The Galina Wassiliewa School of Russian Classical Ballet, productions and performances

Publicity photographs of stage settings, individual dancers, and the casts of ballets produced by Gallina Wassiliewa.

The great days of the Galina Wassiliewa School of Russian Classical Ballet were the 1950s and 1960s. As well as teaching Galina and Wassili were able to stage full ballet productions in Wellington theatres such as the Opera House. Galina's own students supplied the cast of dancers, and Wassili organised the orchestra which provided the music. In the late 1950s she also toured ballets to Christchurch, Masterton, Palmerston North, and Wanganui. She produced ballets for the Wellington and Lower Hutt Festivals in 1958 and 1959. 1959 included performances of Les Sulphides, Peter and the Wolf, and Strauss waltzes at the Botanic Garden sound shell and Percy's Reserve, Lower Hutt. Thousands turned out to see the Percy's Reserve performances.

Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s).