Arnold Lionel Haskell was a British

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 dance critic who founded the Camargo Society in 1930. With Ninette de Valois

Ninette de Valois

Dame Ninette de Valois, OM, CH, DBE, FRAD, FISTD was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet...

, he was influential in the development of the Royal Ballet School

Royal Ballet School

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, later becoming the school's headmaster.

He became fascinated by ballet when his mother prevailed on him to come with her to see the thirteen year old Alicia Markova at Seraphine Astafieva's studio in Chelsea.

Haskell first went to Australia

Australia

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 in 1936 with the visiting Monte Carlo Russian Ballet as a publicist/reporter, writing articles and reviews for several Australian newspapers and journals, such as The Home, and sent reports home to England

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 for magazines such as the Dancing Times. His book Dancing round the World, published in London

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 in 1937, is an account of his adventures on that tour.

He returned to Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 in 1938 to gather material for Waltzing Matilda: a background to Australia published in 1943. On this second visit he continued writing articles and reviews for Australian newspapers and magazines, this time for the second Ballets Russes company to tour Australia, the Covent Garden Russian Ballet. The Australian copy of Waltzing Matilda comes in a green copy and is published by the Readers Union.

Publications

• Sir Jacob Epstein, The Sculptor speaks: Jacob Epstein to Arnold L.Haskell. A series of conversations on art (London: Heinemann, 1931).
• A contributor of the Daily Telegraph (1934-1947)
• Balletomania: the story of an obsession (London: V. Gollancz, 1934).
• his artistic and private life (London: Victor Gollancz, 1936). Cheap edition. Written in collaboration with Walter Nouvel.
• Felicity dances; a children's tale about the ballet (London, New York (etc.): T. Nelson and sons, ltd. (1937)).
• Dancing round the world: memoirs of an attempted escape from ballet (London: V. Gollancz, 1937). Drawings by Daryl Lindsay
  Daryl Lindsay
  Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay was an Australian artist and member of the creative Lindsay family.-Early life:...
  
  . Published in New York by Dodge Publishing Co. in 1938.
• Ballet; a complete guide to appreciation, history, aesthetics, ballets, dancers (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin books, limited (1938).
• Waltzing Matilda: a background to Australia (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1940).
• Ballet to Poland (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1940).
• Australia (London: Collins for Penns in the Rocks Press, 1941). From the series The British Commonwealth in pictures.
• The Australians: the Anglo-Saxondom of the southern hemisphere: an historical sketch (London: A.& C. Black, 1943).
• The national ballet: a history and a manifesto (London: A. & C., Black, 1944). 'With an overture by Ninette de Valois'.
• Miracle in the Gorbals: a study (Edinburgh: The Albyn Press, 1946). A discussion of Robert Helpmann's choreography, Michael Benthall's scenario, and Arthur Bliss' music for the ballet of the same name.
• The making of a dancer, and other papers on the background of ballet (London, A. & C. Black, 1946).
• Ballet since 1939 (London, New York etc.: Pub. for the British council by Longmans Green & co (1946)). Bibliography of books on British ballet published since 1939.
• Prelude to ballet: an analysis and a guide to appreciation (London : Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1947). New and revised edition.
• Ballet, a reader's guide ((London): Cambridge Univ. Press, 1947).
• Ballet vignettes (Edinburgh: Albyn Press, 1948).
• Going to the ballet (London: Phoenix House, 1950).
• Ballet, 1945-1950 (London, New York: Published for the British Council by Longmans, Green (1951)).
• A picture history of ballet (London: Hulton Press, 1954).
• Arnold Haskell, Mark Bonham Carter, Michael Wood (eds.) Gala performance (London: Collins, 1955). With a foreword by H.R.H. the Princess Margaret.
• Ballet retrospect (London: B. T. Batsford (1964)).
• Heroes and roses: a view of Bulgaria (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1966).
• Ballet russe: the age of Diaghilev (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968).
• The wonderful world of dance (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (1969)).
• Infantilia: the archaeology of the nursery (London: Dobson, 1971).
• Balletomane at large: an autobiography (London: Heinemann, 1972).

See also

• Cronshaw, Jonathan, 'Carving a Legacy: The Identity of Jacob Epstein', PhD Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010.
• Potter, Michelle, 'Arnold Haskell in Australia: did politics or connoisseurship determine his role?', Dance Research (Edinburgh), 24:1 (Summer 2006), pp. 37-53.
• Daryl Lindsay
  Daryl Lindsay
  Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay was an Australian artist and member of the creative Lindsay family.-Early life:...
  
  
• Sylvia (ballet)
  Sylvia (ballet)
  Sylvia, originally Sylvia, ou La nymphe de Diane, is a full-length ballet in two or three acts, first choreographed by Louis Mérante to music by Léo Delibes in 1876. Sylvia is a typical classical ballet in many respects, yet it has many interesting features which make it unique...
  
  

External links

• Ballets Russes: Resources. This website includes a list of Haskell's published articles relating to the first two tours of the Ballets Russes companies to Australia between 1936-1938.
• http://www.rmfclassic.pl/index.html?a=encyklopedia&op=id&id=1577182 (Polish)
• http://enbc.asp.visard.ca/Record.htm?Record=10128246146929464289&idlist=1 (About publishings)