Ballet companies - Russia

Date: 1971

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

Reference: Eph-D-CABOT-Dance-1971-01

Description: Schedule and booking form, with many photographs of the ballet compy in performance. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet 445 x 435 mm.

Date: 1960s

From: Wassiliewa, Galina (estate) :Photographs relating to life and ballet career of Galina Wassiliewa in Lithuania and Wellington.

By: Wassiliew, Wassili, 1916-1983

Reference: PA1-o-941

Description: Photographs of the Leningrad Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet on its 1962 tour, and a Mexican dance company performing in Wellington. Photographed by Wassili Wassiliew in the 1960s. According to one of Galina Wassiliewa's ex students, Keith McEwing, Wassili Wassiliew knew the Edgleys of the Australian theatre entrepreneur partnership, Edgley and Dawe who toured these companies through Australia and New Zealand. As a result he was able to get into the theatre wings and photograph the dancers in rehersal and during performances. Some of his photographs of the Bolshoi's 1962 performances in Wellington were published in "Ballet Today" a British based magazine (May/June 1963, pp 35-36). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1973

By: Hotere, Ralph, 1931-2013

Reference: Eph-C-DANCE-1975

Description: Includes posters for: 40 stars of the Russian Classical Ballet, artistic director Igor Moiseyev; company director Irena Tikhominova. Selected artists from the Bolshoi, Kirov and Leningrad-Maly ballet companies. New Zealand tour - Auckland, His Majesty's Theatre, 16-28 June 1975; Wellington, Grand Opera House 30 June - 5 July 1975. Anatomy of a dance; sound, movement, theatre. Dance, John Casserley, Char Hummel, Kuat Suhadji; music, Jack Body and Barry Mangin; poetry Bill Manhire; design Ralph Hotere. [Memorial Theatre VUW Wellington, 16-19 September 1975]. Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters and programmes. Physical Description: Photolithographs, 420 x 310 mm (approx)

Date: 1957

By: Charles & Read Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-CINEMA-1957-01

Description: Poster promoting a British film shows a male dancer holding a ballerina aloft, while another ballerina is posed on the floor beside him. In the background is a group of Cossack dancers. At the far right a group of corps de ballet dance beneath a fantasy mountain scene. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on sheet 760 x 1015 mm. Provenance: Donated by Black's Point Museum, Reefton, 1990s.

Date: 1977 - 1979

Reference: Eph-B-DANCE-1977/1979

Description: Includes programmes and flyers for: 1977: The Dance Centre concert. [Evening 5 November 1977]. Programme The Dance Centre concert. [Matinee 5 November 1977]. Programme Impulse Dance Theatre. Information sheet / membership application form [1977] National School of Ballet presents "Strictly for the birds", "Harmonies", Calisthenics", "'20 to '70", and "Cinderella". State Opera House, 2-3 December 1977. Programme (2 copies) The State Balalaika Company of Russia, with star soloists from Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera; a dazzling company of 65. [NZ tour 7 March - 7 April 1977]. Booking form 1977/1978?: Limbs Dance Theatre's programme ... The Limbs dancers are Chris Jannides, Kilda Northcott, Debbie McCulloch, Julie Dinningham, Mary-Jane O'Reilly and Mark Baldwin [1977 or 1978? Deposited in the Library in January 1979] 1978: The Dance Centre concert. Narrator Ted Seymour, sound Trev Arthur, stage manager Brian Kassler, front of house Keith Whitehouse. 2pm, 26 November 1978. Programme The Dance Centre concert. Narrator Ted Seymour, sound Trev Arthur, stage manager Brian Kassler, front of house Keith Whitehouse. 8pm, 26 November 1978. Programme Enroute Dance Company (Shannon McEntee and Joan Laage). Memorial Theatre Wellington, 23-24 June 1978. Programme sheet Korobushka, the New Zealand Folkdance Company proudly present their Korobushka Festival. Maidment Theatre Auckland, 26-27 May 1978. Programme and application form The New Zealand Students' Arts Council presents Limbs Dance Company (Mary-Jane O'Reilly, Chris Jannides, Mark Baldwin, Kilda Northcote, Adrian Batchelor, Julie Dunningham, Debbie McCullough). Flyer / programme New Zealand Federation of Ballet and Dance. Choreographic seminar, Victoria University, 28 August - 2 September 1978?] Information sheet, sheet of regulations, programme Impulse Dance Theatre. Spring tour 1978. Programme (2 copies) Paco Pena's Flamenco Puro [1978]. Programme booklet (2 copies) and programme slip "The white-haired girl"; a modern Chinese revolutionary ballet. Victoria University, Union Hall, 30 September [1978]. Flyer (2 copies) 1979: National School of Ballet presents Graduation 1979. State Opera House, 30 November 1979. Programme (2 copies) New Zealand Ballet and Impulse Dance Theatre presents "Carmina Burana" plus other modern dance and classical ballet highlights. [NZ tour March - July 1979]. Programme (2 copies) The Tchaikovsky Ballet Company, with stars of the Bolshoi Ballet and Leningrad Kirov Ballet. Michael Edgley International Pty Ltd. Kevin Jacobsen Concert Promotions, Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. Australia and New Zealand tour 8 March - 28 April 1979. Promotional / programme booklet Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Booklets and flyers, sizes varying under 340 mm.

Date: 1970 - 1974

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

Reference: Eph-A-CABOT-Dance-1970/1974

Description: Includes: 1970: Berioska Dance Company. Now for the first time in New Zealand! [Itinerary 18 July - 15 August 1970]. Flier Georgian State Dance Company. 1970 tour [Itinerary 6-25 April 1970]. Pamphlet (2 copies) Georgian State Dance Company. His Majesty's Theatre, Auckland, commencing 6 April 1970. Programme New Zealand Ballet. "The young debutantes", "Judith", "Bluebird pas de deux", "Grand pas de deux", "Scottish suite", "Carmina Burana". With the Lindsay Orchestra of Wellington conducted by Juan Matteucci. Opera House Wellington, 1-3 September 1970. Programme Maya Plisetskaya with an outstanding company of dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet, and Nikolai Fadeyechev. By arrangement with Michael Edgley International and Gosconcert Moscow. Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, commencing 11 June [1970?]. Programme 1974: New Zealand Ballet with Jon Trimmer. Director Una Kai. "Pas de quatre", "Facade", "Sounds interesting", "Touch and Go", "Grand pas Hongrois", "The prisoner", "Encounters". [1974]. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: [1975]-1979

From: Annabell, Angela, 1929-2000 : Papers

Reference: 2000-199-4/16

Description: File of programmes, clippings, notes and correspondence on Russian ballet Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1969

Reference: Eph-A-DANCE-1969

Description: Includes programmes for: Edgley and Dawe, J C Williamson Theatres Ltd and the Australian Elisabethan Theatre Trust present "40 stars of the Russian Classical Ballet", under the artistic direction of Igor Moiseyev. Featuring selected artists from the Bolshoi, Kirov and Leningrad-Maly ballet companies. Grand Opera House, season commencing 30 June 1969. Programme (2 copies) and promotional pamphlet (2 copies). Promotional pamphlet shows season dates for Auckland (16-28 June) and Wellington (30 June - 5 July) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying under 250 mm.