Guide to the Papers of Michelle Potter
MS Acc10.084
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Michelle Potter
- Title
- Papers of Michelle Potter
- Date Range
- 1988-2010
- Collection Number
- MS Acc10.084
- Extent
- 1.5 metres (10 ms boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- National Library of Australia
Introduction
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn5152318).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Michelle Potter, National Library of Australia, MS Acc10.084, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Finding Aid Source(s)
Please note: This finding aid may comprise or contain descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.
Item Descriptions
Series. National Library projects
Esso Performing Arts and Oral History Archive project (media and promotion, projects, photographs, publications); Keep Dancing (media and promotion, photographs, annual reports, correpondence); Australia Dancing (media and publicity, project plan notes, scoping, design brief, advisory board papers, usage data)., 1988-2006 (File) - Box 1
Keep Dancing in collaboration with National Film and Sound Archive and Ausdance.
Dance people dance exhibition (expression of interest; contracts; proposal drafts; invitations to events; media, curator's articles; photographs; Canberra Critics' Circle Award; education kit)., 1997-1999 (File) - Box 2
Material largely relating to Canberra exhibition; small amount relating to Melbourne showing.
Ballets Russes project (project updates, publications, presentations at conferences, DVD and exhibition for Dancers Company tour, website, ARC application notes, adjunct associate professor documents, media)., 2005-2006 (File) - Box 3
Early stages of a project that continued until 2009. DVD not included.
Series. Jerome Robbins Dance Division (JRDD)
Application for and other material relating to curator's job; letters of congratulations; early correspondence prior to arrival in New York., 2006 (File) - Box 4
Quarterly curator's reports; annual report for 2007; reports to staff from Australia; reports home; material relating to the exhibiton INVENTION: Merce Cunningham and collaborators; material relation to the launch of the restored film of George balanchine's Don Quixote; addresses, lectures and presentations, assorted other projects; leaving JRDD including letters of regret, 2006-2008 (File) - Box 5
Some correspondence not available for research until 2020 (in sealed 2 envelopes within box).
Series. Cambodia
Khmer Dance Project (project plans, MoU drafts, correspondence, interview documentation and reports, articles and presentations); Dancing Across Borders - a film by Anne Bass (correspondence, miscellaneous documents about Cambodia, early drafts of script). [Early work on a film that eventually became Dancing across border. The film relates to the career of Cambodian born dancer Sokvannara Sar (nickname Sy). Website for the film is at http://dancingacrossborders.net/synopsis.html ], 2006-2008 (File) - Box 6
Some correspondence not available for research until 2020