Guide to the Papers of Laurel Martyn
MS 9711
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Martin, Laurel
- Title
- Papers of Laurel Martyn
- Date Range
- 1901-1988
- Collection Number
- MS 9711
- Extent
- 4.2 metres (1 large folio box + 7 medium folio boxes + 1 ms box + 1 ms carton + 16 sound/av carriers)
- Language of Materials
-
English
English - Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection mainly comprises records relating to Martyn's directorship of the Ballet Guild (renamed the Victorian Ballet Company in 1963 and Ballet Victoria in 1967). The records include financial records, grant submissions, curriculum materials, Ballet Guild board and committee meeting records and medial releases. The papers also include photographs of cast members and performances of Ballet Guild/Ballet Victoria productions, audio tapes of recordings which accompanied performances and dance classes, and printed and manuscript music. There are also photographs relating to Martyn's dancing career with the Vic-Wells Ballet and Borovansky Ballet.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn307525).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Laurel Martyn, National Library of Australia, MS 9711, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated to the Library by Laurel Martyn in 2002.
Related Materials
An oral history interview by Mark Gordon with Laurel Martyn is held in the Oral History Collection at ORAL TRC 2444.
Arrangement
The papers have been arranged by Library staff into four series based on physical form.
Biographical Note
Born in 1916 in Toowoomba, Queensland, Laurel Gill received her early dance training with Kathleen Hamilton in Toowoomba and Marjorie Hollinshed in Brisbane. In 1933 Gill left Australia for further training. In England she studied with Phyllis Bedells and in 1934 won a choreographic scholarship from the Association of Operatic Dancing (later the Royal Academy of Dancing) with her first composition Exile. She passed all her Royal Academy exams to Solo Seal and in 1935 won the Adeline Genee gold medal, the second Australian to do so in the then short life of the competition. In 1935 Gill also arranged the dances for a production of The Waltz King and in the same year received second prize in a choreographic competition, the Pavlova Casket, for her ballet Sigrid.
Gill joined the Vic-Wells Ballet (later Sadler's Wells Ballet) in 1936. She was the first Australian woman to be accepted into the company and by 1938 was a soloist. While in England she changed her name from Gill to Martyn, also a family name. She danced in many of Frederick Ashton's early ballets including Horoscope, Nocturne and Le Baiser de la fee and also spent time in Paris studying with the Russian emigré ballerinas Lubov Egorova and Mathilde Kchessinska.
Martyn came back to Australia in 1938 following the death of her father. On her return she took up a position in Melbourne with well-known teacher Jennie Brenan. While teaching for Brenan she worked as both choreographer and dancing lead in Hiawatha, a pageant produced by T. E. Fairbairn, which opened in Melbourne's Exhibition Building on 21 October 1939. The ballet cast of 80 was led by Martyn, Serge Bousloff and Lawrence Rentoul. While performing in Hiawatha Martyn was noticed by Edouard Borovansky who persuaded her to join his fledgling Borovansky Ballet, which she did in 1940 following a brief return to Queensland. Martyn, along with Edna Busse and fellow-Queenslander Dorothy Stevenson, was Borovansky's leading artist in the early Borovansky days and she danced and created leading roles with Borovansky until 1945. Created roles for the Borovansky Ballet included the Spirit of the River in Borovansky's meditation on his Czech homeland, Vltava. While with Borovansky she also restaged Sigrid and reworked what is probably her best known work, En Saga, which premiered for the Borovansky Ballet in 1941.
Martyn left the Borovansky Ballet after her marriage to Lloyd Lawton in 1945. In 1946, at the request of the Melbourne Ballet Club, Martyn took on the directorship of Ballet Guild, as the Melbourne Ballet Club had renamed itself. She was its director for an extended period. Ballet Guild became Victorian Ballet Company in 1963 and Ballet Victoria in 1967. Martyn was at the helm until 1973. She also established a school associated with Ballet Guild and students from the school augmented professional dancers in Ballet Guild productions. Martyn created many original works for Ballet Guild and Ballet Victoria productions and collaborated with Australian composers, including Dorian Le Gallienne, Margaret Sutherland, John Tallis, Esther Rofe, and Verdon Williams, and Australian designers, including Alan McCulloch, Len Annois, and John Sumner. Some of her works also had specifically Australian themes, notably The Sentimental Bloke (1952) and Mathinna (1954). Other significant works that Martyn made in this period included L'Amour enchantée (1950), a full-length Sylvia (1962), Voyageur (1956) and Eve of St Agnes (1966).
Martyn also developed a specific method for teaching dance especially to children, the principles of which she published in Let them Dance (1985). She also was instrumental in forming the Young Dancers' Theatre, for which she choreographed several works in the 1980s, and the Classical Dance Teachers Australia Inc, which provided in-service training for dance teachers. She was also on the steering committee for the Australian Institute of Classical Dance in the early years of its development. Martyn guested with the Australian Ballet as Mar in The Sentimental Bloke in 1985, as the Mother of James in La Sylphide also in 1985, as Berthe, Giselle's mother, in Giselle in 1986 and as Miss Maud in The Competition (Le Concours) in 1989. In 1991 she reproduced Michel Fokine's Le Carnaval for the flagship company.
References: Australia dancing website http://www.australiadancing.org/subjects/42.html. A list of Martyn's choreography from 1935-1991 is in Brolga, 4 (June 1996), pp. 22-23. This issue of Brolga, a special issue in honour of Martyn's eightieth birthday, contains a number of articles about Martyn's work.
Item Descriptions
Class MS 9711. Original Consignment
Series 1. Photographs and drawings, 1931-1976
Photographs of Martyn as a student in Brisbane and London and dancing with the Vic-Wells Ballet and the Borovansky Ballet. There are also photographs of productions and cast members of the Ballet Guild, Victorian Ballet Company and Ballet Victoria. Artworks include a sketch of Martyn by John Rogers and photographs of cartoons by Alexandre Benois. The photographs and drawings have been arranged in chronological order.
Portrait (full length) of Laurel Martyn in a school recital as student of Marjorie Hollinshed and Phyllis Danaher, Brisbane, 1931 (Item 1) - Folio-Box 1
Portrait (full length) of Laurel Martyn, Phyllis Bedells School of Dance Recital, London, 1934 (Item 3) - Folio-Box 1
Handwritten verso: 'With my love and for a rather belated Xmas, 1934, Pops. This is the "advanced member"! (of the RAD)'. Photography: signed - Savance (?), London
Portrait (full length) of Laurel Martyn in Exile, Association of Operatic Dancing of Great Britain (Royal Academy of Dance) Choreographic Scholarship Winner, London, 1934 (Item 4) - Folio-Box 1
Handwritten verso: 'With all my love from Pops. This is a typical picture of "Exile" – my first composition!'. Photography: signed - Savance (?), London
Portrait (full length) of Laurel Martyn for portfolio whilst student of Phyllis Bedells, London [1], ca. 1935 (Item 5) - Folio-Box 1
Portrait (full length) of Laurel Martyn for portfolio whilst student of Phyllis Bedells, London [2], ca. 1935 (Item 6) - Folio-Box 1
Portrait (full length) of Laurel Martyn for portfolio whilst student of Phyllis Bedells, London [3], ca. 1935 (Item 7) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed, stamped below and verso - Audrey & Leslie Elstob, Kensington W8
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Laurel Martyn for portfolio whilst student of Phyllis Bedells, London, ca. 1935 (Item 8) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed, stamped below - Audrey & Leslie Elstob, Kensington
Portrait (full length) of Laurel Martyn as the Little Dancer from Spain, demi-character dance for Adeline Genee Gold Medal, 1935 (Item 9) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed, stamped verso - Kay Vaughan, Dover St. W1
Vic-Wells Ballet production of A Wedding Bouquet 1937, with Mary Honer and Robert Helpmann as the bride and groom, and cast including Michael Somes, Jill Gregory, Laurel Martyn, 1937 (Item 10) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Merlyn Severn
Vic-Wells Ballet production of Checkmate 1937, with Robert Helpmann as the Red King, June Brae as the Black Queen, Pamela May as the Red Queen, Laurel Martyn as a Red Pawn, ca. 1937 (Item 11) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Merlyn Severn
Portrait (head) of Laurel Martyn as Remorse in Fantasy on Grieg's Concerto, Borovansky Australian Ballet, 1941 (Item 14) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Bristow Mawley Photographers, Wellington
Portrait (head and torso) of Laurel Martyn as the Blue Bird, Borovansky Australian Ballet [1], ca. 1942 (Item 15) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Andri Evinson, Melb
Portrait (head and torso) of Laurel Martyn as the Blue Bird, Borovansky Australian Ballet [2], ca. 1942 (Item 16) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Andri Evinson, Melb
Portrait (full length) of Laurel Martyn as the Blue Bird, Borovansky Australian Ballet [1], ca. 1942 (Item 17) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Andri Evinson, Melb
Portrait (full length) of Laurel Martyn as the Blue Bird, Borovansky Australian Ballet [2], ca. 1942 (Item 18) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Andri Evinson, Melb
Portrait (full length) of Laurel Martyn as the Blue Bird, Borovansky Australian Ballet [3], ca. 1942 (Item 19) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Andri Evinson, Melb
Portrait (head and arms)of Laurel Martyn as Sigrid, Borovansky Australian Ballet [1], ca. 1942 (Item 20) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Andri Evinson, Melb
Portrait (head and arms) of Laurel Martyn as Sigrid, Borovansky Australian Ballet [2], ca. 1942 (Item 21) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Andri Evinson, Melb
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Laurel Martyn, ca. 1942 (Item 22) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Athol Shmith, Melbourne
Laurel Martyn and Serge Bousloff in Capriccio Italien, Borovansky Australian Ballet, 1943 (Item 23) - Folio-Box 1
Laurel Martyn and Edouard Borovansky in Capriccio Italien, Borovansky Australian Ballet, 1943 (Item 24) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - J. Stewart
Laurel Martyn in Les Sylphides, Borovansky Australian Ballet, 1944 (Item 25) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped below and verso - Hugh P Hall, Elsternwick
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Laurel Martyn as Giselle, Borovansky Australian Ballet, 1944 (Item 26) - Folio-Box 1
Laurel Martyn (Giselle) with Mara North in Giselle, Borovansky Australian Ballet, 1944 (Item 27) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - J. Stewart
Borovansky Australian Ballet production of Giselle 1944, with Laurel Martyn as the Queen of the Wilis, 1944 (Item 28) - Folio-Box 1
Laurel Martyn and Martin Rubinstein in Le Spectre de la Rose, Borovansky Australian Ballet, 1944 (Item 29) - Folio-Box 1
Portrait (full length) of Laurel Martyn as Odette in Swan Lake Act 2, Borovansky Australian Ballet, 1944 (Item 30) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Ronald Esler, Melb
Portrait (head and torso) of Laurel Martyn as Odette in Swan Lake Act 2, Borovansky Australian Ballet [1], 1944 (Item 31) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Ronald Esler, Melb
Portrait (head and torso) of Laurel Martyn as Odette in Swan Lake Act 2, Borovansky Australian Ballet [2], 1944 (Item 32) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Ronald Esler, Melb
Portrait (head and torso) of Laurel Martyn as Odette in Swan Lake Act 2, Borovansky Australian Ballet [3], 1944 (Item 33) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Ronald Esler, Melb
Laurel Martyn and Martin Rubinstein in Le Carnaval, Borovansky Australian Ballet, ca. 1945 (Item 34) - Folio-Box 1
Sketch of Laurel Martyn as Columbine in Le Carnaval 1946, by John Rogers, with accompanying letter, 1946 (Item 35) - Folio-Box 1
Annotated 'To Laurel Martyn before 'Carnaval''. Signed. Accompanied by short letter dated June 26
Laurel Martyn as the Princess Anemone with Noel Murray in Contes Heraldiques, Ballet Guild (Melbourne Ballet Club), 1946 (Item 36) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped below and verso - F. Hince, West Brunswick
Ballet Guild (Melbourne Ballet Club) production of Contes Heraldiques, 1946 (Item 37) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - J. Stewart, Melb
Laurel Martyn in Ballade, Ballet Guild (Melbourne Ballet Club), 1946 (Item 38) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Ronald Esler Studios
Ballet Guild production of Les Sylphides at the Palais theatre, with Laurel Martyn, Maxwell Collis, Grace McLean, Noel Murray, Joan Potter, Lesley Sexton, 1947 (Item 39) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed, stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Laurel Martyn and Maxwell Collis in Les Sylphides, Ballet Guild, 1947 (Item 40) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Ronald Esler, Melb
Portrait (full length) of Laurel Martyn as the Aggrieved Woman in En Saga, Ballet Guild, 1947 (Item 41) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Ronald Esler, Melbourne
Portrait (full length) of Laurel Martyn and Maxwell Collis in En Saga, Ballet Guild, 1947 (Item 42) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: signed - Ronald Esler, Melbourne
Portrait (full length) of three students of Ballet Guild School, Heather Macrae centre, 1949 (Item 43) - Folio-Box 1
Handwritten below: 'To Miss Martyn with fondest love from Bewnel, Elizabeth, Heather 17.12.49'. Photography: signed - Ronald Elser, Melb
Laurel Martyn and Maxwell Collis in Kaleidoscope, National Theatre Ballet, 1949 (Item 44) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped below and verso - Harry Jay, Melbourne
National Theatre Ballet production of Kaleidoscope, with Laurel Martyn, Margaret Scott, Brenda Hamlyn, Maxwell Collis, Bruce Morrow, 1949 (Item 45) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped below and verso - Harry Jay, Melbourne
Group Portrait of Ballet Guild School students including Heather Macrae, at St Patrick's Hall, ca. 1950 (Item 46) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Laurel Martyn and Maxwell Collis in Giselle, Ballet Guild [1], 1950 (Item 47) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Laurel Martyn and Maxwell Collis in Giselle, Ballet Guild [2], 1950 (Item 48) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Laurel Martyn and Maxwell Collis in Giselle, Ballet Guild [3], 1950 (Item 49) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Laurel Martyn as Swanilda, Act 1 Coppelia, Ballet Guild, ca. 1951 (Item 50) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: handwritten verso - 'photo Jean Stewart'
Laurel Martyn as Swanilda, Act 2 Coppelia, Ballet Guild, 1952 (Item 51) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Portrait (head) of Laurel Martyn by Helmut Newton, 1952 (Item 52) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Helmut Newton, Flinders Lane. Handwritten on verso: 'CAPTION: - Laurel Martyn who is to dance the role of "Doreen" in the Ballet Guild's production of the Sentimental Bloke
Laurel Martyn as Doreen in The Sentimental Bloke, Ballet Guild, 1952 (Item 53) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Laurel Martyn and Geoffrey Ingram as Doreen and the Sentimental Bloke in The Sentimental Bloke, Ballet Guild [1], 1952 (Item 54) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Laurel Martyn and Geoffrey Ingram as Doreen and the Sentimental Bloke in The Sentimental Bloke, Ballet Guild [2], 1952 (Item 55) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Ballet Guild production of The Sentimental Bloke, with Laurel Martyn, Geoffrey Ingram and other cast members, 1952 (Item 56) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Ballet Guild member as 'Butcher Bloke' in The Sentimental Bloke, 1952 (Item 57) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Ballet Guild member as a Bloke in The Sentimental Bloke, 1952 (Item 58) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Eric Brown as the Stror 'At Coot, The Sentimental Bloke, Ballet Guild, 1952 (Item 59) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Harry Leitch and Margaret Grey in The Sentimental Bloke, Ballet Guild, 1952 (Item 60) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Reginal Bartram and Laurel Martyn as the Sentimental Bloke and Doreen in The Sentimental Bloke, Ballet Guild, 1952 (Item 61) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
'Two up' in Act 1, The Sentimental Bloke, Ballet Guild, 1952 (Item 62) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Ballet Guild members as Ginger Mick and the Sentimental Bloke, The Sentimental Bloke, 1952 (Item 63) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Laurel Martyn and other cast members in The Sentimental Bloke, Ballet Guild, 1952 (Item 64) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Laurel Martyn and three other cast members in The Sentimental Bloke, Ballet Guild, 1952 (Item 65) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Ballet Guild production of The Sentimental Bloke [1], 1952 (Item 66) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Ballet Guild production of The Sentimental Bloke [2], 1952 (Item 67) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Jean Stewart, Toorak
Ballet Guild production of The Sentimental Bloke [3], 1952 (Item 68) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - The Argus, Melbourne
Ballet Guild production of The Sentimental Bloke [4], 1952 (Item 69) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - The Argus, Melbourne
Ballet Guild students including Janet Karin, Carolyn Harrison and Heather Macrae in Bourke St Melbourne café [1], ca. 1955 (Item 71) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild students including Janet Karin, Carolyn Harrison and Heather Macrae in Bourke St Melbourne café [2], ca. 1955 (Item 72) - Folio-Box 1
Dress rehearsal for Ballet Guild production of Voyageur 1957, with Janet Karin as Priscilla and Jack Manuel as Voyageur, Ann Becher and Beverley Hale on floor, 1957 (Item 73) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild School junior students, at barre, 420 Bourke St Melbourne [1], ca. 1950s (Item 74) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild School junior students, at barre, 420 Bourke St Melbourne [2], ca. 1950s (Item 75) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild School junior students in class, 420 Bourke St Melbourne, ca. 1950s (Item 76) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild School students in class, 420 Bourke St Melbourne [1], ca. 1950s (Item 77) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild School students in class, 420 Bourke St Melbourne [2], ca. 1950s (Item 78) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild School students, at barre, 420 Bourke St Melbourne [1], ca. 1950s (Item 79) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild School students, at barre, 420 Bourke St Melbourne [2], ca. 1950s (Item 80) - Folio-Box 1
Janet Karin as Priscilla with Antonio Rodrigues in Voyageur, Ballet Guild, 1960 (Item 87) - Folio-Box 1
ABC Production of The Lake (L'Amour Enchanté), with Janet Karin, Laurence Bishop, Carolyn Harrison and cast of Ballet Guild, 1962 (Item 88) - Folio-Box 1
Janet Karin with Bill Fitzwater (producer) and Paul Cleveland (designer), ABC Production of The Lake, (L'Amour Enchanté), 1962 (Item 90) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild School Performance at Palais Theatre 1962, with Valerie Grieg, Kaye Goodson, Maxwell Collis, Elizabeth Ingram, and Laurel Martyn on stage, and Michela Kirkaldie student in front row, ca. 1962 (Item 91) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild School Performance at Palais Theatre 1962, preparatory students [1], ca. 1962 (Item 92) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild School Performance at Palais Theatre 1962, preparatory students [2], ca. 1962 (Item 93) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild School Performance at Palais Theatre 1962, preparatory students [3], ca. 1962 (Item 94) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild School Performance at Palais Theatre 1962, Junior Character section, ca. 1962 (Item 95) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Guild School Performance at Palais Theatre 1962, students on pointe, ca. 1962 (Item 96) - Folio-Box 1
Carolyn Harrison and Edward Miller in Once Upon a Whim, Victorian Ballet Company (black and white photograph), 1964 (Item 97) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - W. F. Stringer, Ivanhoe
Carolyn Harrison and Edward Miller in Once Upon a Whim, Victorian Ballet Company (colour photograph), 1964 (Item 98) - Folio-Box 1
Victorian Ballet Company production of Once Upon a Whim (colour photograph), 1964 (Item 99) - Folio-Box 1
Preparatory students of Victorian Ballet Company (Ballet Victoria) School with Lynne Golding at Bouverie St Carlton premises, ca. 1965 (Item 100) - Folio-Box 1
Laurel Martyn as the nurse Angela and Edward Miller as Porphyro in Eve of St Agnes, Victorian Ballet Company [1], 1966 (Item 101) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Eric Smith, Pascoe Vale South
Laurel Martyn as the nurse Angela and Edward Miller as Porphyro in Eve of St Agnes, Victorian Ballet Company [2], 1966 (Item 102) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Eric Smith, Pascoe Vale South
Laurel Martyn as the nurse Angela and Edward Miller as Porphyro in Eve of St Agnes, Victorian Ballet Company [3], 1966 (Item 103) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Eric Smith, Pascoe Vale South
Laurel Martyn as the nurse Angela in Eve of St Agnes, Victorian Ballet Company, 1966 (Item 104) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - H. R. Fitzsimmons, Shepparton, Victoria
Performance of Coppelia at Como, Victorian Ballet Company(?), ca. 1967 (Item 105) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Eric Smith
Laurel Martyn as the Mother of Judas in There is a Spirit, Victorian Ballet Company, 1967 (Item 106) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Lloyd A. Nelson, West Footscray
Ballet Victoria School production of The Nutcracker, Palais Theatre [1], ca. 1969 (Item 107) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Victoria School production of The Nutcracker, Palais Theatre [2], ca. 1969 (Item 108) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Victoria School production of The Nutcracker, Palais Theatre [3], ca. 1969 (Item 109) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Victoria School production of The Nutcracker, Palais Theatre [4], ca. 1969 (Item 110) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Victoria students with Janina Cunovas, Bouverie St Carlton, ca. 1970 (Item 111) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Victoria students Kenneth Caldicutt (?) and Chew Seok Choon (?) dancing at Bouverie St studio[1], ca. 1970 (Item 113) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Victoria students Kenneth Caldicutt (?) and Chew Seok Choon (?) dancing at Bouverie St studio [2], ca. 1970 (Item 114) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Victoria full time students at Bouverie St, seated, ca. 1970 (Item 115) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - The Sun News-Pictorial, Melbourne
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Robyn Niblett, member of Ballet Victoria, ca. 1972 (Item 116) - Folio-Box 1
Ballet Victoria production of Macbeth, ca. 1972 (Item 117) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ballet Victoria School Diploma Students [1], 1973 (Item 118) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Herald and Weekly Times Ltd
Ballet Victoria School Diploma Students [2], 1973 (Item 119) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Herald and Weekly Times Ltd
Ballet Victoria School Diploma Students 1973 Proofsheets [1], 1973 (Item 120) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Herald and Weekly Times Ltd
Ballet Victoria School Diploma Students 1973 Proofsheets [2], 1973 (Item 121) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - Herald and Weekly Times Ltd
Gaye Sinclair, Dianne Parrington and Ross Philip in Triptych, Ballet Victoria, 1973 (Item 122) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ross Smith and Sarah Newton in Memory, Ballet Victoria [1], ca. 1974 (Item 123) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ross Philip and Sarah Newton in Memory, Ballet Victoria [2], ca. 1974 (Item 124) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ross Philip and Sarah Newton in Memory, Ballet Victoria [3], ca. 1974 (Item 125) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ross Philip and Sarah Newton in Memory, Ballet Victoria [4], ca. 1974 (Item 126) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ross Philip and Belinda Mitchell in Per Due, Ballet Victoria [1], 1974 (Item 127) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ross Philip and Belinda Mitchell in Per Due, Ballet Victoria [2], 1974 (Item 128) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ross Smith and Belinda Mitchell in Per Due, Ballet Victoria, 1974 (Item 129) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ballet Victoria production of Raymonda, 1974 (Item 130) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Laurence Bishop and Ballet Victoria cast in Raymonda, 1974 (Item 131) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Gaye Sinclair, Karl Welander and Laurence Bishop in Raymonda, Ballet Victoria, 1974 (Item 132) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Gaye Sinclair and Karl Welander in Raymonda, Ballet Victoria, 1974 (Item 133) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Gaye Sinclair in Raymonda, Ballet Victoria, 1974 (Item 134) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Karl Welander in Raymonda, Ballet Victoria, 1974 (Item 135) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ballet Victoria production of Images, with cast including Pamela Buckman and Karl Welander, 1974 (Item 136) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ballet Victoria production of Images, with cast including Pamela Buckman, Karl Welander and Gary Hill, 1974 (Item 137) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - La Trobe University Library -Reprography Ref: 450/74-1
Gary Hill and Karl Welander in Rip Tide, Ballet Victoria, 1974 (Item 138) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ballet Victoria production of Rip Tide, with cast of Gary Hill, Dianne Parrington and Karl Welander [1], 1974 (Item 139) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ballet Victoria production of Rip Tide, with cast of Gary Hill, Dianne Parrington and Karl Welander [2], 1974 (Item 140) - Folio-Box 1
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ballet Victoria production of Rip Tide, with cast of Gary Hill, Dianne Parrington and Karl Welander [3], 1974 (Item 141) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Ballet Victoria production of Rip Tide, with cast of Gary Hill, Dianne Parrington and Karl Welander [4], 1974 (Item 142) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - La Trobe University Library - Reprography Ref: 450/74-5
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Laurel Martyn, ca. 1974 (Item 143) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - William Baxter, Elwood
Photographs from Ballet Victoria Summer School, 59 small amateur photographs, 1975 (Item 144) - Folio-Box 2
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Kenneth Caldicutt, ca. 1975 (Item 145) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Peter D'Abbs, Glen Waverley
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Belinda Mitchell [1], ca. 1975 (Item 146) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender Photography
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Belinda Mitchell [2], ca. 1975 (Item 147) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender Photography
Portrait (head) of Andris Toppe, ca. 1975 (Item 148) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender Photography
Portrait (head) of Leszek Kuligowski, ca. 1975 (Item 149) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender Photography
Portrait (head) of Susan Mikkelsen [1], ca. 1975 (Item 151) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender Photography
Portrait (head) of Susan Mikkelsen [2], ca. 1975 (Item 152) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender Photography
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Lynda McNamara, ca. 1975 (Item 156) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Gaye Sinclair, ca. 1975 (Item 157) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender
Portrait of (head and shoulders) of John Burrett, ca. 1975 (Item 158) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Jane Beckett [1], ca. 1975 (Item 159) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Jane Beckett [2], ca. 1975 (Item 160) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Jane Beckett [3], ca. 1975 (Item 161) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Peter R. D'Abbs, Glen Waverley
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Laurence Bishop [1], ca. 1975 (Item 162) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Laurence Bishop [2], ca. 1975 (Item 163) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Susan Barker, ca. 1975 (Item 164) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Johanna Harper [1], ca. 1975 (Item 165) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Johanna Harper [2], ca. 1975 (Item 166) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Peter R. D'Abbs, Glen Waverley
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Lindie Flockhart, ca. 1975 (Item 167) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Peter R. D'Abbs
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Christine Babinskas, ca. 1975 (Item 168) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender Photography
Portrait (head and shoulders) of unidentified female member of Ballet Victoria (?) [1], ca. 1975 (Item 169) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender Photography
Portrait (head and shoulders) of unidentified female member of Ballet Victoria (?) [2], ca. 1975 (Item 170) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender Photography
Portrait (head and shoulders) of unidentified female member of Ballet Victoria (?) [3], ca. 1975 (Item 171) - Folio-Box 2
Portrait (head and shoulders) of unidentified male member of Ballet Victoria (?) [1], ca. 1975 (Item 172) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender Photography
Portrait (head and shoulders) of unidentified male member of Ballet Victoria (?) [2], ca. 1975 (Item 173) - Folio-Box 2
Children in audience at Ballet Victoria, Bouverie St Carlton, 1975 (Item 174) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, 8 Apr. 1975
Audience participation in Making a Ballet, Ballet Victoria, ca. 1975 (Item 175) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne
Portrait (head and shoulders) of Laurel Martyn [1], 1975 (Item 176) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: annotated verso: 'Photo by Lynn Bender, Melbourne'.
Poster of Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Barishnikov in Giselle, signed by members of Ballet Victoria, Makarova and Barishnikov, 1975 (Item 178) - Map-Folio 11
Natalia Makarova in Giselle, Act 2, Ballet Victoria, 1975 (Item 179) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Lin Bender, North Carlton
Rehearsal for Ballet Victoria production of Recollections of a Beloved Place, with Margaret Scott, Ross Smith, Belinda Mitchell, 1975 (Item 181) - Folio-Box 2
Ballet Victoria production of Les Sylphides, with cast including Pamela Buckman [1], ca. 1975 (Item 183) - Folio-Box 2
Ballet Victoria production of Les Sylphides, with cast including Pamela Buckman [2], ca. 1975 (Item 184) - Folio-Box 2
Laurel Martyn working with students of the Ballet Victoria with guest teacher Jurgen Schneider [1], 1975 (Item 185) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Laurel Martyn working with students of the Ballet Victoria with guest teacher Jurgen Schneider [2], 1975 (Item 186) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - David J. Formby, Australian Dance Project
Portrait (head) of Laurel Martyn, 1976 (Item 187) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Allan Maxwell
Portrait (full length) of Pamela Buckman, 1976 (Item 188) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Steve Lojewski Photography, North Carlton
Ballet Victoria production of Raymonda, with cast including Dianne Parrington, Gary Hill, Susanna Tyzack, Jodie Harper, Leszek Kuligowski, 1976 (Item 189) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Dianne Parrington in Raymonda, Ballet Victoria, 1976 (Item 190) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hanh, Christchurch
Dianne Parrington and Gary Hill in Raymonda, Ballet Victoria, 1976 (Item 191) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hanh, Christchurch
Susanna Tyzack and Leszek Kuligowski in Raymonda, Ballet Victoria, 1976 (Item 192) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hanh, Christchurch
Susanna Tyzack, Leszek Kuligowski and third dancer in Raymonda, Ballet Victoria, 1976 (Item 193) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hanh, Christchurch
Belinda Mitchell, Gary Hill, Dianne Parrington, and Leszek Kuligowski in Othello, Ballet Victoria [1], 1976 (Item 194) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Belinda Mitchell, Gary Hill, Dianne Parrington, and Leszek Kuligowski in Othello, Ballet Victoria [2], 1976 (Item 195) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Belinda Mitchell, Gary Hill, Dianne Parrington, and Leszek Kuligowski in Othello, Ballet Victoria [3], 1976 (Item 196) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Belinda Mitchell and Gary Hill in Othello, Ballet Victoria, 1976 (Item 197) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Dianne Parrington and Gary Hill in Othello, Ballet Victoria, 1976 (Item 198) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Ballet Victoria production of Bach-Brandenburg Three [1], 1976 (Item 199) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Ballet Victoria production of Bach-Brandenburg Three [2], 1976 (Item 200) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Ballet Victoria production of Bach-Brandenburg Three, cast including Belinda Mitchell, Alan Israel, Christine Babinskas, and Gary Hill, 1976 (Item 201) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Photographs of Alexandre Benois design cartoon for set of Petrouchka, used by Ballet Victoria production, 1976 (Item 203) - Folio-Box 2
Photographs of Alexandre Benois design cartoon for backdrop for Acts 1 and 4 of Petrouchka, used by Ballet Victoria production, 1976 (Item 204) - Folio-Box 2
Photographs of Alexandre Benois design cartoon for mask in fairground scene, Act 4 Petrouchka, used by Ballet Victoria production, 1976 (Item 205) - Folio-Box 2
Rehearsal for Ballet Victoria production of Petrouchka, including Serge Golovine, Garth Welch and Gaye Sinclair, 1976 (Item 208) - Folio-Box 2
Andris Toppe and Serge Golovine at rehearsal for Ballet Victoria production of Petrouchka, 1976 (Item 209) - Folio-Box 2
Garth Welch rehearsing as the Blackamoor for Ballet Victoria production of Petrouchka, 1976 (Item 210) - Folio-Box 2
Rehearsal for Ballet Victoria production of Petrouchka, with Galina Panov as the Ballerina and Garth Welch as the Blackamoor, 1976 (Item 211) - Folio-Box 2
Dress rehearsal for Ballet Victoria production of Petrouchka, with cast including Galina Panov, Garth Welch, Valery Panov, Laurence Bishop, 1976 (Item 212) - Folio-Box 2
Garth Welch as the Blackamoor in Petrouchka, Ballet Victoria (standing pose), 1976 (Item 213) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Garth Welch as the Blackamoor in Petrouchka, Ballet Victoria (sitting pose), 1976 (Item 214) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Gaye Sinclair as the Ballerina, Garth Welch as the Blackamoor and Andris Toppe as Petrouchka in Petrouchka, Ballet Victoria [1], 1976 (Item 215) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Gaye Sinclair as the Ballerina, Garth Welch as the Blackamoor and Andris Toppe as Petrouchka in Petrouchka, Ballet Victoria [2], 1976 (Item 216) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Gaye Sinclair as the Ballerina, Garth Welch as the Blackamoor and Andris Toppe as Petrouchka in Petrouchka, Ballet Victoria [3], 1976 (Item 217) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Andris Toppe as Petrouchka in Petrouchka, Ballet Victoria, 1976 (Item 218) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Gaye Sinclair as the Ballerina in Petrouchka, Ballet Victoria, 1976 (Item 219) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Green & Hahn, Christchurch
Galina Panov as the Ballerina and Garth Welch as the Blackamoor in Petrouchka, Ballet Victoria, 1976 (Item 220) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Robert McFarlane
Valery Panov as Petrouchka and Garth Welch as the Blackamoor in Petrouchka, Ballet Victoria, 1976 (Item 221) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Robert McFarlane
Valery Panov as Petrouchka with cast of Ballet Victoria in Petrouchka, 1976 (Item 222) - Folio-Box 2
Photography: stamped verso - Robert McFarlane
Susanna Tyzack and Leszek Kuligowski with cast of Ballet Victoria in Petrouchka, 1976 (Item 223) - Folio-Box 2
Series 2. Music, 1901-1973
Manuscript and published piano music and orchestral scores for ballet productions, arranged in alphabetical order by composer.
Giselle, 1946 (Item 1) - Folio-Box 3
1 score (14p.) Music by Adolphe Adam. Arranged by Granville Bantock. U.S.A.: W. Paxton & Co Ltd
Giselle, [19--] (Item 2-3) - Folio-Box 3
2 scores (92p). Music by Adolphe Adam. Arranged by Henri Busser. Paris: Max Eschig
Giselle, [19--] (Item 6) - Folio-Box 3
8 ms parts (336p). Music by Adolphe Adam. Arranged by P.E. Andry
Giselle, [19--] (Item 7) - Folio-Box 3
1 ms score (112p). Music by Adolphe Adam. Arranged by P. E. Andry
Jota Aragonesa, [19--] (Item 11) - Folio-Box 4
1 score (10p). Music by J. Albeniz. London: Schott & Co
Prince Igor Overtures, danses et marche, [19--] (Item 14) - Folio-Box 4
1 score (27p). Music by A Borodine. London: Boosey & Hawkes
Ballade, [19--] (Item 16) - Folio-Box 4
1 ms score; 13 parts (54p). Music by Frederick Chopin. Arranged by W. Lehmann
Suite from Hiawatha, 1919 (Item 17) - Folio-Box 4
1 score (25p). Music by S. Coleridge-Taylor. London: Hawkes & Son
Coppelia valse, 1966 (Item 18) - Folio-Box 4
1 score (7p). Music by Delibes. Arranged by Victor Ambroise. London: Lawrence Wright Music
Jazz – Etude, 1926 (Item 20) - Folio-Box 4
1 score (2p). Music by O.A. Evans. Leipzig: Jul. Heinr. Zimmerman
Jazz – Etude, [19--] (Item 21) - Folio-Box 4
20 ms parts (28p). Music by O.A. Evans. Arranged by Heinz [Schuster]
5 popular country dances, [19--] (Item 22) - Folio-Box 4
1 score (10p). Arranged by Arnold Foster. London: Oxford University Press
Les saisons, 1901 (Item 23) - Folio-Box 4
1 score (69p). Music by Alexandre Glazounow; Edition M.P. Belaieff
Raymonda, 1968 (Item 24) - Folio-Box 4
1 score (182p). Music by A. Glazounow. Moscow: Editions Musique
Danzas Espanolas, 1914 (Item 25) - Folio-Box 4
1 score (9p). Music by Enrique Granados. Arranged by G Schirmer
Danzas Espanolas, [19--] (Item 26) - Folio-Box 4
1 ms score (3p); 6 parts (12p). Music by Enrique Granados. Arranged by L. Morehouse
Lyric suite, 1919 (Item 29) - Folio-Box 4
8 parts (32p). Music by Edvard Grieg. U.S.A.: Carl Fischer
Seven beauties, 1972 (Item 35) - Folio-Box 5
1 score (150p). Music by Kara Karayev. Arranged for piano by V. Leyechkis. Moscow: Soviet composer
The Highland Woman, 1973 (Item 36) - Folio-Box 5
1 score (210p). Music by Murad Kazhlayev. Libretto by O. Vinogradov. Moscow: State Publishers Music
Memoires d'un Ane, 1932 (Item 37) - Folio-Box 5
1 score (29p). Music by Paul Ladmirault. Paris: Heugel
Two Breton Folk Dances, 1927 (Item 38) - Folio-Box 5
1 score (4p). Music by Paul Ladmirault. London: Oxford University Press
Scaramouche, [19--] (Item 39) - Folio-Box 5
1 ms score (14p); 7 parts (52p). Music by Darius Milhaud. Arranged by L. Morehouse
Le pas d'acier L'enfant prodigue Sur le Borysthene Ballets in one act, 1971 (Item 42) - Folio-Box 5
1 score (153p). Music by S. Prokofieff. Moscow: Editions musique
Prelude in c sharp minor, [19--] (Item 43) - Folio-Box 5
2 scores (8p). Music by Rachmaninoff. Melbourne: Allan & Co
The English Country Dance, 1929 (Item 44) - Folio-Box 6
1 score (25p). Arranged by Cecil J. Sharp. London: Novello & Co Ltd
Country Dance Tunes, 1909 (Item 45) - Folio-Box 6
1 score (210p). Arranged by Cecil Sharp. London: Novello
Petit point, [19--] (Item 46) - Folio-Box 6
1 ms score (14p); 10 parts (33p). Music by Schubert. Arranged by R. Hughes
Carnaval, 1944 (Item 48) - Folio-Box 6
1 score (51p). Music by Robert Schumann. Edited by Harold Bauer. London: Chappell & Co Ltd
En saga, 1903 (Item 49) - Folio-Box 6
8 parts (58p). Music by Jean Sibelius. Germany: Breitkopf & Martel
Rustle of spring, [19--] (Item 51) - Folio-Box 6
1 score (10p). Music by Christian Sinding. Leipzig: C.F. Peters
Revived Greek dance, 1929 (Item 52) - Folio-Box 6
1 score (16p). Music by Mary Starling. London: Association of teachers of the revived Greek dance.
Morgenblatter, C 1930 (Item 53) - Folio-Box 6
12 part (38p). Music by Johann Strauss. Arranged by L. Artok. London: Schott & Co Ltd
Nutcracker suite, 1969 (Item 54) - Folio-Box 7
1 score (160p). Music by P. Tchaikovsky. Moscow: Editions Musique
Chant sans paroles, 1908 (Item 55) - Folio-Box 7
1 score (7p). Music by P. Tchaikowsky. London: The Frederick Harris Co
Sleeping Beauty, [19--] (Item 56) - Folio-Box 7
1 score (284p). Music by P. Tchaikowsky. Arranged for piano by A. Siloti
En Cirque, [19--] (Item 57) - Folio-Box 7
1 ms score (124p). Music by Alexandre Tcheripin. Orchestrated by Robert Trumble
First love, 1972 (Item 58) - Folio-Box 7
1 score (146p). Music by Mikhail Ziv. Moscow: Soviet Composer
Asel, 1969 (Item 59) - Folio-Box 7
1 score (162p). Music by Vladimir Vlasov. Moscow: State Publishers
Unknown ballet for children (illustrated book with piano pieces), 1972 (Item 61) - Folio-Box 8
1 score (122p)
Singing games for tiny folk, [19--] (Item 65) - Folio-Box 8
1 score (27p). Compiled by Doris McCallum. Sydney: A.H. Pettifer
Series 3. Audio tapes, 1974-1979
These audio reels includes a number of recordings which accompanied performances of productions by Ballet Victoria, as well as recordings which accompanied regular dance classes.
Performance: Class, Avalanche [item 1], 1974 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004895) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-024
1 item, 10 inch reel Revox, Magnetic tape reel (any size)Title from accompanying documentation. Inscription on accompanying label: 'B.V.A. – Ballet Vic. tape A to 2, spools, 2ndary School Prog., I, Copy – Performance, Class / Avalanche / Blob to be, tape splices already in, 7 1/2 tape so music will 19.4.74, have to fit in between'.
Coppelia performance [item 2] (Item NLA.MS-SAV004896) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-024
1 item, 10 inch reel Revox, Magnetic tape reel (any size)Background music, 'Orchestral background music' [item 3] (Item NLA.MS-SAV004897) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-024
1 item, 10 inch reel Revox, Magnetic tape reel (any size)Cinderella [item 4] (Item NLA.MS-SAV004898) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-024
1 item, 10 inch reel Revox, Magnetic tape reel (any size)School demonstration [At the Fair] Balwyn Sch. Dances, 'at the fair' [item 5] (Item NLA.MS-SAV004899) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-024
1 item, 10 inch reel Revox, Magnetic tape reel (any size)Part I: Master class [Intermediate], directed by Leon Danielian, Part II: Errol Addison Balletic Enjoyment, Professional Class [item 6] (Item NLA.MS-SAV004900) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-024
1 item, 10 inch reel Revox, Magnetic tape reel (any size)Title devised by cataloguer. Inscription on accompanying label lists various movements undertaken during class.
Giselle Act 1 [Rehearsal] 'Giselle Act I, to end of man's solo, pas de trios' [item 7] (Item NLA.MS-SAV004901) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-024
1 item, 7 inch Scotch Magnetic Tape, Magnetic tape reel (any size)Demonstration, Term 2, Ballet Guild, 1978, 'Elementary short tape', '2. Term II Demo B.G.' [item 8] (Item NLA.MS-SAV004902) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-024
1 item, 7 inch Scotch Magnetic Tape, Magnetic tape reel (any size)More information on casing.
Class - Gerrard Woollems, Gerrard Woollems pianist [item 11] (Item NLA.MS-SAV004905) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-024
1 item, 7 inch EMI Magnetic Tape, Magnetic tape reel (any size)Gerrard Woollem Tape 1 [item 14] (Item NLA.MS-SAV004908) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-024
1 item, 7 inch EMI Magnetic Tape, Magnetic tape reel (any size)Series 4. Other papers, 1944-1988
This series contains material relating to various aspects of Laurel Martyn's professional career with the Melbourne Ballet Club, and its later forms the Ballet Guild, and Ballet Victoria. There are also personal notes on some of Martyn's productions, teaching methods, and study tours.
Melbourne Ballet Club, 1944-1946 (File 1) - Box 10
Includes a calendar of the Melbourne Ballet Club 1940-1944, a circular for a party, and a letter from the Melbourne Ballet Club to members regarding the employment of Laurel Martyn to 'produce and direct a ballet'.
Ballet Guild financials and company information, 1951-1960 (File 2) - Box 10
Contains receipts and expenditure (1948); financial information for Ballet Guild, including balance sheet for 1951; profit and loss account as at 30 June 1959; a copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Victorian Ballet Guild 1960; profit and loss account as at 30 June 1960; and seasons loss 1957-1960. The folder also contains a tour itinery for the 'Classical Ballet Tour, 1955', procedure at opening of new Ballet Guild headquarters 1963, and information on the history of the Ballet Guild company, members' nights, production club and school.
Ballet Victoria Schools, 1973-1974 (File 3) - Box 10
Prospectus for 1973, Ballet Victoria Schools Submission, report on 'in-training' period, information on Ballet Victoria Schools, syllabus, Graduation Course programme, Ballet Victoria Secondary School study programme, prospectus 1974, Ballet Victoria Schools Rules and Regulations, and a Ballet Victoria Schools newsletter, 1974.
Ballet Victoria Schools, 1975-1977 (File 4) - Box 10
Information re end of year demonstration, notices to students, plan of activities for diploma course students 1975, notes on mime course and theatre course, list of teachers' full-time responsibilities (and salaries) in 1975, prospectus (1976), letter to parents from Joseph A. Lyons regarding the formation of a new company to be called the 'Victorian Ballet School' (Lyons was the inaugural President), Newsletter no. 2 1976, financials relating for the year 1976, 1976 Orientation Week information, information relating to the 1976 end of year demonstration, 'A System of Education in Movement and Dance: devised by Laurel Martyn', syllabus, 1977 budget.
Ballet Victoria grant submissions, 1975-1977 (File 5) - Box 10
Contains Ballet Victoria grant submissions and related documentation to the Australia Council and the Victorian Ministry for the Arts. The submissions contain a large number of financial statements relating to Ballet Victoria.
Ballet Guild minutes of board and committee meetings, 1973 (File 6) - Box 10
Minutes of the meetings of directors, annual general meetings, company committee, finance and administration committee, promotion committee, representative action committee, publicity and funding committee, and a report on Ballet Victoria.
Ballet Victoria media releases, 1973-1976 (File 7) - Box 10
Ballet Victoria media releases, and a media pack containing annual report for 1975, program for Ballet Victoria performance at the Festival Theatre, press release relating to the guest artists Valery and Galina Panov, and ephemeral material relating to the Panov tour.
Utassy Memorial Ballet School, 1988 (File 8) - Box 10
Information relating to Utassy Memorial Ballet School's senior school performance 1988, Classical Dance Teachers of Australia Inc. Demonstration, and a promotional folder for Utassy Memorial Ballet School. Laurel Martyn was a consultant specialist teacher for the school.
Ballet Victoria Petrouchka Ballet colouring contest (File 9) - Box 10
This folder contains 26 entries to Ballet Victoria's Petrouchka Ballet colouring contest. The competition was held in conjuction with the Christchurch Star newspaper and promoted the company's July 1976 season of Petrouchka, with guest artists Galina and Valery Panov, at the Theatre Royal, Christchurch.
Miscellaneous, 1953-1980 (File 10) - Box 10
Notes relating to Carnival of Animals, Suite d'Aurore, Swan Lake, photocopied biographies on dancers, 'Introduction to Ballet', Classical Dance Teachers Australia Examinations, The Ballet Teachers Workshop '80, Teaching Programmes Degrees One to Six, resume for Dianne Parrington, notes on the formation of a students representative council, and a report on Laurel Martyn's study tour of Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and the USSR 1973. This folder also contains Ballet Guild programs for the Summer Season 1953, various programs for Ballet Victoria 1972-1970s, Australia Dances, Vol. 1 1951, Dance Concert, Vol. 1, No. 3 1976.