Anton Dolin

Anton Dolin was the stage name of Sydney Francis Patrick Healey-Kay (1904 - 1983), an English ballet dancer and choreographer. He was born in Slinfold in Sussex. He joined Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1921, was a principal there from 1924, and was a principal with the Vic-Wells Ballet in the 1930s. There he danced with Alicia Markova, and the two of them went on to found the Markova-Dolin Ballet and the London Festival Ballet. Dolin wrote several books, including the autobiography Ballet Go Round (1938) and Alicia Markova: Her Life and Art (1953). He was knighted in 1981. Dolin, Anton