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A political soft-shoe shuffle: de Basil’s Ballets Russes and the centenary of South Australia (1936)

by Mark Carroll originally published on in Brolga 25

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Dr Mark Carroll describes the people, press and politics in Adelaide when Colonel Wassily de Basil arrived for the first Australian tour of his Ballet Russes in 1936.