N.Z. Ballet In Strenuous Daily Rehearsal

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30899, 4 November 1965, Page 9

N.Z. Ballet In Strenuous Daily Rehearsal

DANCERS REGARD THEIR BODIES as machines which must be kept in top condition. Even the guest stars put on their practice clothes and do strenuous daily classes in the ballet. These photographs were taken during rehearsals of the New Zealand Ballet for its current performances of “Giselle” and “Swan Lake.” TOP: Jean-Paul Comelin and Marilyn Burr, international guest stars now with the New Zealand company, run through two movements from “Swan Lake”; Karl Musil, principal dancer of the Vienna State Opera Ballet, in one of his flying “grand jetes”; Terry Westmoreland, who is back from overseas as a guest star in his old company, in action. BOTTOM: Georgene Walker, a solo dancer, checks a point shoe for this evening’s performance of “Gisrle”; the four cygnets of “Swan Lake” ready for the first bar of their music (from left are Loma Rogers, Jill Broomfield, Jacqueline Muirhead, and Gillian Francis); Pamela Meakins and Susan Jordon in the corps de ballet; Russell Kerr, artistic director. “Once more, please,” he says, and says it again until he is satisfied.