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Moya Beaver interviewed by Michelle Potter [sound recording]
Bib ID 513088
Format AudioAudio, OnlineOnline
Author
Beaver, Moya, 1918-
 
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Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1994. 
2 digital audio tapes (130 min.) 
Summary

Beaver, ballet dancer and teacher, speaks about her parents and their amateur theatricals, her early childhood experiences and education, learning ballet with Louise Lightfoot and Mischa Burlakov, dancing in Petrouchka for the First Australian Ballet, other works in the repertoire and meeting her husband. She talks about Louise Lightfoot and her interest in India and Indian dancing, Leon Kellaway and his studies, auditioning for J.C. Williamson Productions, going to Europe - especially Paris, joing Les Ballets de la jeunesse and performing with them in Denmark, the outbreak of World War II and the problems of getting from Denmark to England, the career of her partner Gordon Hamilton, Raisse Kousnetzova and the Polish-Australian Ballet, establishment of the Ballet Nationale and how it was funded, working again in J.C. Williamson musicals, the end of her professional career as a dancer, her dance school, her health, her pupils including Kai Tai Chan.

Notes

Recorded on Oct. 13, 1994 at Balgowlah Heights, N.S.W.

Also available online via the Internet at: http:/­/­nla.gov.au/­nla.oh-vn513088

Related Material Documentation includes 1. Background note from the interviewer on the interview itself (1 p.) 2. Two transcript folders consisting of a total of 38 folded photocopies of newspaper and magazine clippings covering articles and photos of early Australian ballet dancers and companies (most clippings lack dates). 
Index/Finding Aid Note Summary available (handscript, 2 p.) 
Subjects Beaver, Moya, - 1918- - Interviews.  |  Lightfoot, Louise.  |  Burlakov, Mischa.  |  Hamilton, Gordon.  |  First Australian Ballet.  |  Ballet Nationale.  |  J.C. Williamson (Firm)  |  Dance teachers - Australia - Interviews.  |  Dancers - Australia - Interviews.  |  Ballet companies - Australia - History.
Occupation Ballet dancers.
Other authors/contributors Potter, Michelle, 1944-

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