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Anton Dolin


Sir Anton Dolin was the stage name of Sydney Francis Patrick Healey-Kay (27 July190425 November 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. For many years he lived with the ballet dancer John Gilpin.

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
Anton Dolin at Andros on Ballet
Columbia Encyclopedia entry
Concise Encyclopedia Britannica entry

   
   
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