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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, John Field, Margaret Scott, Margot Fonteyn, Ninette de Valois, Nugget Coombs, Peggy van Praagh, Robert Helpmann, Sadlers Wells Theatre Ballet, Tamara Tchinarova, The Rake's Progress | Comments (0)

The dancer as brand ambassador, then and now

August 6, 2017 – 9:27 am

â€œSo famous she has no time to eatâ€. Could the ballerina, Alicia Markova really have given her blessing to an

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Alicia Markova, Anna Pavlova, Benjamn Millepied, Colonel de Basil, Darcey Bussell, Irine Baronova, Misty Copeland, Sergei Polunin | Comments (0)

Sally Gilmour: the fey and foxy lady of the Ballet Rambert

May 25, 2014 – 9:42 am

Just as every male ballet dancer was upstaged by Rudolf Nureyev in the 1960s, so did female dancers suffer from

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Allan Wynn, Australian Ballet School, Ballet Rambert, Bernard Lawson, Jill Sykes, Lady Into Fox, Loudon Sainthill, Margaret Scott, Marie Rambert, Peter Robb, Sabina Wynn, Simon Wynn, Tamara Karsavina, Toby Wynn, Walter Gore | Comments (2)

Dancing with the Planets

September 16, 2013 – 10:54 pm

In Alexei Ratmanskyâ€™s new Cinderella for the Australian Ballet, the heroine is taken to the ball by a rotation of

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Alexei Ratmansky, Antony Tudor, Australian Ballet, Ballet Rambert, Cinderella, Dark Elegies, Donna Perlmutter, Gala Performance, Gustav Holst, Hugh Laing, Jardin aux Lilas, John Gilpin, Kurt Jooss, Kyra Nijinsky, Lilac Garden, Marie Rambert, Peggy van Praagh, Pillar of Fire, Shadowplay, The Divine Horseman, The Planets | Comments (8)