Helpmann

Sir Robert. 1909--86, Australian ballet dancer and choreographer: his ballets include Miracle in the Gorbals (1944), Display (1965), and Yugen (1965)

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Helpmann had a lucky escape during filming when the horse-drawn carriage he was driving overturned.

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Pictures of the performer at Sydney's Annual Helpmann Awards, earlier this month, show the brunette babe looking fantastic.

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When the Helpmann Awards (Australia's Tony Awards) takes place there, The Green Room is very full, and very fun.

Foodie's paradise . . . Down Under

Over the years he had a respectable share of leading roles, many of them created by some of the great choreographers of the twentieth century--Frederick Ashton, Ninette de Valois, John Cranko, Robert Helpmann, and Kenneth MacMillan among others.

In Good Company: 60 Years with The Royal Ballet

Most recently, the show won five Helpmann Awards in Australia including best musical.

A behind-the-scenes look at the reimagined 'Les Miserables'

Constant never did visit his father's adopted land, but from the 1930s he surrounded himself with Aussie expatriates, including soprano Joan Hammond, composer Arthur Benjamin, dancer Sir Robert Helpmann, and pianist Gordon Watson.

Constant Lambert lost (and found)

Created in the 1940s by Robert Helpmann (best known as the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), it is no wonder that it's so edgy.

Miraculous re-make; REVIEW

(33) They believed that the strength of their work must come 'from within oneself'.34 Others in the group included actors Agnes Dobson, Patricia Hackett, and Robert Helpmann, and dancers Mina Bauer, Walter Dasborough, and Joan Joske from Melbourne.

Heather Gell and music education in the community

Grossman and Helpmann (1991) show that knowledge spillovers are not limited to domestic investment, as international trade can also familialize a country with certain technologies that did not previously exist in that country.

The Interaction Between FDI and Infrastructure Capital in The Development Process

A musician, educator and researcher, he was nominated for Best Original Score in the 2012 Helpmann Awards, received the Department of Education WA Barry Hayward Outstanding Aboriginal Educator Award in 2010 and is the current JS Battye Research Fellow at the State Library of Western Australia.

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In this revealing film portrait, made two years before her death, she remembers her life from her first dancing lesson when she was four years old, alongside recollections from figures such as Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann and Rudolf Nureyev.