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National Library of Australia News, April 2006
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In 1939, Russian dancer Kira Bousloff made a dramatic decision to stay in Australia at the end of a tour by the Covent Garden Russian Ballet. 'Little Perth, at the end of the world’ as she called it would eventually become her home. There she founded the West Australian Ballet, one of Australia’s earliest state-based ballet companies and boldly created a dance environment that continues to flourish today. See story.

April 2006 Volume XVI Number 7

‘Madame Ballet’
  Michelle Potter reveals how Russian dancer Kira Bousloff boldly created an environment for dance to flourish in Western Australia
The Camera Art of Geoffrey Powell
  Jennifer Lovell uncovers the career of Geoffrey Powell, a photographer who had a knack for being where the action was
Roll Up to the Circus
  Gillian Arrighi searches for remnants of the FitzGerald Brothers’ Circus, Australia’s largest and most dazzling producer of popular culture in the late 19th century
Food for Thought
  Russell Doust examines restaurant menus in the National Library’s collection of ephemera
An Unassuming Radical

Christobel Mattingley discusses the powerful influence of author Nene Gare’s work
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