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Michelle Potter

AMONG Michelle Potter’s many "significant services to dance", she has been Esso Research Fellow in the Performing Arts at the National Library of Australia (1988 to 1990) and between 1998 and 2001 managed the Keep Dancing Project at the National Film and Sound Archive. She was inaugural Curator of Dance at the National Library of Australia, 2002–2006, and Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 2006–2008.

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