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Laurel Martyn OBE (née Gill; 23 July 1916 – 16 October 2013) was an Australian ballerina. In 1933, she left Australia for England and studied with Phyllis Bedells. In 1934 she won a choreographic scholarship from the Association of Operatic Dancing (later the Royal Academy of Dance) for Exile, her first composition. In 1935 she became the first Australian to win the Adeline Genée Gold Medal. Martyn joined the Vic-Wells Ballet (later Sadler's Wells) in December 1935, the first Australian woman to be accepted into the company. By 1938, she was a soloist. That same year, she returned to Australia and became a dance teacher. She joined Edouard Borovansky's eponymous ballet corps in 1940 and remained until her marriage to Lloyd Lawton in 1945. she then continued dancing and died at the age of 9

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  • Laurel Martyn (de)
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  • Laurel Martyn OBE (geb. Gill, * 23. Juli 1916 in Toowoomba; † 16. Oktober 2013) war eine australische Ballerina. (de)
  • Laurel Martyn ( née Gill ; 23 juillet 1916 - 16 octobre 2013) est une ballerine australienne. (fr)
  • Laurel Martyn OBE (née Gill; 23 July 1916 – 16 October 2013) was an Australian ballerina. In 1933, she left Australia for England and studied with Phyllis Bedells. In 1934 she won a choreographic scholarship from the Association of Operatic Dancing (later the Royal Academy of Dance) for Exile, her first composition. In 1935 she became the first Australian to win the Adeline Genée Gold Medal. Martyn joined the Vic-Wells Ballet (later Sadler's Wells) in December 1935, the first Australian woman to be accepted into the company. By 1938, she was a soloist. That same year, she returned to Australia and became a dance teacher. She joined Edouard Borovansky's eponymous ballet corps in 1940 and remained until her marriage to Lloyd Lawton in 1945. she then continued dancing and died at the age of 9 (en)
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  • Laurel Martyn (en)
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  • Laurel Martyn (en)
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helmut_Newton,_Portrait_of_Laurel_Martyn,_1952.jpg
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  • Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia (en)
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  • Laurel Gill (en)
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  • Helmut Newton's 1952 portrait of Laurel Martyn, National Library of Australia (en)
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