ROYAL BALLET TOUR

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29763, 5 March 1962, Page 14

ROYAL BALLET TOUR

Perth Dancer , Included (NXJ’A.-Reuter— Copyright) LONDON, March 2. A girl who used to teach basic “side-together, sidetogether” ballroom dancing to awkward schoolboys in Perth will go back there next month as a co-star with Dame Margot Fonteyn in the Royal Ballet tour of Australia and New Zealand. The petite, brown-haired Miss Robin Haig, aged 25, is the only Australian to be chosen for the tour. In Perth she was a teacher at a commercial dancing school while studying ballet herself. Also in the party will be the New Zealand dancer Bryan Ashbridge. 35. who has made previous tours of Australia and New Zealand with Beryl Grey and Rowena Jackson. The Royal Ballet description of him is an unrestrained "superb” Miss Haig will return to Perth with her name listed directly under that of Margot Fonteyn among the eight dancers The Australian tour begins on April 5. and the company will appear in Perth, Melbourne. Adelaide and Brisbane before going to Auckland and Wellington. The repertory includes the one-act ballets. Solitaire. Pas des pigeons. Beeutv and the Beast. Valse Excentrique BaUabile Le Snectre de la Rose, Carnival Birthday offering. The Ladv and the Fool. Symphonic Variations There uni! also be excerpts from Don Quixote, Swan Lake. The Sleeping Beeutv Sri via. Facade, Giselle, and Casse-Noisetie.