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The Australian days of Annette Page, Ronald Hynd and Dudley Simpson

February 26, 2018 – 6:52 am

When Margot Fonteyn toured Australia in 1962 she brought with her an elite group of seven dancers, shown in the

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Annette Page, Australian Ballet, Borovansky Ballet, Dudley Simpson, Jill Bathurst, Pacific North West Ballet, Robert Helomann, Robin Haig, Ronald Hynd, Royal Ballet, Rudolf Nureyev, The Merry Widow | 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, Edouard Borovansky, Geoffrey Ingram, Hamlet, John Field, Margaret Scott, Ninette de Valois, Nugget Coombs, Peggy van Praagh, Robert Helpmann, Sadlers Wells Theatre Ballet, Sally Gilmour, Tamara Tchinarova, The Rake's Progress | Comments (0)

Vale Desmond Heeley, the man who, in his own words, made “dross into gold”

July 4, 2016 – 10:09 am

Desmond Heeley, the English stage designer who worked with Ballet Rambert, the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, John Cranko, Kenneth MacMillan,

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Australian Ballet, Brigadoon, Camelot, Colin Peasley, Cynthia Gregory, Danilo Radojevic, Desmond Heeley, Houston Ballet, John Crankp, John Meehan, Kelvin Coe, Kenneth MacMillan, Lance Mulcahy Ballet Rambert, Lucette Aldsou, Maina Gielgud, Marilyn Rowe, Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, Michael Benthall, Michael Edgley, Michael Langham, National Ballet of Canada, Old Vic, Peter Brook, Prince of the Pagodas, Ray Powell, Robert Helpmann, Solitaire, Squeaky Door, The Merry Widow, Yugen | Comments (3)

Mara Galeazzi returns to Australia for the gala, Ballet Stars Under the Stars

January 17, 2016 – 10:40 am

There are famous exceptions, among them Galina Ulanova, Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Sylvie Guillem, but few ballet dancers continue

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Ador, Alessandra Ferri, Australian Ballet, Australian Ballet School, Carla Fracci, Dominic Ballard, English National Ballet, Galina Ulanova, Graham Spicer, Gramilano, Jo Lee, Juliet Burnett, Kimbrian Bergh, Kirsty Lee Denovan, Mara Galeazzi, Melbourne Ballet Company, Mikhail Baryshnikov, PROJECTion Dance, Queensland Ballet, Royal Ballet, Slovac National Theatre, Sylvie Guillem, Tim Podesta, Wayne McGregor, Woolf Works | Comments (2)

Symphonic Variations as seen through the eyes of Wendy Ellis Somes

May 6, 2015 – 9:57 am

This article was first published in The Sydney Morning Herald. With its bomb sites, rubble and rationing, London in 1946

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged American Ballet Theatre, Australian Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Frederick Ashton, Het Nationale, Michael Somes, Sadlers Wells Ballet, Symphonic Variations, Wendy Ellis Somes | 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, Les Sylphides, New York City Library, University of Chicago Press, Victoria Tennant | 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, John Field, Lynn Seymour, Manon, Mayerling, Ninette de Valois, Royal Ballet, Voluntaries | Comments (1)

The many lives of the Corsaire pas de deux

April 3, 2013 – 8:57 pm

The pas de deux in Le Corsaire is one of the most famous moments in the classical ballet repertoire, yet

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Aggripina Vaganova, Alexei Ratmansky, Bolshoi Ballet, Joseph Mazilier, Jules Perrot, Le Corsaire, Mariiinsky, Rudolf Nureyev, Samuil Andrianv | Comments (1)

Nureyev in Le Corsaire: “Choreographed on him by God”

January 6, 2013 – 6:56 am

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Agrippina Vaganova, Alexander Chekrygin, Alexei Ratmansky, Alistair Macaulay, Drigo, Ezio Frigerio, Joseph Mazilier, Juiie Kavanagh, Jules Perrot, Le Corsaire, Marius Petipa, Nikolai Zubkovsky, Robert Greskovic, Rudolf Nureyev, Samuil Andrianov | Comments (0)

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 Field, John Frost, Kathleen Geldard, Lorna Mossford, Lynn Seymour, Margaret Knoesen, Margaret Lee, Ninette de Valois, Phillip Chatfield, Robert Helpmann, Rowena Jackson, Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, Susan Alexander, Svetlana Beriosova | Comments (4)

Tag Archives: Margot Fonteyn

The Australian days of Annette Page, Ronald Hynd and Dudley Simpson

Robert Helpmann 1958: From the nude with violin to the lunch with Nugget Coombs

Vale Desmond Heeley, the man who, in his own words, made “dross into gold”

Mara Galeazzi returns to Australia for the gala, Ballet Stars Under the Stars

Symphonic Variations as seen through the eyes of Wendy Ellis Somes

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

David Wall, the first Lescaut and Rudolf

The many lives of the Corsaire pas de deux

Nureyev in Le Corsaire: “Choreographed on him by God”

The Royal Ballet tour of Australia, 1958: the launch of a photographer’s career and the debut of a swan

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