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Interview with Steven Brett, ballet dancer and an artistic director of the Rambert Dance Company, 1998- [sound recording] / interviewer, Bill Stephens
Bib ID 2426212
Format AudioAudio
Author Brett, Steven, 1965-
Access Conditions Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 2001. 
2 digital audio tapes (115 min.) 
Summary

Brett speaks of his role as artistic director with the Rambert Dance Company, the difficulties in acquiring new dance work for their repertoire, use of television to promote modern dance, his approach for producing "Gaps, Lapse and Relapse" for the Australian tour, how the Company selects its dancers, his early years in Townsville and what lead him to a dance career, moving to Canberra to further his career, dance training methods, why he enrolled at the Victorian College of the Arts, his decision to enter the Australian Ballet School, treatment for his knee injury, his decision to audition for the Nederlands Dance Theatre (NDT) and their offer of a contract, life with the Company in the Nederlands, how he came to offered a contract with The Rambert Dance Company as an Artistic Director, his impressions of choreographers including Jiri Kylian, how working with the NDT affected his dancing, the choreographic style of Jeremy James and his response to his death.

Notes

Recorded on April 5, 2001 in Melbourne, Vic.

User access copy made.

Index/Finding Aid Note Timed summary available (6 p.) 
Subjects Brett, Steven, - 1965- - Interviews.  |  Victorian College of the Arts.  |  Nederlands Dans Theater.  |  Australian Ballet School.  |  Rambert Dance Company.  |  Ballet dancers - Australia - Interviews.  |  Choreographers - Australia - Interviews.  |  Ballet - Australia.  |  Modern dance - Australia.
Occupation Choreographers.
Other Authors Stephens, Bill, 1936-
Details Collect From
ORAL TRC 4733 Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
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ORAL TRC 4733
Copy: recording
Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
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