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Dame Peggy van Praagh collection [picture]
Bib ID 3044979
Format PicturePicture, OnlineOnline
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Description 1916-1990. 
157 photographs : some col. ; 30.5 x 25 cm. and smaller + 36 colour slides 
Summary

Photographs include portraits of Peggy van Praagh (PvP): as a child, 1912-1920; teaching in Margaret Craske's studio, 1940; in ENSA uniform for Sadler's Wells tour of Germany, 1945; Cecchetti Farewell dinner, 1960; Sydney, 1962; teaching in Singapore, 1961; portraits dated 1942, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1980, 1982; at the conferring of Doctor of Letters, University of New England, 1974, and Doctor of Laws, University of Melbourne, 1981; in her Parkville flat. PvP in various roles: with Therese Langfield and Charlotte Bidmead at the Player's Theatre, Covent Garden, [1937-45?]; in an Hungarian dance, and Contre Danse, 1930s, with Molly Lake's Marilyn Dancers; as The Woman in his Past in Jardin aux Lilas, 1936; as Bolero in Soiree Musicale, [1938]; with Hugh Laing in The gods go a'begging, 1938; with Agnes de Mille, Anthony Tudor, Hugh Laing and Margaret Braithwaite in Gallant Assembly, 1938; as Mortal born under Neptune in The planets, 1939; as the Russian ballerina in Gala performance, 1939; in Dark Elegies, 1939; as Swanhilda, Coppelia, 1940; as Vivandiere in Cap over Mill, 1940. PvP photographed with: Franz Baur [1956]; Lia Schubert, Boris Kniaseff, and Victor Gsovsky [1957?]; Michael Frostick and Charles Mackerras, 1958; Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev at Chequers [1964]; Dr Coombs, 1969; Agnes de Mille and Martin Finestein, 1972; Ray Powell; Peter Brinson, 1975; Kelvin Coe; Peter Brinson and Warren Lett, 1977; Christopher Sexton and Shirley McKechnie; Chris Sexton, Kelvin Coe, Modesta Gentile [?], Shirley McKechnie and Noel Pelly [?]; Dame Margaret Scott and others 1981; Betty Pounder on This is your life; Ursula Moreton and G.B. Wilson. Also portraits of : John Cranko [with poster for Sea change, 1949]; PvP's mother Ethel van Praagh; Bryan Lawrence and Elaine Fifield; Sir Frank Tait; Anne Ludmilla [?]; PvP and others appearing on Danny Angle's This is your Life, 1958. Also 16 photographs of PvP's production of The Rake's Progress, Munich, 1956. Also various colour slides including Dame Margot Fonteyn and Garth Welch rehearsing for Swan Lake in Canberra

Biography/History Dame Peggy van Praagh, 1910-1990. Dancer with the Ballet Rambert from 1933 to 1938, Principal dancer of the London Ballet 1938-1940. Soloist with Sadler's Wells Ballet 1941-1946, Ballet Mistress and Asst. Director with the Sadler's Wells Ballet, 1946-1956. In 1960 she was invited to Australia as Artistic Director of the Borovansky Ballet. In 1962 became the founding Artistic Director of the Australian Ballet, holding the position until 1974, and temporarily returning in 1978-79. 
Notes

Title from accession record.

Condition: Good.

Selected images individually catalogued and digitised.

Related Material Papers of Dame Peggy van Praagh ; Located at; National Library of Australia Manuscript collection MS 7223.  Letters of Dame Peggy van Praagh ; Located at; National Library of Australia Manuscript collection MS 10049. 
Provenance Photographs donated by Shirley McKechnie as part of the Keep Dancing Project 
Subjects Van Praagh family - Portraits.  |  Van Praagh, Peggy, - Dame, - 1910-1990 - Portraits.  |  Australian Ballet - Employees - Portraits.  |  Dance teachers - Australia - Portraits.  |  Ballet dancers - Portraits.
Occupation Ballet dancers.
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