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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 Ballet Rambert, Borovansky Ballet, Charles Lisner, Coppelia, Derek Denton, Edinburgh International Ballet, Edouard Borovansky, Geoffrey Ingram, Hamlet, 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)

David Wall, the first Lescaut and Rudolf

June 19, 2013 – 10:33 am

David Wall, one of the Royal Balletâ€™s most acclaimed principal dancers, has died at the age of 67. Born in

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged David Wall, Frederick Ashton, Jann Parry, Lynn Seymour, Manon, Margot Fonteyn, Mayerling, Ninette de Valois, Royal Ballet, Voluntaries | Comments (1)

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

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

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Alan Alder, Anne Heaton, Anya Linden, Audrey Farris, Bryan Ashbridge, Colin Jones, David Blair, Donald Britton, Donald MacCleary, Edward Miller, Elaine Fifield, Gillian Orpin, Gordon Aitken, Henry Legerton, John Frost, Kathleen Geldard, Lorna Mossford, Lynn Seymour, Margaret Knoesen, Margaret Lee, Margot Fonteyn, Ninette de Valois, Phillip Chatfield, Robert Helpmann, Rowena Jackson, Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, Susan Alexander, Svetlana Beriosova | Comments (4)

The keepers of the flame

November 20, 2011 – 12:21 am

Summing up a year’s research at the Mitchell Library in Sydney, I spoke last week about my discoveries as the

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Alicia Markova, Andris Liepa, Anna Volkova, Ballets Russes, Daryl Lindsay, Frederick Ashton, Irina Baronova, Isabelle Fokine, John Cranko, Les Sylphides, Michel Fokine, Onegin, Svetlana Beriosova, Tony Dyson, Valrene Tweedie, Violetta Elvin | Comments (2)