The Helpmann Awards are accolades for live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Live Performance Australia (LPA) since 2001.
The awards are named after Sir Robert Helpmann
Simon Burke has hosted the awards seven times, more than any other person.
Sir Robert Murray Helpmann CBE was an Australian ballet dancer, actor, director, and choreographer. After early work in Australia he moved to Britain in 1932, where he joined the Vic-Wells Ballet under its creator, Ninette de Valois. He became one of the company's leading men, partnering Alicia Markova and later Margot Fonteyn. When Frederick Ashton, the company's chief choreographer, was called up for military service in the Second World War, Helpmann took over from him while continuing as a principal dancer.
Helpmann, c. 1945
Helpmann and his parents in 1911
Helpmann and Margot Fonteyn in Frederick Ashton's Façade
Helpmann and Fonteyn in The Sleeping Beauty, 1953