• Title
  File 3: Meryl Tankard interview by Martin Portus, 21 September 2016
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  21 September 2016
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  1006058
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (1 hr.,49 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Meryl Tankard is an Australian dancer and choreographer. Her professional career began as a dancer with the Australian Ballet at the end of 1975. Between 1978 and 1984 she was a principal artist in Germany working with Pina Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal. She spent six years as the Director of Australian Dance Theatre based in Adelaide from 1993-1999. Tankard has directed short films and worked as a freelance choreographer in Australia and overseas.
  
  Reference: Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  Meryl Tankard is a notable Australian dancer and choreographer who has performed around the world over the last 40 years.
  In this interview she highlights various aspects of her prolific career as a dancer, and choreographer; her childhood dance influences in Darwin, Penang and Newcastle; Australian Ballet dancer experience, and how she came to be a principal dancer at Pina Bausch’s influential Tanztheater Wuppertal; her partnership with Regis Lansac, their collaboration running the now MK Company in Canberra, her emerging dance signatures; her time as the director of the Australian Dance Theatre and significant overseas acclaim; freelance work at home and overseas and her late interest in film-making.
  
• Access Conditions
  Restricted: Written permission from interviewee required for access
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded in the sound studio of the Redfern Community Centre on 21 September 2016
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Tankard, Meryl, 1955-
  
• Name
  Australian Dance Theatre
  
• Subject
  Tankard, Meryl, 1955---Interviews.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE4396894

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