The Dancing class

Description: 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 sequence the film shows the daily routine of the cleaner at work in the studio, the girls arriving, changing and going to the bar to warm up and finishing with an adagio and allegro. Camera by Tom Cowan and Nigel Buesst; music by George Dreyfus. (Gold Award, Documentary Section, 1964 Australian Film Awards)