Shona Dunlop MacTavish

Shona Katrine Dunlop MacTavish (born 12 April 1920 in Dunedin) is a New Zealand dancer, teacher, author, critic, choreographer and pioneer in liturgical dance in the Asia-Pacific.[1][2]

Biography

Shona Dunlop Mactavish, St Clair beach, Dunedin 2009

Shona Dunlop studied with expressionist dancer and choreographer Gertrud Bodenwieser in the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna during the 1930s; she then joined the Bodenwieser Ballet. They were forced to leave Europe in 1938 because many of the dancers were Jewish, they were then based in Australia, touring later in New Zealand during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

She married McDonald MacTavish on 26 June 1948,[3] and lived as a missionary with him in Africa and China. She opened her own dance studio in 1958 and by 1963 she had set up the performing group, Dunedin Dance Theatre. She continued to be actively involved in dance into her 80s.[4] In 2001, MacTavish was awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature degree by the University of Otago.[5] She suffered serious injury in a crash in 2012 and stopped driving after that.[6]

Published works

Books

  • Dunlop MacTavish, Shona: An Ecstasy of Purpose. The Life and Art of Gertrud Bodenwieser. Dunedin, N.Z. 1987.
  • Dunlop MacTavish, Shona: Gertrud Bodenwieser. Tänzerin, Choreographin, Pädagogin. Wien - Sydney. (Gekürzte Ausgabe, aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Gabriele Haefs, hrsg.v. Denny Hirschbach). Zeichen und Spuren, Bremen 1992. ISBN 3-924588-21-X.

References

  1. ↑ "Shona Dunlop MacTavish". 2012. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  2. ↑ Contemporary Authors (volume 205 ed.). Gale Group. 2002. p. 127. ISBN 0787646008.
  3. ↑ "Dancer to be missionary". Daily News. 14 June 1948. p. 1. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Marianne Schultz. 'Contemporary dance - New Zealand practitioners, mid-20th century', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand". 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  5. ↑ "Honorary graduates". University of Otago Calendar (PDF). University of Otago. 2016. p. 142. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  6. ↑ Porteous, Debbie (14 Jun 2014). "Older drivers in rear-view mirror". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
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