Papers of Michelle Potter, 1988-2010 [manuscript]. [1988-2010]

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Papers of Michelle Potter, 1988-2010 [manuscript]. [1988-2010]

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MS Acc10.084 comprises reports, correspondence, articles, promotional material, photographs and notes on National Library of Australia dance projects including the Esso Performing Arts and Oral History Archive project, Keep Dancing, Australia Dancing, Dance People Dance exhibition, and the Ballets Russes project; correspondence, reports, lectures and addresses from MIchelle Potter's time as curator of Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library; correspondence and other documentation pertaining to the Khmer Dance project; material relating to Dancing Across Borders, a film by Anne Bass including early drafts of scripts; personal correspondence with Anna Volkova Barnes, Alan Brissenden, Lisa Bolte, Tamara Tchinarova Finch, Maina Gielgud, Geoffrey Ingram, Regis Lansac, Monica Moseley, Meryl Tankard, Valrene Tweedie, Meg Denton and others; publications by Potter including Hong Kong International Dance Conference, A passion for dance, and A collector's book of Australian dance; list of Potter's publications and oral history recordings; and material relating to Australian Dance Awards, Scandinavian tour, and oral history interview (10 boxes).

1.50 m. (10 boxes)

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National Library of Australia.

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Much of this collection was originally sent as specimen material to the National Library by the then Postmaster-General's Dept. Other material was presented to the Library or p̀assively' obtained in similar ways. The collection is not comprehensive. From the description of Philatelic items [manuscript]. 1860-1985. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225843143 ...

Potter, Michelle, 1944-

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Dancer, dance writer and curator, oral history interviewer. Michelle Potter was born in Sydney and learnt to dance with Joan and Monica Halliday, Ronne Arnold and Valrene Tweedie. She began her professional career in 1959 and in the mid 1960s she worked with Tweedie's choreographic ensemble, Ballet Australia. In the 1970s and 1980s, she taught for Janet Karin and Bryan Lawrence at the National Capital Ballet School in Canberra, and choreographed and appeared in numerous productions. In the 1980s...