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.