Gore, Walter (1910 - 1979)

Attributed to Alec Murray: Walter Gore at 'Merioola', 1948

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Scottish-born Walter Gore established his career as a dancer and choreographer in England with Ballet Rambert. He came to Australia on the momentous 1947-1949 tour by Ballet Rambert. In Australia he danced leading roles in the Rambert repertoire and choreographed his tenth ballet, Winter Night, which premiered in Melbourne in 1947. Gore subsequently returned in 1952 to direct, briefly and controversially, the Melbourne-based National Theatre Ballet Company. He returned again to tour his Walter Gore Ballet, which he established in London in 1954 and which assumed for the Australian tour the name Australian Theatre Ballet. He subsequently worked around the world as a director and choreographer. He established a further connection with Australia in 1974 when he was offered the job of artistic director of the Queensland Ballet (which he did not take up) and when he staged his Simple Symphony and created Rip Tide for Laurel Martyn's Ballet Victoria.

Bibliography:

A list of Gore's choreography is in Martha Bremser (ed.), International Dictionary of Ballet, Volume 1 (Detroit: St James Press, 1993), pp. 591-92. This list, however, fails to include Rip Tide (1974)

See also: Australian Theatre Ballet ; Ballet Rambert Australian tour ; Ballet Victoria ; Martyn, Laurel ; National Theatre Ballet ; Queensland Ballet, The ; Simple Symphony ; Winter Night

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Papers of Charles Boyd, 1926-2002 (Manuscript)

The papers of Charles Boyd relate to his career as a dancer with the Mosman Musical Society in the 1920s and 1930s, Ballet Rambert in the late 1930s and into the 1940s and the Borovansky Ballet in the 1950s. The collection includes clippings from England and Australia relating to Ballet Rambert and from Australia relating to the Borovansky Ballet. It also contains a significant number of photographs of Boyd in all his best known roles including those in Petrouchka, La Boutique fantasque and Lady into Fox. Many photographs are also records of the dancers Boyd partnered including Sally Gilmour, Peggy Sager and Kathleen Gorham. There is also material relating Walter Gore including photographs of the filming of Gore's Simple Symphony in Australia during the Ballet Rambert tour, letters to Boyd's parents written from London between 1937 and 1940, some programs and books, and material relating to Boyd's death in 2002.

Petrouchka ; Simple Symphony ; Boyd, Charles ; Sager, Peggy ; Gorham, Kathleen ; Borovansky Ballet ; Gilmour, Sally ; Boutique fantasque, La

Location:

National Library of Australia

MS 9732
nla.cat-vn1094773

Scrapbook of Lisabeth Montgomerie, 1946 (Manuscript)

This scrapbook compiled by Lisabeth Montgomerie contains newspaper clippings relating to the Ballet Rambert Australian tour. Clippings refer mostly to the first Melbourne season in 1946. Also included is the souvenir booklet A Souvenir of the Twentieth Year. Ballet Rambert 1926-1946, edited by Walter Gore.

Ballet Rambert Australian tour

Location:

Geoffrey Ingram Archive of Australian Ballet

National Library of Australia

MS 7336

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