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Journal Article
Robert Helpmann: The many faces of a theatrical dynamo
2019
Overview
The book offers some very interesting chapters and a lot of beautiful photographs, but with this appeal to new readers and viewers in mind, I did hope that the editors would focus their reflections through contemporary performance discourse and go further to draw out Helpmann's legacy through the lens of now. Byrne, through invoking Helpmann's long career, advocates to 'celebrate the mature dancer as an essential distributor of historical, cultural and creative knowledge' (133), in contrast to ballet's dismissal of the 'ageing body as a site of technical and expressive limitation' (131). The author takes this opportunity to point out the complexity of Helpmann's relationship with his homeland (he spent most of his career overseas, returning in later life), which must have included ambivalence regarding early memories of discrimination.
Publisher
La Trobe University at Bundorra
