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Press cuttings from South African publications with related programmes of Nadia Nerina's tours to South Africa and her career with the Sadler's Wells Ballet and The Royal Ballet

Collection: Nadia Nerina Collection
Reference code: ROH/NER/2/3
Date: 1 May 1952 - 1 March 1963
Date notes: Press cuttings are dated.
Level: File
Extent: 1 album
Scope and content: Album includes features on the tour of Nadia Nerina and Alexis Rassine to South Africa, June 1952; cuttings advertising the venues and performance times in Johannesburg, June 1952; profiles/reviews from press in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Cape Town and Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), June/July 1952; programme for Nadia Nerina and Alexis Rassine performing with the Festival Ballet Society and Ballet Theatre in Johannesburg - 'Le Lac des cygnes', 'Les Sylphides', 'Shore Leave', 'Giselle Act I', 'Prince Igor', 'Coppélia Act III', 'Le Spectre de la rose', 1st August-8th August 1952; features to announce a new South Africa tour to Natal, Durban and Cape Town, July 1954; programme for performances with Durban Civic Centenary Ballet Company at Durban City Hall - 'Classical Suite', 'Sylvia', 'Coppélia', 'Don Quixote', 'The Big Top', 'The Dying Swan', 'Peasant Pastoral', 5th July-10th July 1954; previews and announcements of a tour to South Africa, April 1955; general programme for the 1955 tour including 'Giselle Act II' 'Cinderella Act III', 'Tango from Façade', 'The Dying Swan', 'L'Après-midi d'un faune', 'Don Quixote'; reviews from performances in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, June 1955; British and South African cuttings relating to the marriage of Nadia Nerina and Charles Gordon, October/November 1955; previews/reviews/features relating to Nadia Nerina's tour of South Africa with The Royal Ballet, February 1960; programme of The Royal Ballet tour of South Africa including performances of 'Les Patineurs' and 'Giselle', February 1960; features relating to Nadia Nerina dancing in Moscow with the Bolshoi Ballet in 'Swan Lake' and in Leningrad with the Kirov Ballet in 'Giselle', September/October 1960; cuttings relating to Nadia Nerina's new partner Danish dancer Erik Bruhn, March 1962; cuttings relating to the death of Nadia Nerina's brother Lee Hardy Judd in London, April 1962; reviews of The Royal Ballet production of 'Elektra' with Nadia Nerina at the Royal Opera House, March 1963.
Language: English; Afrikaans
Dimensions: length 32.5 cm; width 24 cm; depth 9 cm
Condition: Good. 
Related work: Swan Lake
Les Sylphides
Coppélia
Sylvia
Don Quixote
Cinderella
Façade
L'Après-midi d'un faune
Elektra