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Helpmann Sir Robert. 1909--86, Australian ballet dancer and choreographer: his ballets include Miracle in the Gorbals (1944), Display (1965), and Yugen (1965) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Danced by the then Sadler's Wells Ballet, it was based without much basis on Edmund Spenser's 16th-century epic poem, "The Faerie Queene," with the leading roles danced, as they usually were then, by Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann. Male British dancers were personified chiefly by Helpmann, a virtuoso performer with a strong tendency for exaggeration, i. The Wildean or Bunthorne style is, consciously or obliviously, an important part of the cultural wardrobe of expatriates of a cultural type, (one opposite to that of Earl's Court Ockers), exemplars of which include Charles Conder, Alistair Kershaw, Robert Helpmann, Richard Neville (aided remarkably by his similar facial appearance), Barry Humphries and, in his days of cravatted elitism and long hair, Robert Hughes. |
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