• Title
  Bodenwieser Ballet in Centennial Park [and on unidentified Harbour beach]
• Call number
  ON 247/468-549
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1939
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  414459
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : PXA 945/468-549
  
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 82 photoprints (contact prints) - 8 x 11 cm. or smaller
  Photographs - 82 photonegatives - 8 x 11 cm. or smaller
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For details of Gertrud Bodenwieser in Australia, and further reading, see: Freedom and Frau Gerty (June 2011) by Valerie Lawson. http://dancelines.com.au/freedom-and-frau-gerty/ (accessed July 1, 2011)
• Scope and Content
  468. Evelyn Ippen, Bettina Vernon, Emmy Towsey and Shona Dunlop in Blue Danube Waltz, 1939
  469 & 471. Emmy Towsey (Taussig) and Evelyn Ippen
  470, 472-549. Bodenwieser Ballet [dance outdoors]
• Published Information
  "These days, newspapers identify images such as these as “supplied photo”, but there was no such credit, and none for the photographer, in 1939 when The Daily Telegraph in Sydney published a Dupain photo of Emmy Taussig and Evelyn (Irma) Ippen to accompany an article about the Bodenwieser dancers’ appearance in a prologue to A Kiss From Kiki at the Minerva Theatre on October 1." (PXA 945/no. 469)¶¶" ... four Bodenwieser dancers, Taussig, Ippen, Bettina Vernon and Shona Dunlop, swirling in long full skirts, behind a grassy foreground. It appeared in The Home magazine on 2 June 1941 with the text under the photo noting that the Bodenwieser Ballet was “a most important force in our national culture”." (PXA 945/no. 468)¶¶Reference:¶Freedom and Frau Gerty (June 2011) by Valerie Lawson. http://dancelines.com.au/freedom-and-frau-gerty/ (accessed July 1, 2011)
• General note
  
  Photoprint of PXA 945/468 on National Library of Australia Pictures Catalog at nla.pic-an12114799
  Photoprint of PXA 945/470 on National Library of Australia Pictures Catalog at nla.pic-an20005316
  Photoprint of PXA 945/469 on National Library of Australia Pictures Catalog at nla.pic-an12114806
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823871
• Name
  Blue Danube waltz (ballet)
  Bodenwieser Ballet
  Dunlop, Shona
  Ippen, Evelyn
  Towsey, Emmy
  Vernon, Bettina
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  ballet
  ballet dancers
  
• Place
  Centennial Park (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1074904

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