Royal New Zealand Ballet :Photographs

Date
1950s-2000
By
Royal New Zealand Ballet
Reference
PA-Group-00247
Description

Photographs, production files, venue files, performer files, minutes, scrapbooks kept by supporters and other material including posters and programmes. Mainly post 1960s, as much earlier material was evidently destroyed by a fire.

Source of title - Title supplied by Library

Quantity: 8 container(s) photo files, contact sheets etc. 2 container(s) Photograph albums.

Provenance: Gifted to RNZB by Arthur Turnbull

Transfers: Collection as a whole was received by Photographic Archive; material transferred to other sections from there - To Manuscripts & Archives - 4 boxes and 1 folio box containing production files, venue files, performer files, minutes, scrapbooks kept by supporters and other material. - To Ephemera Collection - 10 containers of posters, 7 containers of programmes. Material housed at Eph-E-DANCE-RNZB-2000s - To Book Collections - 2 annual reports.

Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2004. Reference number changed from PAColl-8050 to PA-Group-00247 in 2008.

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Format
8 container(s) photo files, contact sheets etc, 2 container(s) Photograph albums, Photographs
There are 3 sub-groups.
There are 67 items in total.
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There are 67 items in this group.
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Photographs of the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company's 1988 performances

Date: 1988

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet :Photographs

By: O'Connor, Michael, active 1983; Stewart, Martin, active 1978-1990s

Reference: PAColl-8050-35

Description: Company portraits for Coppelia and Romeo and Juliet programmes, and photographs of the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company's 1988 performances of Do Wack a Do, The Firebird, The Ragtime Dance Company, and Sleeping Beauty. Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s). 18 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 1 colour original photographic print(s).

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Photographs of the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company at Government House and performing ...

Date: 1989

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet :Photographs

By: Stewart, Martin, active 1978-1990s

Reference: PAColl-8050-36

Description: Group portraits of the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company at Government House prior to leaving for Europe and photographs of the 1989 production of A Servant of Two Masters. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s).

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Photograph of a New Zealand Ballet production

Date: [ca 1961]

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8294

Description: Photograph of a New Zealand Ballet Company production, possibly Do-Wack-a-Do, taken ca 1960s by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 17 x 11.5 cm Provenance: Gifted to RNZB by Arthur Turnbull Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-8192-1 : Arthur Turnbull - Correspondence.

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Photographs of New Zealand Ballet Company dancers and performances

Date: 1975-1976

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet :Photographs

By: Ashton, John Hammond, 1917-2010; Don & Beatrice Peat Studio

Reference: PAColl-8050-11

Description: Photographs of the New Zealand Ballet Company performances Inscape (1975), Pineapple Poll (1975), Serenade (1975), Welcome Stranger (1975), Aurora Pas de Deux (1976) from Sleeping Beauty, Carmen (1976), Don Quixote (1976), Giselle (1976), Suite Sixteen (1976), Swan Lake, Act II (1976), and Les Sylphides (1976). Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s).

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Photographs of the New Zealand Ballet Company's performances 1981-1982

Date: 1981-1982

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8050-43

Description: Photographs of the New Zealand Ballet Company's productions of Witchboy (1981), The Ragtime Dance Company (1981), Giselle (1981-1982), and the Stravinsky Celebration productions Orpheus and The Firebird (1982). Accompanying material - Business card for Donna Waldman of Thermalair, New Zealand's first weekly tourist newspaper, and telephone number and address for Stuart Glenfield of the Tourist Times, Auckland Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Photograph album of the New Zealand Ballet Company's 25th anniversary performance of Th...

Date: 1978

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1076

Description: Photograph album of the New Zealand Ballet Company's 25th anniversary performance of 'The Sleeping Beauty', in 1978 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Plastic covered ring binder 32 x 26 cm

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Photographs of the New Zealand Ballet Company's 1967 and 1968 performances

Date: 1967-1968

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet :Photographs

By: Ashton, John Hammond, 1917-2010

Reference: PAColl-8050-07

Description: Photographs of the New Zealand Ballet Company's performances of Petrouchka (1967), Symphonie Troisieme (1967), A Time for Offenbach (1967-1968), Valse Eccentrique (1967), Coppelia (1968), and Repercussion (1968). Includes Company photographs for the year 1968. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 15 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 6 colour original photographic print(s).

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Photographs of the New Zealand Ballet Company performance of Coppelia

Date: 1978

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet :Photographs

By: Ashton, John Hammond, 1917-2010; Carlin, Jocelyn, 1955-2017

Reference: PAColl-8050-13

Description: Photographs of the New Zealand Ballet Company's 1978 performance of Coppelia. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 11 colour original photographic print(s).

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Photographs of Royal New Zealand Ballet Company's 1987 performances

Date: 1987

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet :Photographs

By: Stewart, Martin, active 1978-1990s

Reference: PAColl-8050-33

Description: Photographs of the Royal New Zealand's Ballet Company's 1987 performances of Bacchus and Ariadne, Hymn to the Sun (or Hymne au Soleil), Medusa, and Neither From Nor Towards (part of New Moves '87). Also includes Company portraits taken for Firebird and Nutcracker programmes; visiting dancers Elisabeth Platel and Laurent Hilaire; and a sponsorship van. Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s). 13 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 4 colour original photographic print(s).

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Photographs of New Zealand Ballet Company's 1967 performances

Date: 1967

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet :Photographs

By: Ashton, John Hammond, 1917-2010

Reference: PAColl-8050-06

Description: Photographs of New Zealand Ballet Company's performances of Charade, Peter and the Wolf, The Judgement of Paris, Les Rendezvous, and Pas des Sylphes. Includes photographs of members of the Company and of the storeroom fire. Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s). 29 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 1 colour original photographic print(s).