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Julia Edwards interviewed by Alex Hood and Annette Hood in the Alex Hood folklore collection [sound recording]
Bib ID 3584614
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Edwards, Julia, 1940-, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Access open for research, written permission is required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 2005 
1 digital audio tape (ca. 63 min.) 
Series

Alex Hood folklore collection

Summary

Folkloric recording. Julia Edwards talks about her Jewish parents; her schooling; attending secretarial college; being an only child; relationship with her father; Ensemble Theatre; acting; Peggy Watson; Ronnie Arnold; wanting to be an actress; staying in New York; Brian Syron; Herbert Burghoff; Stella Adler Studio; studying dance with Alvin Ailey and company; Sonia McMahon; accommodation difficult in New York; fears about Cuban crisis; Kennedy shooting (1963); leaving for England; modelling for art schools; modelling in Paris and Rome; studying dance in London; teaching Lester Horton technique; Kathryn Durham; Gary Cochran; dance in London; difficulties with ballet techniques; hitch-hiking around Europe; returning to modelling in London; her diaries; writing her biography; her children.

Edwards speaks about returning to Australia in the early (1960's); Alan Mage; began modelling again in art schools; meeting Anita Rezevska; Margaret Barr; Sophie Krantz; Orban and Olsen; meeting Robert Eadie; her marriage (1966); her first performance with Margaret in 'Melbourne Cup' (1970); 'Carnival'; 'Lorca'; her relationship with Margaret Barr; Hayes Gordon; Stanislavski training; Margaret's ability to develop qualities in her dancers; writing an article for 'Pol Magazine'; Margaret and her work; Robert McFarlane; Robert Walker; Lou Horton; Douglas; Sue Ellen Simmons; returning to England (1974); Jimmy Carruthers; living in Surry Hills, N.S.W.; teaching in many places; Robbie Eadie; Jim Edwards; her second marriage; joining the A.L.P.; starting her Theatrical Agency (1988); her last show 'Australian Diary' (1980).

Full contents
  • Tells stories about: Punishment
  • Movie about child birth
  • Ensemble Theatre
  • Her European trip
  • Galina Ulanova.
 
Biography/History

Julia Edwards born 1940 in Sydney, N.S.W. She became interested in theatre and joined the Ensemble Theatre to study under Hayes Gordon. While at the Ensemble Theatre she learned movement with Peggy Watson and Ronnie Arnold. In 1962 she went to New York to study drama and worked as artist's model to help pay expenses. She also did dance classes with Alvin Ailey company and realised that dance was in her line. She went to England, studied and taught dance. In returning to Australia she resumed her modelling and began classes with Margaret Barr's Dance Drama Group.

Notes

Recorded on October 26, 2005 at Bondi Junction, N.S.W.

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

Index/Finding Aid Note Timed summary (4 p.) 
Subjects Edwards, Julia, - 1940- - Interviews.  |  Barr, Margaret, - 1904-1991 - Anecdotes.  |  Margaret Barr Dance-Drama Group.  |  Dancers - Australia - Interviews.  |  Artists' models - Australia - Interviews.
Occupation Dancers.
Other authors/contributors Hood, Alex, 1935-, Interviewer  |  Hood, Annette, 1948-, Interviewer

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    Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
    ORAL TRC 5533/4
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