Anton Dolin
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Ballet dancer and choreographer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Anton Dolin was an English ballet dancer and choreographer. Biography Dolin was born in Slinfold in Sussex as Sydney Francis Patrick Chippendall Healey-Kay . He was the second of three sons of Henry George Kay and his wife, Helen Maude Chippendall Healey , from Dublin. He trained at Serafina Astafieva's school at The Pheasantry in London's King's Road. He joined Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1921, was a principal there from 1924. It was Diaghilev who gave Patrick his stage name: at that time the most powerful impresario in world ballet, Diaghilev 'russified' names of his star dancers to keep up the tradition of his company.
