The Borovansky Ballet

Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 44, 21 February 1945, Page 3

The Borovansky Ballet

The box plans will be opened at Collinson and Cunninghame's to-morrow morning for the appearance at the Opera House on Monday night next of the famous Borovansky' Ballet Company, which is touring New Zealand under the direction of the J. C. \\ illiamson Theatres Ltd. management. In addition to the dancers who appeared here in December last the company now includes Tamara Tscliinarova, who on two former occasions visited Palmerston North, one with the Monte Carlo Russian Ballet and the other time with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet. The company also includes Jonet Wilkie, a young Wellington Ballerina who spent several years in Londou and on the Continent before joining the Borovansky school in Melbourne, and she has made great strides in her profession. The perfect training of the ballet in the interpretation of themes set to the music of Chopin, C. M. Weber and other composers is eclipsed only' by the outstanuing work of the principal dancers. There is a galaxy of brilliant dancers in the Borovansky company, including Dorothy {Stevenson, Laurel Martyn, Edna Busse, Corrie Lodders, Martin Rubinstein, {Serge Bousloff, Phyllis Kennedy' arid others. The brilliant team work of the eorps de ballet is a big feature of the various ballets. Though there are only two pianos the music is one of the features of the show, and the absence of an orchestra leaves the mind of the audience free to lose itself in the poetry of the dance, in which costumes which are a triumph of conception for the roles add to tho pleasure of the evening.