Photographs

Containers:

Box 15

Component identifier:

File 83

Content Summary:

Dancers include Anna Pavlova (Butterfly), Edouard Borovansky, Robert Helpmann, Kathy Gorham, Karl Welander, Erik Bruhn (Don Quixote), Marilyn Jones, Garth Welch, Laurel Martyn and Geoffrey Ingram (Swan Lake and Sentimental Bloke), Leonide Massine, Martin Rubinstein, Edna Busse, Tatiana Stepanova, Olga Morosova, Nina Verchinina and Barbara Chambers. There are photographs of Colonel W. de Basil and Peggy van Praagh, William Dargie sketching the Borovansky corps, the Australian Ballet's first international performance in Baalbeck, Lebanon, the Borovansky company leaving Essendon, 1951, and the Australian Ballet's first company photograph, 1962.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were purchased from Geoffrey Ingram by the National Library in several instalments between 1987 and 1993. Two further additions were donated by Ingram in 1997 and 1998.

Names:

Geoffrey Ingram

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