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Edna Busse: “I was determined to be a ballerina”

January 5, 2019 – 9:38 am

Edna Busse OAM, who played a special role in the history of ballet in Australia, has died at the age

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Barry Kitcher, Borovansky Ba;;, Edna Busse, Eunice Weston, Mathilde Kschessinska, The Black Swan, The Good Old Days, Tivoli Circuit, Xenia Borovansky | Comments (0)

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 Ballet Rambert, Borovansky Ballet, Charles Lisner, Coppelia, Derek Denton, Edinburgh International Ballet, 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)

Madame Larose in her underground treasure cave

February 4, 2016 – 12:16 pm

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

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Anna Tchinarova, Ballets Russes, Colonel de Basil, Helene Kirsova, Olga Larose, Tamara Tchinarova, Tamara Toumanova | Comments (0)

David Lichine’s Australian years with and without Borovansky

January 7, 2014 – 12:38 pm

The audience at Sydneyâ€™s Theatre Royal was thrilled to see the glamorous Ballets Russesâ€™ star for the first time. The

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Alida Belair, Alida Glasbeck, Austrailan Ballet, Borovansky Ballet, Choreartium, David Lichine, Elaine Haxton, Graduation Ball, Irina Baronova, John Auld, Les Dieux Mendicants, Nutcracker, Peggy Sager, Protee, Tatiana Riabouchinska, The Prodigal Son | Comments (2)

Laurel Martyn, once a dancer, always a dancer

October 27, 2013 – 10:41 am

As a child in the 1920s, Laurel Martyn saw Anna Pavlova dance in Brisbane. Of course she found Pavlovaâ€™s performances

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Adeline Genee, Anna Pavlova, Ballet Guild, Felix Emery, Jennie Brenan, Judith Espinosa, Laurel Martyn, Marjorie Hollinshed, Ninette de Valois, Phyllis Bedells, Royal Academy of Dancing, Sadlers Wells Ballet, The Rake's Progress, Vic-Wells Ballet | Comments (0)

Brigitte Kelly and Strelsa Heckelman: lives dedicated to dance

January 13, 2013 – 9:00 pm

Two dancers whose with close connections to Col de Basilâ€™s Ballets Russes’ tours to Australia have died – Brigitte Kelly,

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Anglo-Polish Ballet, Brigitte Kelly, Col. de Basil, Dancing Years, Gay Rosalinda, Helene Kirsova, J C Williamson, Leon Woizikowski, Les Ballets Trois Arts, Maria Sanina, Marie Rambert, Matt Mattox, Michel Fokine, Oklahoma!, Strelsa Heckelman, The King and I, Vassilli Trunoff | Comments (2)

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 Russesâ€™

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Ballets Russes, Helene Kirsova, Max Dupain, Pamela Bromley Smith, Tamara Tchinarova, Valentin Zeglovsky | Comments (4)

When Sonia met Margot

June 30, 2011 – 1:42 pm

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

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Sonia Humphrey | Comments (6)