Meryl Tankard interviewed by Shirley McKechnie for the Australian choreographers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 14348
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Tankard, Meryl 1955-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee
- Description:
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- 1990 July 9-10
- 4 tape reels (ca. 230 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono. ; 10 in.
- Series:
- Australian choreographers oral history project.
- Summary:
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Tankard, dancer and choreographer, speaks of her family background; her early ballet lessons; attending the Australian Ballet School; her work with the Australian Ballet Company and Pina Bausch Company and choreographing her first piece. She talks about her return to Australia ini 1984 to do freelance choreography; Human Veins Company, Meryl Tankard Company; Regis Lansac; creating her first piece for the Company; her works 'Two feet'; 'Banshee'; 'Nuti'; 'Kikomora'; her choreographic style; and Australian audiences.
- Notes:
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- Part of a series of interviews by Shirley McKechnie with Australian choreographers.
- Recorded at the National Library of Australia on 9-10 July 1990.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 102 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- McKechnie, Shirley, 1926-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Australian choreographers oral history project.
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