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The Dancing class

Australia, 1964
film

Captures the atmosphere of dedication at the Robert Pomie Ballet School. Shows a ballet class at work featuring seventeen year old Sylvia Polvolgyi. Taken in ..

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Adolescence

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A Sense of movement

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