Photographs of Anton Dolin and others in ballet performances [1] [picture]
- Bib ID:
- 1585953
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- [between 1938 and 1948]
- 1 album (69 photographs) : silver gelatin ; 43.2 x 35.6 cm. and smaller.
- Summary:
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Album of 69 black and white and sepia toned photographs assembled by Anton Dolin, as a record of a particular era in his dancing career. 63 photographs were taken during the Australian tour of the Covent Garden Russian Ballet in 1938-1939. Photographers represented include Hugh P. Hall, Nanette Kuehn, Andre, Spencer Shier and Wolf Pitsch. Works represented are Swan Lake Act II, Aurora's Wedding, Le Spectre de la rose, Les Sylphides, Bolero, Symphonie fantastique, Scheherazade, The Firebird, Jeux d'enfants, Protee and The Prodigal Son. Other material consists of photographic portraits mostly taken by Gordon Anthony in London in 1948.
- Biography/History:
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Anton Dolin was the stage name of Sydney Francis Patrick Chippendall Healey-Kay (1904-1983), an English ballet dancer, director and choreographer. Dolin was born in Slinfold in Sussex. He joined Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1921, was a principal there from 1924, and was a principal with the Vic-Wells Ballet in the 1930s. There he danced with Alicia Markova, with whom he went on to found the Markova-Dolin Ballet and the London Festival Ballet. Dolin wrote several books, including the autobiography Ballet go round (1938) and Alicia Markova: her life and art (1953). He was knighted in 1981.
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- Title supplied by cataloguer.
- For photographs depicting ballet performances by New York companies see: Photographs of Anton Dolin and others in ballet performances [2] held in Pictorial Section, National Library of Australia, Album 889.
- "Australia 1938-1939, London 1948"--Handwritten on label attached to front cover.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-142938046
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- All photographs out of copyright in 1997.
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