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Kathryn Lowe-Henricks interviewerd by Shirley McKechnie for the Australian choreographers oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 631003
Format AudioAudio
Author
Lowe-Henricks, Kathryn, 1938-2005
 
Access Conditions Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 1991. 
6 sound tape reels (ca. 360 min.); 7 1/2 ips, 2 track stereo: 10 in. 
Series

Australian choreographers oral history project.

Summary

Kathryn Lowe-Henricks, a dancer and arts administrator, speaks about her family background, her early artistic experiences, her initial ballet training; her early academic background; the Little Miss Margaret O'Brian Contest, performing in the film The Unfinished Dance, and performing as a stand-in for Margaret O'Brian. She discusses her early dance training with Bronislava Nijinska, Mia Slavenska, Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine; performing with the San Francisco Opera Ballet, Southern Californian Youth Ballet and the Chicago Ballet; early choreographic influences; and dancing with the Monte Carlo Russian Ballet. She talks about Alvin Ailey; Lester Horton; Agnes de Mille; the New York City Ballet; taking class with Martha Graham; attending the University of California; Ann Roberts; establishing the Kathryn Lowe School of Dance and the Kathryn Lowe Dance Ensemble in California.

Lowe-Henricks recalls moving to Australia, working with Shirley McKechnie at Rusden State College, her work as dance officer on the Theatre Board of the Australia Council; the demise of Ballet Victoria; a review into the West Australian Ballet; the North Western Ballet Guild and their funding from the Australia Council; her role in the establishment of a dance in education company model which became TasDance; the establishment of Don Asker's Human Veins Dance Theatre; the Rotherwood project to establish a long-term plan for dance development; the Australia Council convened 1991 Dance Summit; and her perceptions of the future development of the professional dance industry in Australia.

Notes

Recorded on Mar. 28, 1991; Apr. 2, 1991 at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, A.C.T.

Digital master; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;

Subjects Lowe-Henricks, Kathryn, - 1938-2005 - Interviews.  |  Australian Ballet - Administration.  |  Australian Ballet - History.  |  Arts administrators - Australia - Interviews.  |  Dance teachers - Australia - Interviews.  |  Dance companies.  |  Choreographers - Australia - Interviews.
Occupation Arts administrators.  |  Dance teachers.
Other authors/contributors McKechnie, Shirley, 1926-

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