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Dame Maggie Scott : a life in dance / by Michelle Potter ; introduced by Graeme Murphy.

Title
Dame Maggie Scott : a life in dance / by Michelle Potter ; introduced by Graeme Murphy.
Author
Potter, Michelle, 1944-
Publication
  • Melbourne : Text Publishing Company ; Scoresby : Penguin Group Australia [distributor]
  • ©2014
  • Melbourne, Vic. : The Text Publishing Company, 2014.

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Additional Authors
Murphy, Graeme
Description
360 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
It is impossible to tell the story of dance in Australia without focusing on Dame Margaret Scott. The fiftieth anniversary of The Australian Ballet School is a fitting time to launch her biography - she was the first Director of the School and a dancer and teacher of immense vision and intellect. Maggie Scott was born into a free-spirited family whose pioneering attitudes she shares. She has made an incomparable contribution to dance in Australia since arriving in 1947 on tour with the English company, Ballet Rambert. She was a foundation member of the National Theatre Ballet and led a group of Australians who helped establish The Australian Ballet as the country's flagship ballet company. The inspirational Maggie Scott trained dancers now recognised internationally as exceptional performers, choreographers, directors and teachers. She memorably returned to the stage in Graeme Murphy's Nutcracker, most recently in 2000.
Subject
  • Scott, Margaret, Dame
  • Australian Ballet School
  • Ballet dancers > Australia > Biography
  • Ballet > Australia > History
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • History
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-352) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword -- Maggie, the game-changer -- 1. a childhood in South Africa -- 2. the early war years -- 3. Ballet Rambert -- 4. after the war -- 5. the Australian tour begins -- 6. making a comeback -- 7. retuen to England -- 8. a decade of planning -- 9. building a school -- 10. growth and consolidation -- 11. pleasure and pain -- 12. return to the stage -- 13. a dancing dame -- my philosophy of teaching.
ISBN
  • 9781922182388
  • 1922182389
OCLC
  • 884451989
  • SCSB-12811443
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library