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Hélène Kirsova (18 June 1910 – 22 February 1962) was a Danish prima ballerina, choreographer and ballet teacher and is noted as the founder of the first professional ballet company in Australia. She trained in Paris with former Sergei Diaghilev ballet dancers and choreographers. She then performed in companies run by Léo Staats and Ida Rubinstein before in 1931 becoming a soloist with Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, dancing for several years in Europe and North America. In 1936, as a principal dancer, she joined René Blum's Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in which she scored a singular success in London. Later that year she joined Colonel Wassily de Basil's Monte Carlo Russian Ballet as prima ballerina on an extensive tour of Australia and New Zealand where she was fêted by critics and audie

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  • Hélène Kirsova (18 June 1910 – 22 February 1962) was a Danish prima ballerina, choreographer and ballet teacher and is noted as the founder of the first professional ballet company in Australia. She trained in Paris with former Sergei Diaghilev ballet dancers and choreographers. She then performed in companies run by Léo Staats and Ida Rubinstein before in 1931 becoming a soloist with Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, dancing for several years in Europe and North America. In 1936, as a principal dancer, she joined René Blum's Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in which she scored a singular success in London. Later that year she joined Colonel Wassily de Basil's Monte Carlo Russian Ballet as prima ballerina on an extensive tour of Australia and New Zealand where she was fêted by critics and audiences. She remained in Australia, started a ballet school in Sydney, and in 1941 formed the Kirsova Ballet. Despite wartime restrictions she directed the company for several years before retiring in 1948. She has been described as the "Godmother" of Australian ballet. (en)
  • Hélène Kirsova, artistnamn för Ellen Wittrup Hansen, född 18 juni 1910 i Köpenhamn, Danmark, död 22 februari 1962 i London, England, var en dansk ballerina och koreograf. Kirsova fick sin grundläggande dansskolning i Paris, och efter att ha turnerat med olika balettsällskap i Sydamerika och Europa engagerade hon sig i Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Sällskapet gjorde en bejublad turné i Australien, och Kirsova fick lysande kritik för sin gestaltning av dockan i Petrusjka och Columbine i . 1938 återvände Kirsova till Australien, där hon gifte sig med den danske vicekonsuln Erik Fischer. Hon grundade 1940 en balettskola i Sydney samt året därpå , som anlitade flera unga dansare, däribland och . (sv)
  • Элен Кирсова, настоящее имя Эллен Элизабет Кирстен Виттруп (Hélène Kirsova, дат. Ellen Elisabeth Kirsten Wittrup; 18 июня 1910, Копенгаген — 22 февраля 1962, Лондон) — датская артистка балета и хореограф. Создала первую профессиональную балетную труппу в Австралии. (ru)
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  • About 1941 (en)
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  • Ib Bellew (en)
  • Ole Fischer (en)
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  • Элен Кирсова, настоящее имя Эллен Элизабет Кирстен Виттруп (Hélène Kirsova, дат. Ellen Elisabeth Kirsten Wittrup; 18 июня 1910, Копенгаген — 22 февраля 1962, Лондон) — датская артистка балета и хореограф. Создала первую профессиональную балетную труппу в Австралии. (ru)
  • Hélène Kirsova (18 June 1910 – 22 February 1962) was a Danish prima ballerina, choreographer and ballet teacher and is noted as the founder of the first professional ballet company in Australia. She trained in Paris with former Sergei Diaghilev ballet dancers and choreographers. She then performed in companies run by Léo Staats and Ida Rubinstein before in 1931 becoming a soloist with Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, dancing for several years in Europe and North America. In 1936, as a principal dancer, she joined René Blum's Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in which she scored a singular success in London. Later that year she joined Colonel Wassily de Basil's Monte Carlo Russian Ballet as prima ballerina on an extensive tour of Australia and New Zealand where she was fêted by critics and audie (en)
  • Hélène Kirsova, artistnamn för Ellen Wittrup Hansen, född 18 juni 1910 i Köpenhamn, Danmark, död 22 februari 1962 i London, England, var en dansk ballerina och koreograf. Kirsova fick sin grundläggande dansskolning i Paris, och efter att ha turnerat med olika balettsällskap i Sydamerika och Europa engagerade hon sig i Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Sällskapet gjorde en bejublad turné i Australien, och Kirsova fick lysande kritik för sin gestaltning av dockan i Petrusjka och Columbine i . (sv)
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  • Кирсова, Элен (ru)
  • Hélène Kirsova (sv)
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