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Zora Semberova interviewed by Lee Christofis [sound recording]
Bib ID 3959947
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Šemberová, Zora, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 2007 
2 sound files (ca. 71 min.) 
Summary

Zora Semberova, talks about her early interest in dance, theatre and concern for truthful expression; her family's interests in the arts; her early professional dance experience; modern dance classes with Rosalia Chladek, the music used and themes explored in her work; returning to Czechoslovakia to dance as a soloist, dancing in Ivo Vana Psota's 'Romeo and Juliet'; dances in which she performed as a soloist; traditional ballets in which she performed; Sasa Machov; the closing of the Brno Theatre during the WWII; dancing with the Prague National Theatre; her salary while dancing and teaching; coming to Australia (1968) and teaching at Flinders University; her involvement in the translation of Jarmila Kroschlova's 'Movement Theory And Practice'; Jiri Kylian; her students at Flinders University and teaching with Yutaka Wada; conducting workshops; her marriage and her daughter; her first impressions of Adelaide; colleagues at Flinders University; Wal Cherry; her involvement with the Czech community in Adelaide; her philosophy of teaching. Her concluding remarks about teaching and choreography; her recent life and health.

Notes

Recorded on March 20, 2007 at Clapham, S. Aust.

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Index/Finding Aid Note Timed summary (3 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 36 leaves) 
Subjects Šemberová, Zora -- Interviews.  |  Ballet dancers -- Australia -- Interviews.  |  Choreographers -- Australia -- Interviews.  |  Ballet -- Study and teaching -- South Australia.
Occupation Ballet dancers.
Other authors/contributors Christofis, Lee, 1948-, Interviewer

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