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ROWENA JACKSON: PRIMA BALLERINA

Rights Information
Year
1976
Reference
F2436
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1976
Reference
F2436
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Television
Duration
0:32:45
Production company
Reynolds Television
Credits
Narrator: Peter Davis
Director: John Tourell
Executive Producer: Alfred Harry Reynolds
Executive Producer: Donald B Whyte
Writer: Michael Anthony Nooman
Director of Photography: Malcolm Ferguson
Camera: John Phillpotts
Sound: Graham Morris
Editor: John Cooke
Commissioned: NZBC

Documentary on New Zealand's first prima ballerina, Rowena Jackson.

Early footage and photographs show the talented young ballet student and her rise to fame with the Royal Ballet Company in Britain. Contemporary footage shows her work at the National School of Ballet in Wellington where she is co-director with her husband, Philip Chatfield. Dancer Russell Kerr comments on her career and early retirement from the stage.