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Dancer from the First Australian Ballet in pose from Diaghilev's The Blue God (Le Bleu Dieu), July 1938

By
Ivan Wilfrid Ive
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ON 388/Box 033/Item 049]
(Mitchell Library)

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PIX 30 July 1938 'Dances that tell of gods and men', via Trove

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Ive, Ivan Wilfrid

Press photographer with PIX and other magazines.

State Library of New South Wales

Lightfoot, Louise

A trained architect who became a dancer and teacher, Louise Lightfoot made major contributions to two forms of dance, classical ballet and Indian dance. She founded the First Australian Ballet, and later was an advocate, teacher and entrepreneur of Indian dance forms.

Indians

First Australian Ballet

Amateur ballet company established in 1931 by Louise Lightfoot and Mischa Burlakov. It disbanded in the 1950s.

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