Kellerman’s childhood ballet training helped to hone her precision diving, and ballet was an important of her vaudeville act.

After wowing Australia, England and Europe with her marathon swimming prowess, Annette Kellerman became famous for her vaudeville performances.

Kellerman was 52 years old when her husband and manager Jimmie Sullivan filmed this rare silent footage. She is performing the underwater adagio - a slow ballet dance.

Kellerman was 52 years old when her husband and manager Jimmie Sullivan filmed this rare footage of her performing the underwater adagio - a slow ballet dance.

Ella Havelka was the first Aboriginal dancer to be invited into the Australian Ballet.

The Sydney Opera House’s Opera Theatre has backstage facilities to accommodate a technically complex production.

Children perform dances at a garden party while adults look on. This includes children performing ballet and three children dressed in Japanese kimonos.

In the US, Li (Chi Cao) spots a student ballerina (Amanda Schull) practising and goes to help her. They talk and laugh as he holds her in the air. Summary by Lynden Barber.

In China’s Shandong province in 1972 three Beijing Communist Party officials (Zhi Xue Chai, Chang Suo Zhang and Jie Cheng) visit a rural school where the young pupils sing a song of praise to natio