Anton Dolin
Sir Anton Dolin (27 July 1904 – 25 November 1983)[1] was an English ballet dancer and choreographer.
Dolin was born in Slinfold in Sussex as Sydney Francis Patrick Chippendall Healey-Kay but was generally known as Patrick Kay. He joined Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1921, was a principal there from 1924, and was a principal with the Vic-Wells Ballet in the 1930s. There he danced with Alicia Markova, with whom he went on to found the Markova-Dolin Ballet and the London Festival Ballet.
Dolin wrote several books, including the autobiography Ballet Go Round (1938) and Alicia Markova: Her Life and Art (1953).[2] He was knighted in 1981. He is featured in the documentary film A Portrait of Giselle.
For many years he lived with the ballet dancer John Gilpin.
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- ^ W. J. McCormack (1999). "The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture". Blackwell Publishing. pp. 172. http://books.google.com/books?id=ANgdh-3cMowC. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
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[edit] References
- Anton Dolin: autobiography
- Last words: a final autobiography
- Markova: her life and art
- Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin: a legend of British ballet : a collection of portraits with foreword by Peter Williams
- Ballet Magazine by Jane Simpson, 30 September 1997
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