The Ballets

 

Le Beau Danube: four images. Photos by Hugh P. Hall. Hugh P. Hall collection of photographs, 1938–1940, National Library of Australia, Canberra.

Guys Carriages  

Constantin Guys: a typical example of his work: A carriage in London, 1848–56. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Massine Hussar  IMG 1265 b danube 1952  IMG 1269 hussar b danube

Massine in Le Beau Danube, 1933. Private collection; Poul Gnatt (Borovansky Ballet artist), Le Beau Danube, 1952. Edward Pask collection; Preserved Hussar costume. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Photos by Hugh P. Hall. Hugh P. Hall collection of photographs, 1938–1940, National Library of Australia, Canberra.

 

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Graduation Ball, The Australian Ballet, 1990, with Fiona Tonkin as Pigtails. Photo by Don McMurdo. Don McMurdo personal archive collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.

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...