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Portraits of Valrene Tweedie [picture] / Maurice Seymour and John Goldston Studios
Bib ID 3044357
Format PicturePicture, OnlineOnline
Online Versions http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an13711129
Description [1940-1988] 
10 negatives : b&w ; 7.6 x 10.1 cm. 
Summary

Collection of photographs of Valrene Tweedie as a ballet dancer and a dance teacher. Includes: in costume for Symphonie Fantastique in De Basil's Ballet Russe in Chicago, in rehearsal with other dancers in New York, with Colonel De Basil after being accepted for his ballet company, as Columbine in "Carnaval" with Bruno Harvey & Graeme Smith at Princess Theatre in Melbourne, in "Quelques Fleurs" in New York, as Odalisque in "Scheherazade" in Chicago, as Czardas in "Raymonda" with Georges Verdak, at Cecchetti Congress dinner in Sydney in 1988, teaching at Lois Strike's studio in 1987.

Notes

Title from caption list.

Images individually catalogued and digitised.

Condition: Good.

Index/Finding Aid Note List available. 
Subjects Tweedie, Valrene, - 1925- - Portraits.  |  Ballets Russes du Col. W. de Basil - Photographs.  |  Ballerinas - Australia - Portraits.  |  Ballet dancers - Australia - Portraits.  |  Dance teachers - Australia - Portraits.  |  Picture - Photographs - Portraits.
Occupation Ballet dancers.  |  Dance teachers.
Other Authors Seymour, Maurice, 1904-  |  John Goldston Studios
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Details Collect From
PIC P1941/1-10 LOC Negatives Cabinet P1941
Copy: Copy negs in negative drawer.
Manual Request only from Pictures Reading Room, 2nd Floor