Anton Dolin
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Anton Dolin was the stage name of Sydney Francis Patrick Healey-Kay (1904–1983), an English ballet dancer and choreographer.
Dolin was born in Slinfold in Sussex. He joined Serge 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). He was knighted in 1981.
References
- [Anton Dolin: autobiography] / Anton Dolin
- [Last words: a final autobiography] / Anton Dolin
- [Markova: her life and art] / Anton Dolin
- [Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin: a legend of British ballet : a collection of portraits] / with foreword by Peter Williams
External links
- [Photographs of Anton Dolin and others in ballet performances] - held and digitised by the National Library of Australia
- [Images of Anton Dolin]
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