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MS 8495 comprises professional and personal papers documenting Margaret Walker's involvement in a variety of Australian and international dance organisations from the late 1930s to the 1980s. These organisations include the Borovansky Ballet, Ballets Russes, Colonel de Basil Ballet, New Theatre Company (Melbourne), Unity Dance Group (Melbourne), Roseville Dance Centre (Sydney), Australian Association of Dancers, Australian Association for Dance Education, Dance Concert, Margaret Walker Folk Dance Centre, Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre and the Western Arts for Youth (Sydney). The archive consists of administrative records, correspondence, newsletters, diaries, theatre programmes, subject and biographical files, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, dance periodicals and photographs (83 boxes, 4 fol. boxes).
The MS Acc GB 1995.2505 instalment comprises files on administrative matters that deal with grant applications, superannuation, wages, orders for publications, conferences, and Committee of Management minutes and reports. There are also articles, cuttings, curricula vitae and photographs (2 cartons).
The Acc97.109 instalment comprises papers, audio cassettes and posters (3 boxes, 2 cartons, 1 small box, 1 poster box).
The Acc10.022 instalment comprises a card index of recorded music; published music including Treasury of music for the Australian home circle and Ralph de Boissiere Calypso Isle; publications on music including Music in the Soviet Union: two lectures given by Alan Bush, Ludwik Erhardt Contemporary music in Poland, Boris Yagolim Soviet music: musical education and music making (1946), A.L. Lloyd The singing Englishman; exhibition catalogue from Sound waves, Hollywood Bowl Museum, March 1986 (1 packet).
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