Sir
Anton Dolin was the stage name of
Sydney Francis Patrick Healey-Kay (
27 July 1904–
25 November 1983),
[1] 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.
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