• Title
  File 3: Jennifer Irwin interview by Martin Portus, 16 May 2017
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  16 May 2017
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  1009317
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (2 hrs., 49 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Jennifer Irwin is an Australian costume designer whose career spans 36 years.
  She has designed for drama, opera, dance & ballet as well as the largest spectacular events ever staged in Australia.
  
  Jennifer was nominated for Best Costume Design 2016 AACTA Awards for her work on Spear the feature film. She has designed costumes for 36 ballets for the Sydney Dance Company and spent 26 years designing for the repertoire of the Bangarra Dance Theatre. Jennifer designed costumes for the Awakening segment of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, co-designed all the costumes for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony & the official ceremony commemorating the Federation Of Australia 2001.
  
  Australian Box office successes include Keating -the musical, Stuff Happens for Belvoir, Don Parties On for MTC, Romeo & Juliet for Opera Australia and Ainadamar for the Adelaide Festival. Jennifer’s work has been staged live on stage in over 70 countries, over 500 cities, venues including the Royal Opera House, London, Lincoln Center NYC, Brooklyn Academy of Music & the Sydney Opera House.
  
  Reference: Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  Jennifer Irwin's interview highlights various aspects of her life and career in dance: Childhood interests, studying scenic art at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, experience as wardrobe mistress at Riverina Theatre Company, technical theatre studies at the Centre of Performing Arts in Adelaide; being employed in Sydney as a Sydney Dance Company costume supervisor, the beginning of her long career designing and making costumes; early Sydney Dance Company highlights as a designer before taking on VAST (Graeme Murphy was commissioned by the Australian Bicentennial Authority to create Vast, the National Bicentennial Dance Event); joining dancer Stephen Page in his new Bangarra Dance Theatre, where she remains; significant early productions, land and water-based, and others with Page and others at the Australian Ballet and her further work as Sydney Dance Company Designer in Residence 1990-97; her work designing for the 2000 Sydney Olympics ; the impact of her ongoing global involvement with Dirty Dancing and later, using her reputation for contemporary fashion and suits, with Belvoir Theatre and the Sydney Theatre Company; designing for Opera Australia up to this year, Universal Ballet of Korea with Graeme Murphy, and her last decade of involvement with Bangarra including the film, Spear.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Copyright status:: State Library of New South Wales
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: Download available for research, personal use and public use
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded in the sound studio of the Redfern Community Centre on 16 May 2017
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Irwin, Jennifer, 1958-
  
• Name
  Bangarra Dance Theatre Australia
  
• Subject
  Irwin, Jennifer, 1958---Interviews.
  Costume designers--Australia.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE4674827

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