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Jim McFarlane (b.1955)
Miranda Coney and Albert David in a study for Stephen Page’s Rites, 1997
The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre
colour photograph; image 42 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 63.9 x 50.8 cm
Pictures Collection
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Rites was a collaboration between the Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre and was commissioned from choreographer Stephen Page for the 1997 Melbourne International Festival of the Arts. It was danced to Stravinsky’s monumental score The Rite of Spring and was Page’s choreographic examination of the natural forces that determine Australia’s ancient landscape. Jim McFarlane’s photo is a promotional study for the work symbolising the historic partnership between Australia’s indigenous dance company, Bangarra, and its flagship ballet company, the Australian Ballet.

 

October 2002 Volume XIII Number 1

A DASH OF HELPMANN

Michelle Potter has uncovered further evidence of the balletomane’s
flamboyance in the Oral History and Manuscript collections

ON THE ROAD ... WITH AN IRON BEDSTEAD AND CURRIED SWAN

Penny Russell recalls editing the travel diary of Jane Lady Franklin, a nineteenth-century Lieutenant Governor’s wife

A FINE [LITERARY] COMPLEMENT

This year the National Library announced that it would be a major sponsor of one of Australia’s leading literary magazines. Aviva Tuffield outlines some aspects of the partnership

REHEARSING THE NOVEL

Jane Grant reveals that Kylie Tennant often adopted different lifestyles to bring authenticity to her novels

HISTORY ON A ROLL

Sylvia Marchant continues her description of the Rolls series, replicated in the National Library’s Collection, that record administrative aspects of British history

RECENT ACQUISITIONS

The Papers of Russell and Maisie Drysdale

FRIENDS

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

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