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The australian ballet youtube biography
The Australian Ballet
Classical ballet company in Australia
The Australian Ballet (TAB) is the largest classical ballet company in Australia. It was founded by J. C.
Williamson Theatres Ltd and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1962, with the English-born dancer, teacher, repetiteur and director Dame Peggy van Praagh as founding artistic director. Today, it is recognised as one of the world's major international ballet companies and performs upwards of 150 performances (both in Australia and overseas) a year.
History
The roots of the Australian Ballet can be found in the Borovansky Ballet, a touring repertory company[1] founded in 1940 by the Czech dancer Edouard Borovansky. Borovansky had been a dancer in the touring ballet company of the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and, after visiting Australia on tour with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet, he decided to remain in Australia, establishing a ballet school in Melbourne in 1939, out of w