Explore the dance style of Gertrud Bodenwieser through photographs with 2023 National Library Fellow Wesley Lim.

The Dance collection includes unique Australian dance resources across a spectrum of dance styles.

We hold one of Australia’s largest collections of performing arts materials.

See how Yvette Grant used the Library’s collections to revive the memory of four women in the story of Australian ballet.

Dr Wesley Lim presented a lecture on his 2023 National Library Fellowship research into the papers of dancer and choreographer Gertrud Bodenwieser.

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: The Arts for years 5 & 6 students.

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The history of dance performance in Australia, as with all the performing arts, precedes the arrival of settlers from other nations.

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This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 10 students. It engages students with a rich selection of sources and challenges them to draw their own conclusions about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ struggle for civil rights in Australia.

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Timeline of events from 1901 to 1967

Our dance collection contains portraits, manuscripts, oral history interviews, photographs, music scores, personal papers, theatre programs and memorabilia.

80 oral history interviews with musicians, dancers and others, and recordings of songs and performances, as well as sheet music, imprints and personal papers.

Photographs, programs, cast lists, souvenir booklets, invitations and ephemera relating to Australian ballet, plus personal papers of Geoffrey Ingram and Edouard and Xenia Borovansky.