Early independent and collaborative projects, ca. 1984-1988

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Component identifier:
Series 3
Content Summary:

This series documents choreographic works created by Tankard in this first major period of independent activity, including conceptual and production notes and sketches, correspondence and cast information, clippings and promotional material. Documents relating to Echo Point (1984, restaged 1989) and Travelling Light (1986) form the most comprehensive part of this series. Also represented is material relating to Tankard's work choreographing for fashion parades, film and television.

Items in this series relating to Tankard's choreography for fashion parades range from 1977-1989. Items relating to her work with Hermes range from 1987-1994.

See Research Materials in Series 7 in relation to Two Feet (1988).

Immediate source of acquisition:
The Meryl Tankard Papers were acquired by the Library from Meryl Tankard through the Cultural Gifts Program in 2003 and 2016.
Subjects:
Performing arts

Contents

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
The collection is partly restricted and partly closed.MS 9940 Series 4 (Files 1-3) and MS 9940 Series 5 (Files 4-9, 23-29) are closed for 50 years after Tankard's death. Access to the remainder of the collection is restricted, and written permission is required to use this material.
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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