I've just put up a page about
Michelle Potters 'A collector's Book of Australian Dance'.
It's cram packed with lovely images, a few of which are on the page at:
http://www.ballet.co.uk/magazines/yr_03/feb03/aus_dance_book.htm

You can order the book from the National Library of Australia web site at:
http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/dance.html

But you can win a free copy by entering our competition...

The Competition...
The following image is actually of Jennifer Barry and Janet Vernon in Barry Moreland's Dialogues 1982 and the photograph is by Walter Stringer (1907-2001 ) ©

Now disregard the actual details because to enter the competition all you have to do is give us an amusing caption to the picture - by replying to this Posting. If you are registered for Postings just hit reply.

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The competition will run through March and the winner will be announced in early April. Feel free to enter as many times as you want. As usual the judges decision will be final!

Do have a go....

Thought of Lady on the Right: "As if I don't know she's looking for that contact lens, well as far as I'm concerned I have no obligation to tell her it's under my toes. Let her look."

"one of the advantages of being a ballerina is that even losing
a game of musical chairs can be done with exquisite poise and grace !"
OR
"jennifer and janet were always the last to leave a restaurant even
when the staff had began to pack away the tables and chairs !"

Lady in Blue to Lady in Red: You'll never get the role. You only have one foot.

Alternatively:

"After their mother took up belly dancing and was arrested for smoking pot, the girls tried their hardest to maintain a conservative veneer."

OR

"Henrietta's dialogue suddenly ceased as she became aware of the obvious antisocial aspect to Penelope's new high-fibre diet"

or

"The subject of Larry's conjunctivitis was always a conversation stopper."

or

"Socially, it was most distressing to discover that their dressmaker used the same pattern among clients."

LAST EDITED ON 14-03-03 AT 11:31 PM (GMT)

The unfortunate baby nurse, having misplaced the Princess Aurora after a blessing from the Fairy of Forgetfulness, desperately tried to find her without letting the nearsighted Queen realize what had gone wrong. (Photo from the new minimalist Sleeping Beauty of 2013, with set design by Ken Livingstone, costumes by Mary McCartney, Libretto by Paul Daniels and narration by Rula Lenska).

"midway through her 13th fouette jennifer realised that it had been foolish to
ignore the surveyors dire warnings of the theatres wood worm problem "

Sadly budget cuts have meant some changes to The Royal Ballet's published performances of Winter Dreams.

Cast reduction measures are in force and the ballet will be now retitled Autumn Dozings. Masha's absence from the procedings will be indicated by a curtain announcement indicating that she had already departed for her new life in Moscow.

Phil

for...

Walter Stringer (1907-2001 ) ©

"One of the advantages of being a ballerina is that even losing
a game of musical chairs can be done with exquisite poise and grace!"

but thanks everybody for such great entries