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A short clip of Alexander Grant dancing;
La Fille studio rehearsal with Hungarian National Ballet Company and Alexander Grant (Nov 2010);
NZ on Screen
Our Stars of Ballet
1959
The film follows Alexander Grant and Rowena Jackson's visit to Wellington with the Royal Ballet in 1959; Jackson picnics by the harbour with dancer husband Philip Chatfield, while Grant visits Mt Victoria. The film ends with Jackson performing her famed multiple fouttés en tournant, for which she held the world record in 1959.









