Bibliography

  • Ballets Russes in Australia Symposium, Adelaide, 2008
  • Ballets Russes programs, J.C. Williamson Ltd., 1939–1940
  • Robert Bell, Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume, National Gallery Australia, 2010
  • Alexandre Benois, Reminiscences of the Russian Ballet, Putnam, 1945
  • Alan Brissenden & Keith Glennon, Australia Dances: creating Australian dance, 1945-1965, Wakefield Press, 2010
  • Mark Carroll (ed), Ballets Russes in Australia and Beyond, Wakefield Press, 2011
  • Mary Clarke & David Vaughan (eds), Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet, Pitman Publishing, 1977
  • Francis Gadan & Robert Moilland (eds), Dictionary of Modern Ballet, Methuen & Company, 1959
  • Hugh P. Hall, Ballet in Australia from Pavlova to Rambert, Georgian House, 1948
  • Robert Lawrence, Victor Book of Ballets and Ballet Music, Simon Schuster, 1950
  • Valerie Lawson, Dancing under the Southern Skies: a history of ballet in Australia, Australian Scholarly, 2019
  • Norman Macgeorge, Borovansky Ballet in Australia and New Zealand, Cheshire Pty. Ltd., 1946
  • Edward H. Pask, Ballet in Australia: the second act, Oxford University Press, 1982
  • Jane Pritchard (ed), Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929, Victoria & Albert, 2010
  • Frank Salter, Borovansky: the man who made Australian Ballet, Wildcat Press, 1980
  • Maurice Seymour, Ballet 101 Photographs (proof pages), 1948
  • Frank Van Straten, National Treasure: the story of Gertrude Johnson and the National Theatre, Victoria Press, 1994
  • Tribute to Edouard Borovansky program, The Australian Ballet, 1980

Programs

The National Library of Australia, Canberra, has digitized a collection of 212 theatre programs and ephemera relating to the the three tours by the Ballets Russes to Australia, 1936-1940, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-61018475

The company's first tour, 1936-1937, was called Colonel W. de Basil's Monte Carlo Russian Ballet or The Monte Carlo Russian Ballet. The second company in 1938-1939 was called the Covent Garden Russian Ballet. And the third, 1939-1940, was known variously as the Colonel W. de Basil's Covent Garden Ballet, Colonel W. de Basil's Ballet Company and The Original Ballet Russe.

 

Additional Info

  • Picture References

    Scene from Le Beau Danube, Geoffrey Ingram archive of Australian ballet, PIC P348/BR/179 LOC Album 810/6 National Library of Australia, Canberra Hugh P. Hall collection of photographs, 1938–1940, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-144725486 Geoffrey Ingram archive of Australian ballet,...
  • Additional sources

    Bibliography Ballets Russes in Australia Symposium, Adelaide, 2008 Ballets Russes programs, J.C. Williamson Ltd., 1939–1940 Robert Bell, Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume, National Gallery Australia, 2010 Alexandre Benois, Reminiscences of the Russian Ballet, Putnam, 1945 Alan Brissenden & Keith...
  • Filmography

    Filmography ‘Ballet Russes’, 2005 (director: Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine)https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/balletsrusses ‘Boro’s Ballet—the making of Australian Ballet’ Screensound Australia, 2001 (director: Sally Jackson, Michelle...