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Designing for Nina Verchinina's choreographic vivacity: a new light on Loudon Sainthill's art

Montana, Andrew

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Nina Verchinina (1910-1995) was a striking, classically trained dancer whose beauty and choreographic work in the modern idiom were direct sources of inspiration for Loudon Sainthill's art. Arriving in Sydney in December 1939, along with Sainthill she had travelled aboard the Orcades from England with the Original Ballet Russe, the third Ballets Russes company to visit Australia, orchestrated by its savvy and creative director Colonel Wassily de Basil. As a young Australian artist whose lover...[Show more]

CollectionsANU Research Publications
Date published: 2011
Type: Journal article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/57629
Source: Brolga: an Australian journal about dance

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