Australia Dancing - Outlaw, The (1951

Outlaw, The (1951 - )

Photographer unknown: Dorothy Stevenson (centre) and artists of the Borovansky Ballet in a scene from Edouard Borovansky's 'The Outlaw', 1951

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Edouard Borovansky's two act ballet The Outlaw, with a commissioned score from Verdon Williams and designs by William Constable, premiered in Sydney at the Empire Theatre on 18 May 1951. Based on the legend of the bushranger Ned Kelly, the work was Borovansky's third ballet with an Australian theme, following on from his Terra Australis of 1946 and The Black Swan of 1949. It was part of the company's jubilee season and programs refer to the company as the Borovansky Jubilee Ballet. The cast was led by Paul Grinwis as Ned, Kathleen Gorham as Ned's girlfriend Miss X, Miro Zloch as Joe, Charles Boyd as Don, Dorothy Stevenson as the Hotel Proprietess and Paul Hammond as the Policeman.

The libretto for The Outlaw was written by Borovansky and in program notes he explained: 'Its aim is simply to present something of the essence of [Ned Kelly's] life and career, based on the spectacular scenes when he eventually came to disaster at Glenrowan'. The ballet had a prologue, which was written by Clive Turnbull and spoken by John Auld.

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