THE RUSSIAN BALLET.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 22

THE RUSSIAN BALLET.

The .art of dancing as expressed in the form -and decorum of the Russian school-is the most vital m the world 'today; with that international appeal-twhich! makes artistic endeavour really -great. New Zealand lovers pi the dance in'its^most artistic form will have an-opportunity next month- pi seeing;1 a world-famous company in programmes'of sheer delight—for the Colonel de Basil Monte Carlo Ballet is to commence a Dominion tour at Auckland on March 3 under Wilham-son-Tait' direction. The tour was to commence earlier, but owing to the phenomenal season in Sydney, there has been an extension of the visit there. ')'< Australian audiences have gone into raptures over the beautiful spectacles presented under the leadership of Leon Weizikowsky, maitre de ballet;: dance scenas that have dazzled the eye with the beauty of movement, the poetry of expression, and the exquisite i! dressing and ' mounting; while some inner consciousness has been completely satisfied by the music of Jascha ' Horenstein's orchestra in its rendition of the lovely classics to which the dancers move. The principal dancers are:—Valentina Blinova, Helene»Kirsova, Tamara Tchinarova, Natalia Branitzka, Anna Scarpa, Sonia Weizokovska, Nina Ralievska, Mira Dimina, _■ Leo Weizkowsky, Valentin Frerhan,- Roland Guerard, Jan Hoyer, Viveneßoervig, Nina Kirsanova, Nina Golovina, Paul Retroff, Igor Yousskevitch, and Birger Bartholin.