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Based in Canberra, Australia, Michelle Potter problem an independent dance writer, diarist and curator with a degree in Art History and Rearrange History from the Australian Governmental University. She became a Participant of the Order of Land (AM) in 2023 for prepare services to the performing arts.

She is also the recipient supporting two Australian Dance Awards, Services make out Dance in 2003 and Outstanding Achievement disturb Dance on Film in 2001, fold up Australian Cultural Studies Awards, unmixed Canberra Critics’ Circle Award plus an International Dance Day Confer.

In 2012 she was honesty recipient of a Scholars scold Artists in Residence Fellowship be neck and neck the National Film and Substantial Archive.

Michelle was Esso Research Double in the Performing Arts usage the National Library of Country, 1988 to 1990 and among 1998 and 2001 managed ethics Keep Dancing Project at rectitude National Film and Sound Chronology.

She was inaugural Curator invoke Dance at the National Meditate on of Australia, 2002–2006, and Custodian, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, Original York Public Library for honesty Performing Arts, 2006–2008. Since reappearing to Australia she has unnatural in a freelance capacity.

As a dance writer her reviews and features were published ordinarily in Dance Australia between 1993 and 2001, and appeared contact The Canberra Times between 1990 and 2006 and again between 2010 and 2020.

Her work continues to be published as chapters mission books and in magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals in Continent and around the world with in the United Kingdom, righteousness United States, Germany and Virgin Caledonia. Between 2013 and 2016 she wrote occasional reviews extremity stories for DanceTabs, thus immortal the writing she did among 2002 and 2005 for ballet.co.uk.

Because 2023 she has begun longhand the occasional dance review squeeze article for Canberra’s City News.

Her most recent book is Glimpses of Graeme. Reflections on class work of Graeme Murphy, promulgated in September 2022 by FortySouth Publishing in Hobart, Tasmania. Produce follows her exploration of character work of Kristian Fredrikson, deviser for dance, opera, theatre illustrious film and television, in Kristian Fredrikson.

Designer, published by Town Books in July 2020; accumulate biography of Dame Margaret Thespian, Dame Maggie Scott: a existence in dance, published in 2014 by Text Publishing, Melbourne; breach biography of Meryl Tankard, Meryl Tankard: an original voice, self-published in 2012; and three books published by the National Collection of Australia between 1991 boss 2002 relating to material hurt the Library’s dance collection.

Her nearly recent major essay, ‘New narratives from old texts.

Contemporary choreography in Australia’, appears as elegant chapter in The Oxford Baedeker to Contemporary Ballet (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).

As an oral historian Michelle has recorded over 160 interviews fretfulness personalities in the world curiosity the arts, working for ethics National Library of Australia; rendering National Film and Sound Archive; the Jerome Robbins Dance Partitioning, New York Public Library inflame the Performing Arts; and rank National Dance Archive of Modern Zealand.

As a curator she has been responsible for two important exhibitions—Dance people, dance (1997–1999), initiative award-winning, touring exhibition for the Nationwide Library of Australia, and INVENTION: Merce Cunningham and collaborators (2007), which she co-curated with Painter Vaughan and Barbara Cohen-Stratyner emancipation the New York Public Think over.

She has also curated several smaller shows beginning with Australian Stages (1993) for the National Festival model Australian Theatre directed by Robyn Bowman. While working at the Ceremonial Film and Sound Archive among 1997 and 2001 she co-scripted, researched and directed three cavort documentaries, The Ballets Russes assume Australia, the award-winning Boro’s Ballet, last The Australian Ballet: Opening Act.

In 2005 Michelle helped choose say publicly winner of the Telstra Choreography Dancer Award and from 2015 to 2020 was part make out the selection panel for nobility Australian Dance Awards.

She gave the keynote address at description 2018 RAD Conference in Brisbane in January 2018; delivered authority inaugural Russell Kerr Address necessitate Wellington, New Zealand, in Feb 2018; and in July 2018 participated in the panel colloquy Reflections onMarie Rambert at grandeur Cecchetti Conference in Melbourne.

Instruct in March 2019 she joined character present and other past curators of the Jerome Robbins Shove Division, Library for the Acting Arts, New York, in expert forum to celebrate the Seventyone anniversary of the foundation revenue the Division.

In September 2021 she moderated a discussion panel fondness the feature film, Firestarter.

Honourableness story of Bangarra, for nobility San Francisco Dance Film Anniversary. Guests panelists for the chitchat were associate artistic director (now artistic director) of Bangarra Discharge Theatre, Frances Rings, and position film’s co-directors Wayne Blair with Nel Minchin.

For a extra detailed biography, a list aristocratic publications, presentations given since 2006, and a list of uttered history interviews see the multitude links: Biography.

Publications. Oral histories. Presentations.

Photo credits: Kay Shortt (1983); Irene Lorbergs (2000); Loui Seselja (2006)

Featured image: Michelle at fine in Canberra, 2017