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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 55 | February 2002
Boros Ballet Wins Award
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Boros Ballet: The making of an Australian ballet 19391961, the second joint ScreenSound/National Library video created as a by-product of the archival Keep Dancing! project was released in May 2001. Co-researched, scripted and produced by Dr Michelle Potter, Boros Ballet won an award at the Australian Dance Awards announced in November 2001. The awards recognise excellence in dance throughout Australia. Boros Ballet makes public for the first time, recently discovered footage of many of the dancers in the Borovansky Ballet in their best-known roles in some of the Ballets most fashionable productions. The National Library has a large holding of material relating to Edouard Borovansky, a Czechoslovakian migrant and naturalised Australian and founder of Australias first lasting ballet company. The holdings include photographs, drawings and paintings in the Geoffrey Ingram Archive of Australian Ballet and the W.F. Stringer Collection and a number of oral history interviews with dancers and staff in the company. Additionally the Library has an almost complete run of programs for 20 years of the Ballets seasons. Left: Boros Ballet: The
Making of an Australian Ballet, 19391961 Below: Borovansky Ballet in
Capriccio Italien c.1946 |
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