Barry Kitcher interviewed by Michelle Potter in the Esso Performing Arts collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 384555
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Kitcher, Barry, 1930-2019, interviewer
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1994 Aug. 15
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 148 min.)
- Series:
- Esso Performing Arts collection.
- Summary:
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Barry Kitcher, a dancer and theatre manager, discusses his career as a dancer with the Borovansky and the Australian Ballets. He begins with an account of the reunions of ex-Borovansky dancers that he has organised and goes on to talk about his early dancing experiences. He discusses his career with the Borovansky Ballet and gives his recollections of Xenia and Edouard Borovansky. He talks at length about touring witht he Borovansky Ballet and mentions some of the leading dancers including especially Kathleen Gorham. He speaks about Borovansky's death and the nature of the company after that event. He then discusses his career with the Australian Ballet speaking in particular about his role as the Lyrebird Robert Helpmann's ballet The Display and about the company's first artistic director, Peggy van Praagh.
- Notes:
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (typescript, 53 leaves) available.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Potter, Michelle, 1944-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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- Until 2064 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1994
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