She also had influential support from Peter Bellew, "a respected art critic. She had two particular patrons: the impresario and theatre owner Edward Tait, and the newspaper and magazine publisher, Warwick Oswald Fairfax, who were both "entranced" by Kirsova. Kirsova had married the Danish Vice-Consul in Australia, which, combined with her famous name, elevated her to a leading position in Sydney society. Backers and supporters įunds for opening the ballet company were easy to find.
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to be the founder of an Australian ballet tradition of our own." In 1941, within a year of starting her school, she realised she had enough talent within the ranks of her pupils and available from elsewhere in Australia to start the country's first professional ballet company.
One commentator, interviewing her a few days after she opened the school, reported that "Kirsova is convinced that in the not too distant future Australia will have its own ballet dancers, choreographers, decor designers, in fact an Australian ballet company." He continued: "For this she will work. Kirsova had long held an ambition to open her own company, using Australian dancers and Australian musicians, composers, designers and artists. With foreign ballet companies unable to visit during World War II, the way was clear for Australian ballet troupes to establish a new era of ballet in the country. Kirsova brought to a younger generation of talented Australian dancers the traditions of Russian ballet and the influences of the great European teachers, like Michel Fokine, Olga Preobrajenska, Lyubov Yegorova, Léonide Massine, George Balanchine, and Bronislava Nijinska. Known as the Hélène Kirsova School of Russian Ballet in the Diaghilev Tradition, it attracted many pupils, including several who aspired to be professionals. She remained in Australia after her marriage in 1938 and in 1940 opened a ballet school in Sydney. Hélène Kirsova, an acclaimed Danish prima ballerina with the post- Sergei Diaghilev Ballets Russes, toured Australia and New Zealand in its first Australasian tour in 19. Its influence on Australian ballet was significant. It closed in 1945 having been the pioneer of a genuine Australian ballet tradition. Struggling under wartime restrictions, unable to tour abroad, and later suffering creative differences with the country's main theatre owners, the company's prominence was brief. The company also supported Australian composers, musicians, artists and designers in producing new ballets choreographed by Kirsova.
These local performers soon led the troupe and appeared in several seasons in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane. Initially the leading performers were dancers who had stayed in Australia following the 1938/1939 tour of the Covent Garden Russian Ballet, but they were supported by talented young Australian dancers promoted from Kirsova's ballet school in Sydney. It was founded by prima ballerina Hélène Kirsova in 1941. The Kirsova Ballet was the first professional Australian ballet company. Hélène Kirsova School of Russian Ballet in the Diaghilev Tradition OL7031546W Page_number_confidence 73.61 Pages 74 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.16 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211103070300 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 318 Scandate 20211030002415 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0091187303 Tts_version 4.Hélène Kirsova (Ellen Elisabeth Kirsten Wittrup Fischer née Hansèn) Urn:oclc:record:1285643075 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier loudonsainthill0000sain Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3sw0c909 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0091187303 Lccn 74154777 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-rc1-12-g88b4 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.7529 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000060 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 01:06:39 Associated-names Robertson, Bryan Boxid IA40278111 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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