Edna Busse OAM, who played a special role in the history of ballet in Australia, has died at the age
No one excelled Robert Helpmann as a multi tasker. Dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, director and publicist, Helpmann was at the
As a postscript to the mystery man of Colonel de Basil’s Ballets Russes, Otis Pearce, this is the much briefer
The audience at Sydney’s Theatre Royal was thrilled to see the glamorous Ballets Russes’ star for the first time. The
As a child in the 1920s, Laurel Martyn saw Anna Pavlova dance in Brisbane. Of course she found Pavlova’s performances
Two dancers whose with close connections to Col de Basil’s Ballets Russes’ tours to Australia have died – Brigitte Kelly,
Max Dupain photographed many dancers in his Sydney studio, not only those who toured to Australia with the Ballets Russes’
It’s hard to know where this story began. Maybe in 1954, when Beverley Humphrey took her daughter, Sonia, to the