Dance costume

Date: 23 November 1984

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1984/5572-F

Description: Three members of the morris dancing group, "Britanic Bedlam Morris Gentlemen," performing on the lawn in front of the Wellington Public library. They are from left: Ron Paddock, Mark Thomas, and Squire Dave Barnes. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 23ard of November 1984. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-029-c

Description: A girl dancing in a long gown with highly puckered ruffs of tapa attached to the back of the waist and feathery pompons covering the breats. Several long tassels are hanging from her waist, and on her head is wearing a headdress of plaited hair ormanented with blossoms of Cape jasmine. A mat of rushes has been laid to dance upon. In the background is vegatation and a thatched building. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 29 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 277 x 227 mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-029-b

Description: A girl dancing in a long gown with highly puckered ruffs of tapa attached to the back of the waist and feathery pompons covering the breats. Several long tassels are hanging from her waist, and on her head is wearing a headdress of plaited hair ormanented with blossoms of Cape jasmine. A mat of rushes has been laid to dance upon. In the background is vegatation and a thatched building. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 29 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 277 x 227 mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-029-a

Description: A girl dancing in a long gown with highly puckered ruffs of tapa attached to the back of the waist and feathery pompons covering the breats. Several long tassels are hanging from her waist, and on her head is wearing a headdress of plaited hair ormanented with blossoms of Cape jasmine. A mat of rushes has been laid to dance upon. In the background is vegatation and a thatched building. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 29 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 277 x 227 mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-029

Description: A girl dancing in a long gown with highly puckered ruffs of tapa attached to the back of the waist and feathery pompons covering the breats. Several long tassels are hanging from her waist, and on her head is wearing a headdress of plaited hair ormanented with blossoms of Cape jasmine. A mat of rushes has been laid to dance upon. In the background is vegatation and a thatched building. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 29 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 277 x 227 mm

Date: 4 Apr 2000 - 04 Apr 2000

From: Auckland Civic Theatre Year 2000 Oral Archive project

By: Redfern, Regina Raye, 1912?-

Reference: OHInt-0546-07

Description: Explains the use of her stage name. Describes how her mother came from a dancing family in Manchester and arrived in New Zealand in the 1890s. Describes dancing, doing pantomime from the age of eight and touring with other dancing children and nannies from about 1920. Mentions shows in which she performed. Recalls going to Sydney at the age of twelve, doing modelling at Art School, learning office work and doing dance training with a Russian dancer. Describes auditioning for Anna Pavlova, being given the chance to become a trainee dancer with her and being prevented by her mother. Discusses returning to Auckland, starting a dance school and beginning to work for Moodabe Theatres and at the Civic. Describes recruiting a dance team for the theatre manager of the Civic, Lawrence Quinn. Talks about their half hour programme of variety, dance and cabaret and dancers Freda Stark, Patricia Over, Thelma Creaner, Da Katipa, Joyce Somerville, Peggy David, Lolita Sullivan and Gay Vercoe. Describes doing the choreography and making costumes. Mentions also working at the Ammunition Company with Freda Stark. Describes the increasing need for entertainment as the war went on. Discusses some of their dances including Freda Stark's gold paint dance. Mentions going into a baby wear business at the end of the war. Interviewer(s) - Anna Soutar Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) (partial). 1 Electronic document(s) (partial transcript). 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3079, OHDL-001750.

Date: 1966 - 1999

By: Jenden, Paul John, 1955-2013

Reference: DPP-Group-0007

Description: Quantity: 48 drawing(s). 3 sketchbook(s). 3 acrylic(s). 8 watercolour(s). 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, coloured pencil and ink on paper of various types and sizes Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Ephemera; other transfers made to Manuscripts (MS-Group-2279) and Photographic Archive (PA-Group-00899).

Date: 1983-2008

By: Jenden, Paul John, 1955-2013

Reference: MS-Group-2279

Description: Collection comprises material relating to Jenden's theatrical career. Includes newsclippings, reviews and articles, programmes and ephemera, correspondence, drafts and sketches and other papers. Source of title - Supplied by Library Paul Jenden was a Wellington based writer, director, choreographer, and set and costume designer. He was based in New York City between 1980 and 1989. Quantity: 10 folder(s). 2 disc(s). 0.12 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Private purchase, Jan 2014 Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at DPP-Group-0007 and PA-Group-00899. Costumes and related sculpture have gone to Te Papa and some offered to Dowse Art Museum - From Ephemera Collection -.

Date: [ca 1970-2013]

By: Jenden, Paul John, 1955-2013; Solino, Louis, 1941-2022

Reference: PA-Group-00899

Description: Photographs, mainly of Paul Jenden and Louis Solino, chiefly relating to a range of dance, musicals and productions. Includes several digitised images. Relationship complexity - Costumes and related sculpture have gone to Te Papa and some offered to Dowse Art Museum. See Jenden, Paul, 1955-2013 : Papers at Library reference MS-Group-2279 Quantity: 59 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 49 b&w original photographic print(s) including two mounted on card. 22 electronic scan(s) of original colour and black and white photographs. Physical Description: Photographic prints, digital images Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - Eph-D-OPERA-Jenden, Eph-E-DANCE-Jenden, Eph-G-OPERA-Jenden: Posters relating to dance, musicals and productions associated with Paul Jenden. See also Drawings, Paintings and Prints (DPP-Group-0007), Manuscripts (MS-Group-2279) and Published. - To Drawings & Prints Collection - 3 loose pages of sketches. Processing information: 2 items were removed from frames by the library

Date: [1972]-1994

From: Thomas, Allan, 1942-2010 : Papers

Reference: Series-5975

Description: Draft, annotated, paper entitled 'Dance Costume in Island Polynesia' and 32 slides intended for a conference, 'Under Capricorn: is Art a European Idea?' The conference was held in Wellington 4-6 March 1994. Most slides are numbered but there are numbers missing from the sequence, which runs from number 2 to number 37. It appears that the slides may have been taken from another larger sequence of slides in order to illustrate the lecture, as one of them is labelled 'SPAF 1972' [South Pacific Arts Festival] and another is labelled 'fig. 17'. Title transcribed from item. Title applied to item by Jennifer Shennan prior to transfer to Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 24 colour original transparency/ies. 8 b&w original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 1 folder containing a typescript draft paper with annotations and 24 colour film transparencies and 8 black and white film transparencies in plastic mounts, some with titles handwritten on the mounts. Processing information: Slides have been rehoused from the original PVC slide pockets but kept in the original order.

Date: 1950 - 1959

Reference: Eph-A-DANCE-1950s

Description: Includes: Australasian Society of Operatic Dancing. Annual scholarship. Adjudicator Miss Bettina Edwards, and presentation of ballets by the Ballet Group. Programme La Ballerina; first name in ballet equipment. 164 Vivian Street, Wellington, PO Box 2617. [Sales catalogue of ballet shoes, model tights and leotards] The Patricia Turner School of Dancing. 134 Dixon Street, Masterton. [Blank invoice, 1950s] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying under 250 mm.

Date: 2008

From: [Posters of around A3 size, advertising dance performances of 2008]

Reference: Eph-C-DANCE-2008-02

Description: Poster advertising a Bhangra Fever / Feva dance party at a Wellington bar, shows a dark-haired woman in a costume (salwar kameez) decorated with sequin panels and colour. Bhangra is a form of dance and music originating in the Punjab area of India. Other Titles - Wellington Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Digital print on poster, 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phantom Billstickers in 2010.

Date: 2006

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0008323

Description: "Jitterati" cartoon strip. Shows Debbie asking Jaimee about her weekend. Jaimee says she did nothing interesting. However, Debbie says that she went to see the 'Real hot bitches' and she saw a familiar red-haired figure. Jaimee goes red with embrassement. Debbie then stands up and pulls on Jaimee's green spandex g-string underwear. Jaimee swears that it is all lies. Tony in the meantime sits beside them. Refers to the dancing troupe called 'Real hot bitches' who wear spandex and dance to old 1980s rock and roll. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).