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TAGGED: Bungan Beach
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Ballet Russes in Australia: Tamara Toumanova (c.1939)

Filmed in slow motion, Tamara Toumanova, wearing a green and black swimsuit, performs a series of leaps and poses on the sand at Bungan Beach. Summary by Poppy de Souza.

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Ballet Russes: Solo dance on Bungan Beach (c.1936)

A solo dancer performs a dramatic contemporary dance routine on the shoreline of Bungan Beach. His routine contains arm gestures and facial expressions as well as leaps and lunges.

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Ballet Russes in Australia: Dancing on the beach (c.1939)

Filmed in slow motion, two women and a man (Paul Petroff) make human formations on the shoreline of the beach. A woman dressed in black swimwear runs towards Petroff and leaps into his arms.

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Ballet Russes in Australia: Performing on the beach (c.1939)

This unique and candid home movie footage of members of the Ballets Russes company was taken at Sydney’s Bungan Beach in the late 1930s.