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Dame Ninette de Valois has devoted her life to the theatre. This collaboration with Kathrine Sorley Walker shows how de Valois has always recognised the interlocking nature of the performing arts, and how her work comes together as dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and writer.

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Drawn partly from the scattered remnants of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and partly from extraordinary new talent, Colonel W. de Basil's company of dancers kept alive the heritage of the Russian ballet for a period spanning virtually twenty years. De Basil's Ballets Russes, under various titles, and initially founded in association with René Blum, director of ballet at Monte Carlo, not only preserved the greatest of the Diaghilev ballets but mou...

Sir Robert Helpmann was a consummate man of the theatre, equally proficient as dancer or actor, in comedy or tragedy, and as choreographer or director. In this book, Kathrine Sorley Walker surveys a career which spanned more than five decades in multiple disciplines, surely a unique achievement in the annals of theatre. An international career that embraced every aspect of the performing arts established Helpmann as a key figure in 20th centur...