Irene Vera Young and Barbara Throsby Young scrapbook, photographs and manuscript material

MLMSS 11937
MIN 581

fonds

approximately 1850s-1976, predominant 1920s-1930s

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records, Ephemera, Clippings, Drawings

9665479

0.16 metres of textual material (1 box), includes photographs
1 photograph - daguerreotype in guilt mount - 11 x 9 cm

Dancer Irene Vera Young (1895-1975) was born in Bowral, NSW, the daughter of pastoralist Arthur Edward Hanslow Carter. She received a convent school education in Wagga Wagga, NSW, and married Sydney solicitor Charles Throsby Young in 1914. After studying dance in New York and Germany, Young returned to Sydney in 1932 and taught at France Sully’s ballet school and Vere Mathews’ School of Exercise. In 1933 Young opened her own dance school, the ‘School of German Dance and Body Culture’. In 1936 Irene Vera Young won a medal at the Olympia International Dance Competition in Berlin. In 1941 Young established the Australian Association of Creative Dance alongside Austrian dancer Gertrud Bodenwieser.

Young’s daughter, Barbara Throsby Young (1915-2020) also became a dancer and dance teacher.

‘Charman’ or J or F Bardsley was a former stagehand and set builder at the Playbox Theatre whose duties at Young’s George Street premises included cleaning the dance studio.

References:
Library acquisition file

MLMSS 11937
Folder 1:
Miscellaneous documents including death notice, funeral card for Irene Vera Young, training certificate from Tresillian Mothercraft Training School for Barbara Throsby Young, photographs, 3 red wax seals, poems and self caricatures by J or F Bardsley, known as ‘Charman’
Loose items:
Markova: A Collection of Photographic Studies ; Publisher: London: Chatto & Windus ; Publication Date: 1935
Scrapbook containing photographs, programs and newspaper cuttings
Photograph of Ellen Gray and Irene Vera Young

MIN 581
1 daguerreotype of an unidentified man

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