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Rona Bailey Lecture 2011
November 22, 2011 @ 5:15 pm – 8:00 pm
Marianne Schultz – Dance is a Weapon: Rona Bailey and the Wellington New Dance Group
In the 2011 Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture, Marianne Schultz, a PhD candidate and tutor in the History Department, University of Auckland, talked about Rona Bailey as a member of the New Dance Group. The New Dance Group played a key role in pioneering modern dance in New Zealand in the 1940s. Photos and excerpts from the documentary Dance of the Instant (2008, director Shirley Horrocks) were shown.
The evening also included a live performance by students from the New Zealand School of Dance in a short reconstruction of the 1945 New Dance Group work, Sabotage in a Factory.