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Margaret Barr dancers oral history project [sound recording]/ interviewers, Alex & Annette Hood
Bib ID 2486053
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Hood, Alex, 1935-
 
Access Conditions Access conditions vary. 
Description 2002 - 
< 12 > interviews 
Series

Margaret Barr dancers oral history project

Summary

The set of interviews covers the history of Margaret Barr's artistic career and her contribution to the development of dance in Australia.

Biography/History

Barr's career as a dancer, tutor and choreographier commenced in the U.S.A., where she first began formal dance training & where she made her first piece of choreography in the 1920s; in England, notably at Dartington Hall in Devon, where she was the director of the School of Dance-Mime in the 1930s; in New Zealand where she was director of movement at the Auckland School of Drama; Australia, in Sydney, 1952 where she founded the Margaret Barr Dance-Drama Group & was the inaugural movement tutor at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.

Notes

Brief overviews available.

Subjects Barr, Margaret, - 1904-1991.  |  Margaret Barr Dance-Drama Group.  |  NIDA (Australia)  |  Dancers - Australia - Interviews.  |  Dance - Australia - History - 1945-
Other authors/contributors Hood, Annette, 1948-, Interviewer

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