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Interview with Marina Berezowsky, dance teacher and choreographer [sound recording] / interviewer, Michelle Potter
Bib ID 259837
Format AudioAudio
Author Berezowsky, Marina, 1914-
Access Conditions Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 1998. 
4 digital audio tapes (ca. 260 min.) 
Series Keep dancing oral history project 
Summary

Berezowsky talks about her parents, her recollections of childhood in Kiev, her early interest in dance, the start of her career in ballet, the effects of the Russian Revolution on arts in Kiev, studying at the Film and Arts Institute in Kiev and meeting her husband. She then discusses social realism in arts, her brother's career as a stage designer, profesional engagements in musical comedy, the problems encountered by her family under the Soviet regime, leaving Kiev for Berlin and creating concert programs there. Berezowsky then describes her escape to Hamburg, internment in Hamburg, her escape from repatriation, the beginnings of a teaching career, choreography in the POW camp and coming to Australia. She then talks about teaching, dancing and choreographing in Perth, formation of the West Australian Ballet and her productions for the company. Berezowsky discusses moving to Melbourne, teaching with Borovansky, the beginnings of the Australian Ballet and the Australian Ballet School and her Ukrainian dance group. She talks about the establishment and development of Kolobok Dance Company, her trip to Europe and America, production and choreography of folk dance, leaving Australian Ballet School and her contribution to dance in Australia.

Biography/History Marina Berezowsy received the award: Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1984 in recognition for her service to ballet. 
Notes

Joint project with the National Sound and Film Archive.

Preservation and cassette copies made.

Recorded from Mar. 9-10, 1998 in Melbourne.

Index/Finding Aid Note Summary (2 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 73 leaves)  Summary available (2 p.) 
Subjects Berezowsky, Marina, - 1914- - Interviews.  |  Dance teachers - Australia - Interviews.  |  Choreographers - Australia - Interviews.
Occupation Dance teachers.  |  Choreographers.
Other Authors Potter, Michelle, 1944-  |  National Film and Sound Archive (Australia)
Details Collect From
ORAL TRC 3691
Copy: Recording
Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
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ORAL TRC 3691 (transcript)
Copy: Transcript
Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
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