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The “wonderful” life of Sir Peter Wright

February 4, 2015 – 11:24 am

This article first appeared in the Australian Ballet’s program for its 2014 season of Sir Peter Wright’s Nutcracker in Melbourne

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Anna Volkova, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Carlos Acosta, Coppelia, Giselle, Natalia Osipova, Nutcracker, Peggy van Praagh, Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, Sir Peter Wright, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake | Comments (0)

“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, Ballet Rambert, Dark Elegies, Dimitri Romonoff, Eugene Loring, Hugh Laing, Igor Youskevitch, Jardin aux Lilas, John Krizia, Judgment of Paris, Kevin McKenzie, Leonard Lavrovsky, Lucia Chase, Max Goberman, Michel Fokine, Mikhail Mordkin, Muriel Bentley, Nora Kaye, Oliver Smith, Prokofiev, Richard Pleasant, Romeo & Juliet | Comments (0)

Irina Baronova, seen through the eyes of her daughter, Victoria Tennant

December 16, 2014 – 11:09 am

This article first appeared in the Good Weekend supplement of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Tucked in a

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Agrippina Vaganova, Arnold Haskell, Australian Ballet, Cecil Tennant, George Balanchine, Gerry Sevastianov, Irina Baronova, Kirk Stambler, Laurence Olivier, Margot Fonteyn, New York City Library, University of Chicago Press, Victoria Tennant | Comments (0)

Anna Volkova Barnes 1917-2013

August 30, 2013 – 10:38 pm

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

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Anna Volkova, Australian Ballet, Colonel de Basil, David Lichine, George Balanchine, Leonide Massine, Michel Fokine, Olga Preobrajenska | Comments (0)

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, John Field, Michel Fokine, Onegin, Svetlana Beriosova, Tony Dyson, Valrene Tweedie, Violetta Elvin | Comments (2)

A gala for Galina

May 16, 2011 – 5:28 pm

Londonâ€™s Russian community was out in force on Sunday night at the Coliseum for the sixth annual gala under the

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged Berlin Staatsoper, Bolshoi Ballet, Diana and Acteon, English National Ballet, Flames of Paris, Galina Ulanova, Le Parc, Macbeth, Mariinsky Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Russian Ballet Gala, Sinatra Suite, the Dying Swan, The Red Poppy, Vladimir Vasiliev | Comments (0)

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