Papers of Tamara Finch, 1911-2004 [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 799297
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Finch, Tamara, 1919-2017
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Available for research. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [1911-2004]
- 2.66 m. (8 boxes) + 2 fol. boxes + 2 packets + 1 folder.
- Summary:
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MS 9733 comprises programs, cast lists, brochures, pamphlets, flyers, correspondence and press clippings, primarily relating to ballet performances. There are also personal items, photographs and scrapbooks documenting the lives of Tamara and Peter Finch (8 boxes, 2 fol. boxes).
The Acc06.110 instalment comprises a card/flyer advertising the ballet school that Finch started in London in the 1960s, and featuring an image of Finch aged 9 or 10 (1 folder).
The Acc07.189 instalment comprises a two-page handwritten letter thanking Helen Pecheniuk, of the National Library of Australia, for providing information which facilitated Finch to have contact with her hitherto unknown Russian family (1 packet).
The Acc10.177 instalment contains ballet programmes and ephemera, small posters, magazines, photographs and newspaper clippings, all relating to Tamara Finch. The ballet programmes relate to performances in Australia, Britain and France, and include a signed souvenir menu from the 1938 premiere of Michel Fokine's Cendrillon at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, performed by Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. The newspaper clippings mostly relate to Tamara Finch's marriage to Peter Finch. The eleven photographs (ten black and white and one colour) are mostly of Tamara Finch, including in costume for Boutique fantasque in 1935, studio portraits by Batlles and in performance in Aurora's wedding, as well as leisure scenes in Australia (1 packet).
- Biography/History:
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Dancer. Tamara Tchinarova was born in 1919 in a Russian province that later became Romania. In Europe she danced with Ballets Russes companies. Tchinarova first came to Australia in 1936 on tour with the Monte Carlo Russian Ballet and later in 1938 with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet. She remained in Australia at the conclusion of the Covent Garden tour in 1939 and shortly afterwards met and married the Australian actor Peter Finch. In Australia she danced with companies such as the Borovansky Ballet. Tamara Finch moved to England in 1949 and began a second career as an interpreter and dance writer.
- Notes:
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- Manuscript reference no.: MS 9733, MS Acc06.110, MS Acc07.189, MS Acc10.177.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-224082322
- Related Material:
- Tamara Tchinarova Finch interviewed by Michelle Potter in the Esso Performing Arts collection; Located at; National Library of Australia Oral History collection ORAL TRC 3120.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Finding aid available in the Pictures and Manuscripts Special Collections Reading Room and online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms9733
- Subject:
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- Finch, Tamara, 1919-2017 -- Archives
- Finch, Peter, 1916-1977
- Australian Ballet
- Borovansky Ballet
- Colonel W. de Basil's Monte Carlo Russian Ballet
- Covent Garden Russian Ballet
- Ballet dancers -- Australia -- Archives
- Ballerinas -- Australia -- Archives
- Ballet -- Australia
- Ballet companies -- Australia
- Ballets Russes in Australia
- Time Coverage:
- 1911-2004
- Occupation:
- Ballet dancers
- Related Records:
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