Keith Glennon
Dance in Australia : papers, notes, correspondence, etc.
1913-1970
MSS 792.80994 G558d
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Boxes 1-13
Drafts of book chapters (manuscript and typescript), together with some related correspondence, programmes newspaper cuttings and photographs.
| Boxes 1-2 | General - final drafts of proposed history |
| Box 3 | Australian Ballet Company |
| National Theatre Ballet Company | |
| Box 4 | National Ballet |
| Australian Dance Theatre | |
| Ballet Australia | |
| Ballet Theatre of Queensland, Queensland Ballet Company | |
| Box 5 | Western Australia |
| Box 6 | New South Wales |
| Box 7 | South Australia |
| Victoria | |
| Box 8 | Queensland |
| Tasmania | |
| Darwin | |
| Boxes 9-10 | Individual dancers/directors of smaller companies and groups. |
| Box 9 | Nell Johnson and Desley Gardiner |
| Coralie Hinkley | |
| Joanne Priest | |
| Ronne Arnold | |
| Margaret Barr [see also Box 10, Barr and Bodenwieser] |
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| Jean Dembitska | |
| Joy Lodge | |
| Margo Thomas | |
| Ruth Bergner | |
| Sonia Revid | |
| Lola von Laban | |
| Joan Henry | |
| Joan Joske | |
| Hanny Kolm | |
| Helene Ffrance | |
| Cornelius Conyn | |
| Daisy Pirnitzer-Behrend | |
| Pat Edye-Martyn | |
| Elisabet Wiener | |
| Gerda Haas | |
| Margaret Lasica | |
| (New Dance Theatre) | |
| Box 10 | Ruth Galene (New Dance Theatre) |
| R. Kousnetzova | |
| Kirsova | |
| Katherine Dunham | |
| Shirley McKechnie | |
| Burlakov & Lightfoot | |
| Beth Dean | |
| Barr and Bodenweiser [see also Box 18] |
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| Boxes 11-12 | Companies and organisations |
| Box 11 | Borovansky Ballet |
| Box 12 | Modern Dance |
| Aboriginal Theatre | |
| Australia Council for the Arts | |
| Dalcroze Eurhythmics | |
| T.V. | |
| Ballet Theatre le Francais | |
| Box 13 | Adult Education, C.A.E., Arts Council, Australian Children's Theatre, Ethnic Dance. |
| Box 14 | Correspondence with Alan Brissenden, Walter Stringer and others and with publishers regarding the research for and publication of the work Australia Dances; also notes on publication details and arrangements. 1955-70. |
| Papers re the Society of Dance Arts (S.O.D.A.) 1969. [file includes material on Dance Concert 1967-72 and undated and a Contemporary Dance Theatre concert 1968.] |
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| Boxes 15-16 |  Photographs of dancers and performances. |
| Box 17 | Newspaper cuttings. |
| Boxes 18-20 | Ballet programmes and magazines. |
| Box 18 | Genée (1913), Pavlova (1926, 1929), Fonteyn (1957) Visiting companies, including Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo (1936-37) and Covent Garden Ballet Russe (1939) Borovansky 1945-60 |
| Box 19 | Bodenwieser c.1949-60, Australian Ballet 1962-71 and miscellaneous. |
| Box 20 | Dance magazines [including Australasian Dance vol.1 no.1, March 1971 - vol.2 no.1, December 1972; Young Ballerina 1968-72 and various 1960s issues of Masque. |
| Boxes 21-22 | Miscellaneous (notes, cuttings, programmes, etc., in files and bundles variously listed by Glennon e.g. Exams, Eisteddfords, Receptions). |
| Box 22 (part) and MapCabinet |
Original sketches - costumes, sets, performances. Most undated and many unidentified. |
Special list - Original sketches - costumes, sets, performances, 1946-1957, plus some undated - Box 22 plus Folios 1-12
Box 22.1 Helen George (9 items)
Borovansky Ballet, Giselle (19??). Peggy Sager as Myrtha; Giselle with sword (Act 1) 2 sheets (conté)
Studio Theatre Ballet, The Listener (19??). Group of 3 dancers. 2 sheets (conté & wash)
Studio Theatre Ballet, Joan of Arc (1956). 2 dancers x 2. 2 sheets (1 pencil & conté, 1 conté & wash)
Borovansky Ballet, Prince Igor (19??). Dancer. 1 sheet (conté)
Borovansky Ballet, Les Sylphides (19??). Prelude (?) 1 sheet (conté)
With an accompanying letter from Helen George to Glennon 15/2/1957
Box 22.2 Elaine Haxton (12 items)
Decorations for Australia Dances. Also note from Keith Glennon to Rod Shaw.11 sheets (8 pen, 3 red chalk)
With an accompanying note from Keith Glennon to Rod Shaw of Edward & Shaw [1960?]
Box 22.3 Erica McGilchrist (3 items)
Victorian Ballet Guild, Blythe Ballet (1953). Costume designs. 2 sheets, plus 1 booklet (4 p.) (watercolour)
Folio 1 Ruth Shackel (8 items)
Victorian Ballet Guild, L’Amour Enchanté (1950) (later The Lake). Costume designs. 4 sheets (ink & watercolour)
Victorian Ballet Guild, Choreomania (1950). Costume designs. 3 sheets (watercolour)
Unidentified costume design, “Kangaroo Paw” (probably not Victorian Ballet Guild work) 1 sheet (watercolour)
Folio 2 Unidentified costume design (1 item)
Folio 3 Possibly Victorian Ballet Guild (6 items)
Harold Vike, sketches of dancer in same pose. 5 sheets (ink drawings)
Dancers in Swan Lake and various unidentified works (possibly including Coppelia) 1 sheet of 6 ink drawings
Folio 4 Nina Brabant (7 items)
Victorian Ballet Guild, Rehearsal (195?), Mathinna (1954), The Wedding (1956), [Dancer on pointe], [Dancer with ladder], The Sentimental Bloke (1952) x 2. 7 sheets (pen and wash)
Folio 5 Copies of designs (3 items)
Bakst: design for L’Après midi d’une Faune, and a Hindu/Indian identity. Gontcharova’s design for The Queen of Shenakhan from Fokine’s Le Coq d’Or. 3 sheets (watercolour)
Folio 6 Various (13 Items)
Sydney Ballet Group, Theseus and the Minotaur (1952). Kelvin [Wayne] Pleming, costume designs. 1 sheet (ink & watercolour)
Victorian Ballet Guild, Apollon Musagete (1951) (then M. Scott Stravinsky). Nick McKenzie, 2 costume designs and 1 set design. 3 sheets
West Australian Ballet, Coppelia (1955). V. Rostof, 2 costume designs and 1 set design (Act 1). 3 sheets [Note: Signature may be Rastas – if so then Caravan Ballet]
Also unidentified costume designs dated 1954, one character labelled Gundi, another Ingrid. 6 sheets
Folio 7 Photographs – various (8 items)
National Theatre Ballet: Romantic Suite (1949) - Joyce Graeme. 1 photograph
Victorian Ballet Guild: The Lake (1950?) - Eve King. 1 photograph
Graham Smith (unidentified), Jean Stewart (photographer) 2 photographs
National Theatre Ballet: Margaret Scott (1949) 1 photograph
Chinese National Theatre (c1956-1957) 2 photographs
Queensland Ballet :The Utopians (19??)– Mary Heath, Harold Collins and the corps de ballet. Geoff Danth (photographer) 2 photographs
Folio 8 Sketches for publications (5 items)
Victorian Ballet Guild, Ballade (1946) – costume design by Len Annois for the Guild’s first programme, 5/11/1946. 1 sheet
Elaine Haxton: studies for chapter heading “Touring” for proposed publication, Australia Dances. 4 sheets (1 colour , 3 b&w)
Folio 9 Wilfred Asplin (4 items)
Polish Australian Ballet, Coppelia (1952). Costume designs. 4 sheets (2 colour, 2 pencil sketches)
Folio 10 William Constable & Barry Kay (8 items)
Borovansky Ballet
Petrouchka (1951). William Constable, costume design for The Moor [1950]
The Black Swan (1951). William Constable, unfinished front cloth design. 2 sheets (watercolour)
Victorian Ballet Guild
Swan Lake (1954). Barry Kay, set design and gauze design (Act 2); costume designs for Von Rothbart and Prince Siegfried (Act 2)
Maldicion (1954). Barry Kay, 2 costume designs, 1 for the Sorceress. 6 sheets
Folio 11 Kenneth Rowell & Harold Vike (5 items)
Studio Theatre Ballet, Kenneth Rowell, costume design for the Girl in a projected ballet, 1944. 1 sheet (watercolour)
National Theatre Ballet, Aurora’s Wedding (1949). Kenneth Rowell, costume design for Prince Florestan and Sisters [1949] 1 sheet (watercolour)
Victorian Ballet Guild, The Selfish Giant (1947). Harold Vike, set design. 1 sheet (watercolour)
National Theatre Ballet, Kaleidoscope (1949?). Harold Vike, costume designs. 2 sheets
Folio 12 Various (14 items)
National Theatre Ballet, Les Sylphides (1949). Kenneth Rowell, set design [dated 1949] 1 sheet (watercolour). With a Harry Jay photograph of a scene from the 1949 production featuring Rowell's set design [donated by Nicholas Henderson March 2010]
Borovansky Ballet, Symphonie Fantastique (1954). William Constable, set designs for 1st, 2nd & 5th Movements [dated 1953] 3 sheets (watercolour)
Borovansky Ballet, Fifth Symphony (Les Presages) (1955). William Constable, set design and conjective study for front cloth. 2 sheets (watercolour)
Borovansky Ballet, Petrouchka (1951). William Constable, costume designs for A Street Dancer [dated 1950] 2 sheets (watercolour)
Victorian Ballet Guild, Mathinna (1954). Nina Brabant, sketch of Mathinna; set design for Act 2. 2 sheets (watercolour)
Victorian Ballet Guild, En Cirque (1952); Contes Heraldiques (1946). Nina Brabant, sketches. 2 sheets (pen)
Victorian Ballet Guild, Blythe Ballet (1953). Erica Gilchrist, set design (another unfinished on reverse) 1 sheet (watercolour)
