Rachel Cameron
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Rachel Cameron was an Australian ballet dancer and teacher. She was one of the leading dancers in early Australian ballet in the 1940s, performing with the Borovansky and Kirsova ballet companies, and
Rachel Cameron adjusting ballet shoes
Rachel Cameron in about 1933
Rachel Cameron and Henry Legerton in the Kirsova Ballet Les Sylphides, Max Dupain Studio, Sydney, between 1941 and 1944. Photographer Max Dupain
Rachel Cameron teaches Royal Academy of Dance students, c1978
Olga Preobrajenska
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Olga Iosifovna Preobrajenska was a Russian ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet and a ballet instructor.
Rachel Cameron
…learnt enough," Cameron declared in an interview towards the end of her life. She wanted to hone her training in Europe with distinguished teachers like Olga Preobrajenska, Vera Volkova and Kirsova's teacher Lyubov Yegorova. Cameron and her husband, Keith Parker, left Wellington, New Zealand on the Shaw, Savill & Albion…
Preobrajenskaya as the Tsar Maiden in Alexander Gorsky's revival of The Little Humpbacked Horse. St. Petersburg, 1912.
Preobrajenskaya in the title role of the ballet Raymonda, 1903. Preobrajenskaya was the first ballerina to perform the role after its originator, Pierina Legnani, retired in 1901.