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Foreword by Graeme Murphy.
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 countrys 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 Murphys Nutcracker, most recently in 2000.
Michelle Potter is a dance writer, historian and curator with a doctorate in Art History and Dance History from the Australian National University. She is the recipient of two Australian Dance Awards: Services to Dance in 2003 and Outstanding Achievement in Dance on Film in 2001.
Graeme Murphy AO, a student of Dame Margaret Scott, has been at the forefront of Australian and international dance as a choreographer and director for nearly four decades.
A fascinating multi-faceted read, not least for its great insight into Australia during the 1940s. Launceston Examiner
A valuable addition to our dance history. Dance Australia
Impeccably researched...a fascinating biography of a major luminary. Sydney Arts Guide
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CHAPTER 1. A CHILDHOOD IN SOUTH AFRICA
Dame Margaret Scott interviewed by Michelle Potter, 56 April 1993, National Libraryof Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection, TRC 2928. Unless otherwise indicated,all quotes from Margaret Scott throughout this book are from this interview.
For a brief account of the 1922 strike see Eric Rosenthal, Gold! Gold! Gold! TheJohannesburg Gold Rush (London: Macmillan, 1970), pp. 347348.
Details of William Scotts life are contained in a letter dated 8 June 1992 fromHuw M. Jones to Barbara Scott, collection of Margaret Scott. The letter gives hisplace of birth as Eckford, Borders, Scotland, although Borders was not created until1975 when four former counties, including Roxburghshire, were merged.
A Gallant Lady. Death of Mrs Scott, undated, unidentified newspaper clipping,collection of Margaret Scott.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 12 March 2014.
John Douglas Scott, Diary from 3 May 1917 to January 1918, entry for 18 August1917, collection of Margaret Scott.
Ibid., entry for 16 November 1917.
I am deeply indebted to David Sumray for his research into the background of theScott family in England, especially for his contacts with the Bedford Modern Schooland for his research into John Douglas Scotts war records.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 30 June 2014.
John Douglas Scott, Diaryholiday 1922, entry for 29 July 1922, collectionof Dame Margaret Scott. Bethal is a farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Helen Suzman, In No Uncertain Terms (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993), p. 1.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 9 December 2013.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 17 February 2014.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 11 December 2013.
Peter Robb, Maggies War: A Chapter in the Life of a Ballet Legend, The Monthly,March 2011, p. 54.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 9 December 2013.
, accessed 25 November 2013.
Arnold Benjamin, Lost Johannesburg (Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa, 1979),p. [ix].
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 11 December 2013.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 30 June 2014.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 9 December 2013.
Marina Grut, The History of Ballet in South Africa (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau,1981), p. 160; and Human Sciences Research Council, Women Marching into the 21stCentury (South Africa: HSRC Press, 2000), p. 131. The Royal Academy of Dancing changedits name to Royal Academy of Dance in 2000. I have used the earlier version of thename as used at the time of Margaret Scotts experiences as a student, and lateras a teacher.
The history of the Ren Blum company is documented in Judith Chazin-Bennahumsbook, Ren Blum and the Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life (New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2011).
Notepaper from the Conmee Stickells Studios of Dancing, collection of MargaretScott.
S. A. Dance Festival, 1939, examiners report for Competitor 10, collectionof Margaret Scott.
Kathleen Danetree, Down South. Experiences of a R.A.D. Examination Tour. 1SouthAfrica, the Dancing Times, January 1940, pp. 210211.
, accessed 13 December 2013.
CHAPTER 2. THE EARLY WAR YEARS
Vic-Wells Ballet, the Dancing Times, April 1941, p. 374.
Trooper A. H. Franks, Ballet for the troops, the Dancing Times, May 1941, p.441.
Ibid.
Tyrone Guthrie, A Life in the Theatre (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960), p. 199.
Ibid., p. 197.
Program (undated) for a performance by the Sadlers Wells Ballet at the New Theatre,National Library of Australia, Papers of Peggy van Praagh, Acc06/92/1.
The sitter out, the Dancing Times, January 1942, p. 194.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 11 December 2013.
Lionel Bradley, Ballet Bulletins 19411947, unpublished notebooks, unpaginated,Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Theatre and Performance, bulletin of 15OctoberOctober 25 1941. Lionel Bradleys Ballet Bulletins are quoted by kind permissionof Mrs Christine Angel. (Bradleys bulletins are dated using various arrangementsof days and months. I have kept his idiosyncratic system in my references.)
Margot Fonteyn, Margot Fonteyn: Autobiography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976),p. 80.
CHAPTER 3. BALLET RAMBERT
Charles Landstone, Off-stage: A Personal Record of the First Twelve Years of StateSponsored Drama in Great Britain (London: Elek, 1953), p. 61.
Brigitte Kelly, Mim: A Personal Memoir of Marie Rambert (Alton: Dance Books,2009), p. 132.
Lionel Bradley, Ballevaria Miscellanea 19371947, unpublished diaries, unpaginated,Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Theatre and Performance, entry for 19 October1941. Lionel Bradleys Ballevaria Miscellanea are quoted by kind permission of MrsChristine Angel.
Bradley, Ballet Bulletins, bulletin of 18 FebruaryMarch 16 1942.
The sitter out, the Dancing Times, April 1942, p. 339.
Bradley, Ballet Bulletins, bulletin of 18 FebruaryMarch 16 1942.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 30 June 2014.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 17 February 2014.
Ibid.
Landstone, Off-stage, p. 61.
Ballet for factory workers: first night at north-east hostel, unidentified,undated newspaper clipping (reprinted from the Yorkshire Post, 8 April 1943), collectionof Margaret Scott.
Bradley, Ballet Bulletins, bulletins of 11 MarchApril 3 1943, and 7 MarchMarch21 1944.
Bradley, Ballevaria Miscellanea, entry for 16 May 1943.
Margaret Scott, producer Peter Campbell, interviewer James Murdoch, AustraliaCouncil Archival Film Series, December 1990, National Film and Sound Archive, titleno: 290288.
Jeffrey Rumble, A Brockwell Boy: Recollections of Times in Brockwell Park, HerneHill, London SE24 (London: Herne Hill Society, 2000), p. 33.
The sitter out, the Dancing Times, August 1943, p. 498.
Bradley, Ballet Bulletins, bulletin of 1126 June 1943.
Lionel Bradley, Letter to the editor, the Dancing Times, October 1943, p. 24.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 9 December 2013.
Telephone conversation with Margaret Scott, 9 July 2014.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 12 March 2014.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, Melbourne, 30 June 2014.
Margaret Scott, National Film and Sound Archive, title no. 290288.
Ibid.
Bradley, Ballet Bulletins, bulletins of 9 September14 October 1944, and 15 AugustSeptember7 1944.
A.R.P. Recommendations to our Patrons, Program for Ballet Rambert performance,16 August 1944, Rambert Archive, London, folder 1944 14 August23 September, HammersmithLyric Theatre.
Bradley, Ballet Bulletins, bulletin of 9 September to 14 October 1944.
Ibid., bulletin of 716 December 1944.
Conversation with Margaret Scott, 24 June 2014.
Marie Rambert, Quicksilver: An Autobiography(London: Macmillan, 1972), p. 177.
CHAPTER 4. AFTER THE WAR
Bradley, Ballet Bulletins, bulletin of 14 OctoberNovember 6 1946.
Fernau Hall, Ballet (London: The Bodley Head, 1947), p. 35.
Bradley, Ballet Bulletins, bulletin of 14 AugustSeptember 11 1943.
Mary Clarke, Dancers of Mercury: The Story of Ballet Rambert (London: A &C Black, 1962), p. 144.
Letter dated 2 January 1946 from Margaret Scott to John, Marjorie and BarbaraScott, collection of Margaret Scott.
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