From child stars to lost theatres: capturing our ephemeral history of live performance
- Written by Gillian Arrighi, Senior Lecturer in Creative and Performing Arts, University of Newcastle
Ivy Emms with the man she married, Jack Bent, on a music catalogue for the song Just a Ray of Sunlight. After performing patriotic songs as a child in popular pantomimes, Emms later worked as a choreographer at Melbourne’s Tivoli Theatre.NLA
In 1825, Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld watched an Aboriginal Dance of Welcome at Newcastle’s East...
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