Max Dupain : Australian tours of the Ballets Russes, Kirsova Ballet, Bodenwieser Ballet, Valentin Ze...
Max Dupain : Australian tours of the Ballets Russes, Kirsova Ballet, Bodenwieser Ballet, Valentin Zeglovsky and Sydney Dance Company : photographs and photonegatives
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1936-1986
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Pictures and Photographs
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Photographs - 20.5 x 25.5 cm. or smaller (2 12 x 16 cm. photoprints) - 663 photoprints (chiefly contact prints)
Photographs - 12 x 16 cm. or smaller - 816 photonegatives
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This collection comprises 77 record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record.
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A 1939 London revue "Around the clock" included a modern dance specialty from the Bodenwieser Dance Group, founded by Gertrud Bodenwieser. Gertrud Bodenwieser was touring Colombia with another of her companies and returned with New Zealand dancer Shona Dunlop after the tour to Wellington. The Bodenwieser group had decided to stay in Australia after...
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Max Dupain : Australian tours of the Ballets Russes, Kirsova Ballet, Bodenwieser Ballet, Valentin Zeglovsky and Sydney Dance Company : photographs and photonegatives
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REFERENCES
Dancing round the world / Arnold L. Haskell -- Gollancz, 1937
De Basil's Ballets Russes / Katherine S. Walker -- 1982
The Ballets Russes / Vincent Garcia-Marquez -- 1980
The Home Magazine -- Sydney, 1937
Ballet in Australia : the second act 1940-80 / E.H. Pask -- 1982
Pioneering ballet in Australia / P. Bellew (ed.) --...
Signature / Inscriptions
Photographs titled on reverse by National Gallery of Australia
Contextual Information
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Presented under Cultural Gifts Program, Feb 2002
Administrative / Biographical history
BALLETS RUSSES (AUSTRALIAN TOURS 1936-1940)
Between 1936 and 1940 three Ballets Russes companies, under the direction of entrepreneur Colonel Wassily de Basil, visited Australia. The Monte Carlo Russian Ballet toured between 1936 and 1937, the Covent Garden Russian Ballet from 1938 to 1939 and the Original Ballet Russe between 1939-1940. A numbe...
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nZNooymn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNooymn
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414307
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