Subject	Art and dance
	Art–Australia
	Melbourne (Vic.)
	Naturalization
	Correspondence
	Birth certificates
	Photographs
Category	2. National boundaries
	3. World War I
	4. World War II
	5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Author	Revid, Sonia
Creator	Keith Glennon and Rosa Ribush
Current Holder	State Library of Victoria
Period Of Reference	1902/1967
Series Number	MS 8301
Item Number	9916401083607636
Access Rights	Request at location
Country Of Origin	Australia
	Germany
Place	Melbourne
	Auckland
Language	English
	German
	Russian
Description From Source	7 cm., Original ms, photographs, printed, typescript. A collection of documents pertaining to Sonia Revid, modern interpretative dancer. Included in the collection are: birth certificate (extract in Russian); a diploma and reference from the Mary Wigman of the Wigman-Schule in Dresden, Germany, 1928 (in German); a certificate of naturalization from the Commonwealth of Australia, 1937; a collection of loose newspaper clippings; a copy of her pamphlet “Do slum children distinguish light from dark?”; a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, recital programmes and flyers, one essay entitled “Australia – The country of the future” written by Sonia Revid, and her obituary (not dated); a collection of 49 portrait and postcard photographs, the majority being of Sonia Revid and some of Mary Wigman and her dance teams; two negatives of Sonia Revid photographs; and three letters dated 1967, two from Keith Glennon of Vaucluse, NSW, to Mrs. Ribush of Caufield, Victoria, Sonia Revid’s sister, and one in reply from her. These are in relation to a request for further career information about Sonia.
Physical Format	Manuscripts
	Typescripts
	Photographs
	Certificates
	Pamphlets
	Newspapers