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Robert Helpmann 1958: From the nude with violin to the lunch with Nugget Coombs

October 29, 2017 – 11:55 am

No one excelled Robert Helpmann as a multi tasker. Dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, director and publicist, Helpmann was at the

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Borovansky Ballet, Charles Lisner, Coppelia, Derek Denton, Edinburgh International Ballet, Edouard Borovansky, Geoffrey Ingram, Hamlet, John Field, Margaret Scott, Margot Fonteyn, Ninette de Valois, Nugget Coombs, Peggy van Praagh, Robert Helpmann, Sadlers Wells Theatre Ballet, Sally Gilmour, Tamara Tchinarova, The Rake's Progress | Comments (0)

When the baby ballerinas took a detour to the silver screen

November 1, 2016 – 1:14 pm

How many ballet dancers these days become actors? There are some, of course, including Baryshnikov, but I think the peak

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Baby ballerinas, Bronislava Nijinska, Col. de Basil, Colonel de Basil, Cyd Charisse, David Lichine, Gerry Sevastianov, Irina Baronova, J C Williamson, Leslie Caron, Moira Shearer, Renee Jeanmaire, Tamara Toumanova, Tatiana Riabouchinska | Comments (1)

“Thank you, dear Lucia”: American Ballet Theatre celebrates 75 years

January 12, 2015 – 10:50 am

Two years before the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor in December 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt began to

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Alex C Ewing, Alicia Alonso, American Ballet Theatre, Antony Tudor, Dark Elegies, Dimitri Romonoff, Eugene Loring, Hugh Laing, Igor Youskevitch, Jardin aux Lilas, John Krizia, Judgment of Paris, Kevin McKenzie, Leonard Lavrovsky, Les Sylphides, Lucia Chase, Max Goberman, Michel Fokine, Mikhail Mordkin, Muriel Bentley, Nora Kaye, Oliver Smith, Prokofiev, Richard Pleasant, Romeo & Juliet | Comments (0)

Sally Gilmour: the fey and foxy lady of the Ballet Rambert

May 25, 2014 – 9:42 am

Just as every male ballet dancer was upstaged by Rudolf Nureyev in the 1960s, so did female dancers suffer from

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Allan Wynn, Australian Ballet School, Bernard Lawson, Jill Sykes, Lady Into Fox, Loudon Sainthill, Margaret Scott, Marie Rambert, Peter Robb, Sabina Wynn, Sally Gilmour, Simon Wynn, Tamara Karsavina, Toby Wynn, Walter Gore | Comments (2)

Dancing with the Planets

September 16, 2013 – 10:54 pm

In Alexei Ratmanskyâ€™s new Cinderella for the Australian Ballet, the heroine is taken to the ball by a rotation of

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Alexei Ratmansky, Antony Tudor, Australian Ballet, Cinderella, Dark Elegies, Donna Perlmutter, Gala Performance, Gustav Holst, Hugh Laing, Jardin aux Lilas, John Gilpin, Kurt Jooss, Kyra Nijinsky, Lilac Garden, Marie Rambert, Peggy van Praagh, Pillar of Fire, Sally Gilmour, Shadowplay, The Divine Horseman, The Planets | Comments (8)

A treasure trove of ballet signatures from the ’40s

September 16, 2012 – 1:03 pm

My recent post about the artist, Phyllis McLachlan, led me to the website of Douglas Stewart Fine Books in Melbourne

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Col. de Basil, Original Ballet Russe, Wesley Hooper | Comments (3)

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