ELAINE FIFIELD BALLET DANCER HAND SIGNED PHOTO POSTCAD CIRCA 1950 GENUINE

ELAINE FIFIELD BALLET DANCER HAND SIGNED PHOTO POSTCAD CIRCA 1950 GENUINE (image 1/[null, null, null])
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One of my late uncles collection of genuine autographed postcards. Please note the signature has faded and is only just visible. Please see pics for condition. "The Australian ballerina Elaine Fifield, who has died in Perth aged 68, made her name in this country in 1951 when John Cranko cast her in the title role of his hit comedy ballet Pineapple Poll. She then danced in pieces by Frederick Ashton, who adored her exquisite feet. Her formative training was in Australia, at the Scully School and with Leon Kelloway. In 1945 she won a Royal Academy of Dancing scholarship, which brought her to the Sadler's Wells (now Royal) Ballet School, but in 1947 Dame Ninette de Valois suggested she should be placed in the young Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet under the care of its ballet mistress, Peggy van Praagh. She was soon sharing ballerina roles with Svetlana Beriosova - they were marvellously complementary in style, Fifield small, quick, bright and brilliant, Beriosova more romantic and Russian. Cranko's Pineapple Poll (Sullivan/ Mackerras) made full use of her charm, gift of comedy, and impeccable technique.In 1954 Fifield moved to the Covent Garden company. She danced in Ashton's Coronation ballet Homage To The Queen, and in 1955 Ashton made his Madame Chrysanthème (a Japanese ballet based on the novel by Pierre Loti) expressly for her and read more
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