Helpmann
Americannoun
noun
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Idzikowski was also involved with the Royal Academy of Dance’s Production Club, started in 1932 to allow students over 14 to work with choreographers; Frederick Ashton and Robert Helpmann were among the early volunteers, and later a young John Cranko created his first work there.
From New York Times
Unforgettably played by the dancer Robert Helpmann, he capers around the streets of Vulgaria with a cage disguised as a cart full of tempting treats.
From The Guardian
He won Australian theater’s prestigious Helpmann Award for best actor for the role.
From Fox News
It used to be that this festival was a child-free zone, a playground for the old, so much so that one half-wondered whether a cackling Robert Helpmann was loading all the under-fives into cages and whisking them out of town.
From The Guardian
Her longtime Royal Ballet partner Robert Helpmann described the moment in a documentary about Fonteyn: “When she came to the third prince, she had caught such a miraculous balance that she didn’t even take his hand, she just smiled at him. Well, I thought the audience would explode.”
From Seattle Times
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