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Brenda Last achieved distinction as a ballerina with The Royal Ballet, but this was after a successful and multi-facetted career in many theatrical disciplines. Here, she tells Patricia Linton,...
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Suzanne Musitz. Australian dancer and director
Suzanne Musitz danced with Western Theatre Ballet and was a founder member of The Australian Ballet in 1962. In 1969, encouraged by Peggy van Praagh, Musitz founded a small group known originally as Ballet in a Nutshell, and then as the Sydney Dance Company (NSW). Musitz led the company for a few years, which became Sydney Dance Company in 1979.
In The Prisoners, Peter Darrell’s work for Western Theatre Ballet in 1957, two convicts escape from prison, one to his death, and the other to a life of enslavement to his friend’s wife. The...