Ballets Russes: ‘We’re going to Australia’

Talk given at the National Gallery of Australia in conjunction with the exhibition Ballets Russes: the art of costume, 12 March 2011

Modified text and PowerPoint slides at this link

Some audio clips as used in the live talk and referred to in the text:

• Irina Baronova on coming to Australia in 1938;
• Kira Bousloff on farewelling the company in 1939.

The full audio interviews with Baronova and Bousloff are available online from the National Library of Australia:

• Baronova;
• Bousloff.

Michelle Potter, 1 January