Gordon Hamilton (dancer)
Gordon Hamilton (1918 - 14 February 1959) was an Australian ballet dancer.
Gordon Hamilton was born in Sydney in 1918. Hamilton trained with Mischa Burlakov aged 18,[1] and then Leon Kellaway.[2]
Hamilton's first role was in 1937, in the First Australian Ballet's production of Le Carnaval as Moya Beaver's partner.[2] He later moved to London.
Hamilton created roles in Robert Helpmann's Hamlet (1942), Miracle in the Gorbals (1944) and Adam Zero (1966); and in Roland Petit's Les Demoiselles de la nuit (1948) and Carmen (1949).[2]
Hamilton gave Ninette de Valois her famous nickname, Madam, when he created the role of an aging butterfly hunter in Promenade in 1943.[3]
In 1954, Hamilton was appointed ballet master with the Vienna State Opera.[1] He died on 14 February 1959 in Paris.[4]
