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Our Stars of Ballet
Short Film (Full Length) – 1960
He would achieve world fame as the leading male character dancer of the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden. Funster, rogue, villain … and ballet dancer, he has had more leading roles created for him in the last ten years than any other male dancer in British ballet.– Narrator on Alexander Grant
New Zealanders are ballet lovers.– Narrator
We use to run all over those hills as boys in the territorials.– Alexander Grant on surveying Wellington from Mt Victoria
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