Anton Dolin (ballet dancer)

Sir Anton Dolin was the stage name of Sydney Francis Patrick Healey-Kay (1904–1983), an English ballet dancer and choreographer.

Dolin was born in Slinfold in Sussex. He joined Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1921, was a principal there from 1924, and was a principal with the Vic-Wells Ballet in the 1930s. There he danced with Alicia Markova, with whom he went on to found the Markova-Dolin Ballet and the London Festival Ballet.

Dolin wrote several books, including the autobiography Ballet Go Round (1938) and Alicia Markova: Her Life and Art (1953). He was knighted in 1981. For many years he lived with the ballet dancer John Gilpin.

References

• Anton Dolin: autobiography / Anton Dolin
• Last words: a final autobiography / Anton Dolin
• Markova: her life and art / Anton Dolin
• Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin: a legend of British ballet : a collection of portraits / with foreword by Peter Williams

External links

• Photographs of Anton Dolin and others in ballet performances - held and digitised by the National Library of Australia
• Images of Anton Dolin
• Anton Dolin at Andros on Ballet
• Columbia Encyclopedia entry
• Concise Encyclopedia entry