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TAGGED: Russian Ballet
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Schéhérazade by Ballet Russes
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Ballet Russes: Solo dancer on grassy slope (c.1936)

A dancer wearing a beret and holding a makeshift cane draws a pipe from his pocket and puts it in his mouth. A wistful dance routine incorporating the props follows.

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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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Ballets Russes, Hélène Kirsova’s Wedding (1938)

In a series of moving portraits, Ewan Murray-Will films Hélène Kirsova with friends and family at her wedding reception.

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Ballets Russes: Petrouchka: Carnaval: Aurora’s Wedding (c.1936)

Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe – shown here on tour in Australia during 1936-37 – revolutionised ballet by giving equal emphasis to dance, music, drama and design.

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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

Amateur filmmaker Ewan Murray-Will captured unique and candid images of one of the world’s greatest dance companies. 

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Monte Carlo Russian Ballet: Thamar (c.1936)

In this brief colour sequence from the ballet Thamar, Thamar seduces a man whom she is going to lure to her castle before killing him.

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Monte Carlo Russian Ballet: Les Presages (c.1936)

In the final scenes from Léonide Massine’s symphonic ballet Les Presages, dancers from the Ballets Russes du Monte Carlo move frenetically across the stage, performing a series of strange

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Monte Carlo Russian Ballet: Hélène Kirsova on stage (c.1936)

Hélène Kirsova performs in this excerpt from the one-act ballet, Le Beau Danube. Ewan Murray-Will films the action from an elevated position left of the stage.