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Colin Peasley’s golden years with the Australian Ballet

August 7, 2012 – 1:34 pm

We knew it was coming but today, Colin Peasley announced that he would retire from the Australian Ballet at the

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The Fonteyn Follies of ’62

March 31, 2012 – 12:22 pm

With the men in miniscule swimming costumes, and the women dressed modestly in summer shirts and cotton trousers, Margot Fonteyn

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GenÃ©e winners in 2011, the last year of the RAD reign of Dame Antoinette

October 10, 2011 – 9:56 am

Three silver medals but no gold were awarded on Sunday at the Royal Academy of Danceâ€™s GenÃ©e International Ballet Competition

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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

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Sydney, 1957: How Fonteyn stopped the city

June 19, 2011 – 1:02 pm

Margot Fonteyn, newly created a Dame of the British Empire, arrived at Mascot Airport, Sydney, in May 1957 in a

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When Fonteyn and BQ called on E.O. HoppÃ©

May 30, 2011 – 4:06 pm

Margot Fonteyn was 16 when she visited the London studio of Emil Otto HoppÃ©. The year was 1935, and by

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When Princess Margaret met Rudi, Margot, Peggy, and Bobby

April 17, 2011 – 4:07 am

It’s London, December 1965, and Princess Margaret with arrives with Lord Snowdon to see the Australian Ballet perform Raymonda, with

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The Blue Bird and the Princess of Monaco

April 4, 2011 – 10:30 pm

Ballet and the ruling Grimaldi family of Monaco have danced cheek to cheek for a century. But the death last

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