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Teacher with a vision, Betty Oliphant, who resigned this week as associate artistic director of National Ballet, hopes bomb she dropped on company won't obscure work of training young dancers
Teacher with a vision, Betty Oliphant, who resigned this week as associate artistic director of National Ballet, hopes bomb she dropped on company won't obscure work of training young dancers

Teacher with a vision, Betty Oliphant, who resigned this week as associate artistic director of National Ballet, hopes bomb she dropped on company won't obscure work of training young dancers

Date3/6/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Teacher with a vision, Betty Oliphant, who resigned this week as associate artistic director of National Ballet, hopes bomb she dropped on company won't obscure work of training young dancers.
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    ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
    CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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    Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
    Object NumberTSPA_0071655F
    Betty's Boys, National Ballet School artistic director Betty Oliphant with choreographers, from left, David Allan, James Kudeika, Robert Desrosiers and John Alleyne
    Betty's Boys, National Ballet School artistic director Betty Oliphant with choreographers, from left, David Allan, James Kudeika, Robert Desrosiers and John Alleyne
    Eglinton, Rick
    10/12/1988
    School Principal Betty Oliphant, a former associate director of the National Ballet of Canada, conducts one of the classes. school is in five renovated houses and a former church
    School Principal Betty Oliphant, a former associate director of the National Ballet of Canada, conducts one of the classes. school is in five renovated houses and a former church
    Combs, Erin
    1/27/1977
    Betty Oliphant, ballet teacher and principal national Ballet school with student
    Betty Oliphant, ballet teacher and principal national Ballet school with student
    Barkley, Harold
    3/6/1975
    Betty Oliphant, ballet teachers principal of national Ballet school with students
    Betty Oliphant, ballet teachers principal of national Ballet school with students
    Barkley, Harold
    3/6/1975
    Betty Oliphant, ballet teacher and principal of national Ballet School
    Betty Oliphant, ballet teacher and principal of national Ballet School
    Barkley, Harold
    3/6/1975
    Betty Oliphant, ballet teacher and principal national ballet school
    Betty Oliphant, ballet teacher and principal national ballet school
    Barkley, Harold
    3/6/1975
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    Alexander Grant, the National Ballet of Canada's new artistic director, met principal dancer Karen Kain (left) for the first time this week as Veronic(...)
    Grant, Alexander
    11/24/1975
    Alexander Grant, the National Ballet of Canada's new artistic director, met principal dancer Karen Kain (left) for the first time this week as Veronic(...)
    Alexander Grant, the National Ballet of Canada's new artistic director, met principal dancer Karen Kain (left) for the first time this week as Veronic(...)
    Grant, Alexander
    11/1/1975
    National Ballet welcomed home. National ballet founder and director Celia Franca leads her dancers from the jet that brought them back from a successf(...)
    National Ballet welcomed home. National ballet founder and director Celia Franca leads her dancers from the jet that brought them back from a successf(...)
    Franca, Celia, 1921-2007
    7/4/1972
    Gizella Witkowsky: The local-born National Ballet soloist has landed a role most dancers would kill for - the title in the company's production of a ballet based on Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
    Gizella Witkowsky: The local-born National Ballet soloist has landed a role most dancers would kill for - the title in the company's production of a ballet based on Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    2/4/1983
    Nadia Potts and Tomas Schramek, lead dancers with the National Ballet of Canada, presented a beautifully molded pas de deux in the company's annual Ch(...)
    Nadia Potts and Tomas Schramek, lead dancers with the National Ballet of Canada, presented a beautifully molded pas de deux in the company's annual Ch(...)
    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    12/17/1975
    Appleause! Applause! National Ballet founder Celia Franca (left) acknowledges the applause of the company's principal dancers, Frank Augustyn, Tomas S(...)
    Appleause! Applause! National Ballet founder Celia Franca (left) acknowledges the applause of the company's principal dancers, Frank Augustyn, Tomas S(...)
    Dunlop, Al
    2/25/1987