Interview with Margaret Dale (choreographer, ballet dancer, television producer)The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History project.Interviewer Norman SwallowRecorded on the 21st January 1992. DISC 1 Side One Track 1NS: First of all Maggie, when and where were you born?[…]
[…] sort of o-fay with how things worked which partly made it possible for me to direct when it actually came to it.But before that I had been assistant choreographer to Anton Dolin, my beloved Uncle Pat, on a film called Invitation to the Waltz, with, Lilian Harvey was in and I was in it too, I played[…]
[…]nd two guided me through that, my designer guided me through that, wardrobe and props makeup, all guided me through. Fabulous. I had Malcolm Clare as choreographer who had done a wee bit of television. I'd mugged up a big on lenses. I still think in terms of degrees and not inches but I’ve even got […]
[…]pt.DS: Yes. And I got Peter Darrell – God rest his soul – who finished up as the Artistic Director of Scottish Ballet. He came as choreographer. And, oh I got all sorts of musical things going.JPH: [inaudible – 21:47] Some of Daphne’s early television stuff.DS: The firs[…]
Transcribed by Graeme Hobbs.SIDE ONEThis recording, is vested in the ACTT [Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians] history project. Jack Gold, film and television director, interviewers, Norman Swallow and Alan Lawson, recorded on the 27th February, 1990, side 1. NS Going […]
[…] to me a great lady that worked on it as choreographer was Agnes de Mille, who was the daughter of […]
[…]'ll hear later in the story, what happened. And what happened was I left school at 16. I then decided that I wanted to be an actor and I I was also a choreographer because from the age of six, I was having ballet lessons twice a week with the show. The dancers were showing me how the American dancer[…]
