- Anton Dolin
Sir Anton Dolin was the stage name of Sydney Francis Patrick Healey-Kay (
27 July 1904 –25 November 1983 ), [cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ANgdh-3cMowC|title=The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture|author=W. J. McCormack|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|date=1999|pages=172|accessdate=2008-02-20] an Englishballet dancer andchoreographer .Dolin was born in
Slinfold inSussex . He joinedSerge Diaghilev 'sBallets Russes in 1921, was a principal there from 1924, and was a principal with theVic-Wells Ballet in the 1930s. There he danced withAlicia Markova , with whom he went on to found theMarkova-Dolin Ballet and theLondon Festival Ballet .Dolin wrote several books, including the autobiography "Ballet Go Round" (1938) and " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2177441 Alicia Markova: Her Life and Art] " (1953). He was
knighted in 1981. For many years he lived with the ballet dancer John Gilpin.Notes
References
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2008243 Anton Dolin: autobiography] " / Anton Dolin
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1557769 Last words: a final autobiography] " / Anton Dolin
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2177441 Markova: her life and art] " / Anton Dolin
* " [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1707594 Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin: a legend of British ballet : a collection of portraits] " / with foreword by Peter WilliamsExternal links
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an11855452 Photographs of Anton Dolin and others in ballet performances] - held and digitised by the National Library of Australia
* [http://images.google.com.au/images?q=Anton+Dolin&hl=en Images of Anton Dolin]
* [http://michaelminn.net/andros/index.php?dolin_anton Anton Dolin at Andros on Ballet]
* [http://www.bartleby.com/65/do/Dolin-An.html Columbia Encyclopedia entry]
* [http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9362923/Sir-Anton-Dolin Concise Encyclopedia Britannica entry]
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