1:42 pm
Sonia Humphrey, Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes, May 1957

It’s hard to know where this story began. Maybe in 1954, when Beverley Humphrey took her daughter, Sonia, to the

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Sydney, 1957: How Fonteyn stopped the city

June 19, 2011 – 1:02 pm
Frank Tait with Margot Fonteyn, curtain call

Margot Fonteyn, newly created a Dame of the British Empire, arrived at Mascot Airport, Sydney, in May 1957 in a

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When Fonteyn and BQ called on E.O. Hoppé

May 30, 2011 – 4:06 pm
Margot Fonteyn

Margot Fonteyn was 16 when she visited the London studio of Emil Otto Hoppé. The year was 1935, and by

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When Princess Margaret met Rudi, Margot, Peggy, and Bobby

April 17, 2011 – 4:07 am

It’s London, December 1965, and Princess Margaret with arrives with Lord Snowdon to see the Australian Ballet perform Raymonda, with

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