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Image Not Available for Students awaiting their 'cue' during a rehearsal of the children's ballet at Sadler's Wells. They are performing Elgar's "Nursery Suite" as their first performance.
Students awaiting their 'cue' during a rehearsal of the children's ballet at Sadler's Wells. They are performing Elgar's "Nursery Suite" as their first performance.
Image Not Available for Students awaiting their 'cue' during a rehearsal of the children's ballet at Sadler's Wells. They are performing Elgar's "Nursery Suite" as their first performance.

Students awaiting their 'cue' during a rehearsal of the children's ballet at Sadler's Wells. They are performing Elgar's "Nursery Suite" as their first performance.

Creator Dorien Leigh
Date1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 14.9 x 19.2 cm (5 7/8 x 7 9/16 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Category
    Object number2002/5758
    LocationNot currently on display

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    Image Not Available for Dignified grace as expressed by two members of the children's ballet during rehearsals at Sadler's Wells.
    Dignified grace as expressed by two members of the children's ballet during rehearsals at Sadler's Wells.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Girls rehearsing for their performance of Elgar's "Nursery Suite".
    Girls rehearsing for their performance of Elgar's "Nursery Suite".
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for A peep into a dressing room at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, England.
    A peep into a dressing room at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, England.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Some of the adult ballet dancers of the Vick Wells Ballet watching the children's ballet rehearsing.
    Some of the adult ballet dancers of the Vick Wells Ballet watching the children's ballet rehearsing.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
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    Two of the girls of the Vick-Wells children's ballet rehearsing. The girls are between 12 and 18 and hold scholarships to train under Ninette de Valois.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
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    Students watch and learn at the continuous rehearsals.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
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    Performing Budgerigars (Australian Love Birds). The performance starts with the team of nine birds under the trainer's opera hat. At the sound of the fiddle, the birds emerge through a hole in the crown of the hat.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
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    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
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    The climbers take a well-earned rest after the perilous climb.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
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    Children from the Bakonjo, a primitive tribe who live in the bamboo forests of the Rwenzori Mountains (formerly called the Ruwenzori Range).
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
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    A Javanese (island of Indonesia) mother with her child.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
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    The "untouchables" resting in the temple, where sun and shade privide agreeable alternatives. This sanctuary is now open to them.
    Dorien Leigh
    1934
    Photograph
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