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?[…]
[…]ng to do with show business at all.LW: What first attracted you to that?WT: It was really my mother so wanted to do it herself, she so wanted to be a dancer, being a very very brilliant lady, she somehow or another got in touch with all the right people and did all the right things, so that by the a[…]
[…]re that I saw, the Coventry Dramatic Society. So that aroused my interest and from then on really all I ever wanted to do was go on the stage and be adancer, singer, and used to put on either Joan’s costumes or my mother’s clothes and work out routines in front of the mirror and sing all these […]
[…] Jamaica, France and Germany. Originally she hoped to be a dancer and actress, and she enrolled in the Max Reinhardt […]
[…] when you left there?Erica Masters: Yes.Sydney Samuelson: What happened then?Erica Masters: After Jamaica I went back to Hamburg and I wanted to be a dancer, and I went to Hamburg. And the family situation was very bad, my father had married again, my mother had died when I was five years old, and I[…]
[…] onto a dustbin and danced! [Laughing] Fell off the dustbin, sprained my ankle, couldn't walk for weeks. With Richard Wordsworth, who was a wonderful dancer, we danced all down the street together! So, there you are, salad days! But Colchester was a wonderful repertory to work at, because [Robert Di[…]
[…] of the Sea , I had been playing a Spanish dancer in that, a Spanish gi psy dancer and I […]
[…] walk for weeks. With Richard Wordsworth, who was a wonderful dancer, we danced all down the street together! So, there […]
[…]cessfully. However, as a result of my interest in electronics and music making, I found my job in about 1970 looking for a device, which would enable dancers movements to play electronic instruments. So I knew that it was possible for something like this was possible because I knew about it, Mr. Cha[…]
