Tag Archives: Colonel de Basil

The Australian Ballet 2020

September 29, 2019 – 1:06 pm

Although David McAllister’s retirement as artistic director of the Australia Ballet was announced back in May, the absolute certainty of

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The dancer as brand ambassador, then and now

August 6, 2017 – 9:27 am

“So famous she has no time to eat”. Could the ballerina, Alicia Markova really have given her blessing to an

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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

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Sono Osato, a woman of mystery, magic and courage, who survived racism, and the slings and arrows of working for Colonel de Basil

April 25, 2016 – 8:11 am

A serendipitous chain of events this month began when a Sydney Morning Herald columnist asked for help with an article

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Madame Larose in her underground treasure cave

February 4, 2016 – 12:16 pm

As a postscript to the mystery man of Colonel de Basil’s Ballets Russes, Otis Pearce, this is the much briefer

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Tracing the path of the mystery man of the Ballets Russes in Australia

January 27, 2016 – 9:29 pm

His first name was Otis. His second name was Pearce, or maybe Pierce, as his name was often spelt. He

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Anna Volkova Barnes 1917-2013

August 30, 2013 – 10:38 pm

She liked to say she led two lives – the first as a ballerina who danced on stages from Paris

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Anna Volkova: a life well lived, from Moscow to a sheep farm in New South Wales

August 20, 2013 – 1:10 pm

There are transitions and then there are major life changes. Anna Volkova, who died in Sydney last weekend aged 96,

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Ballets Russes drawings find a permanent home in Australia

June 26, 2012 – 12:52 pm

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

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