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Kira Bousloff interviewed by Michelle Potter in the Esso Performing Arts collection [sound recording]
Bib ID 2283670
Format AudioAudio, OnlineOnline [sound recording]
Author
Bousloff, Kira, 1914-2001, Interviewee
 
Online Versions
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1990 Aug. 28-29 
7 tape reels (ca. 210 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, full track, mono ; 7 in. 
Series

Esso Performing Arts collection.

Summary

Bousloff speaks of her family background; childhood and education; her family; her early training and career as a ballerina; her teacher Nijinska; Colonel de Basil ballet company; her 1938 Australian tour; decision to stay in Australia; her involvement in Australian ballet; her formation of the West Australian Ballet Company; her ballets; her life and family in Perth.

Notes

Transcript includes 5 photographs.

Part of a collection of oral history interviews produced by the Esso Performing Arts and Oral History Archive Project, funded by Esso Australia at the National Library of Australia. Project co-ordinated by Michelle Potter, Esso Research Fellow in the Performing Arts at the National Library of Australia.

Recorded at Bousloff's home in Karrinyup, W.A. on August 28 and 29, 1990.

Also available online via the Internet at: http:/­/­nla.gov.au/­nla.oh-vn2283670

Index/Finding Aid Note Timed summary and transcript available (117 leaves) 
Subjects Bousloff, Kira, - 1914-2001 - Interviews.  |  Ballerinas - Australia - Interviews.
Other authors/contributors Potter, Michelle, 1944-, Interviewee  |  National Library of Australia  |  Esso Australia  |  Esso Performing Arts and Oral History Archive Project

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