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Australian dancer

Sonia Revid
A young white woman with dark hair, cropped at jaw length.Sonia Revid, from a 1932 Australian newspaper.
Born9 May 1902
Riga, Latvia
Died1945 (aged 42–43)
Melbourne, Australia
NationalityRussian, Australian (naturalized 1937)
OccupationDancer

Sonia Revid (23 Jan 1902 – 8 Aug 1947) was a dancer born in Riga, and based in Melbourne for much of her career.

Early life

Sonia Revid was born in Riga to a Jewish family and lived in Saint Petersburg until she moved to Berlin in 1921. She studied modern dance in Dresden with Mary Wigman.

Career

Revid visited relatives in Melbourne in 1932, and stayed to give dance performances and teach dance at her own studio, the Sonia Revid School of Modern Art Dance, later known as the Sonia Revid School of Art, Dance, and Body Culture, the latter name reflecting her shift towards dance as a public health project. One of her students was Australian dancer and choreographer Louise Lightfoot. She spent a year teaching and performing in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1938 and 1939, under the auspices of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).

Revid took an interest how dance might improved the lives of needy children in Melbourne, and offered free dance and health classes to children in the Fitzroy neighborhood. She gave benefit recitals, and published a pamphlet about her ideas on the subject, "Do Slum Children Distinguish Light From Dark?" She created a didactic dance programme on oral hygiene, titled Little Fool and Her Adventures, with music by Gounod and Saint-Saëns. She created another topical dance piece, The Bushfire Drama (1940), referencing the severe bushfire season of 1939 in Victoria.

Personal life

Revid died in 1945, aged 43 years, in Melbourne. Her papers are archived at the State Library Victoria.

References

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  2. Brissenden, Alan; Glennon, Keith (2010). Australia Dances: Creating Australian Dance 1945-1965. Wakefield Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-86254-802-2.
  3. Wilkinson, Kenneth (4 June 1941). "DANCE RECITAL BY SONIA REVID". Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954). p. 17. Retrieved 2 April 2020 – via Trove.
  4. "Recital of Original Dances". Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 25 September 1933. p. 13. Retrieved 2 April 2020 – via Trove.
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  8. "Louise Lightfoot and the first Australian Ballet". Cecchetti International Classical Ballet. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
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  10. "Radiant Health". Auckland Star. 9 November 1938. p. 15. Retrieved 2 April 2020 – via Papers Past.
  11. "Modern Art Dance; Miss Sonia Revid; Compelling Interpretations". Auckland Star. 11 November 1938. p. 12. Retrieved 2 April 2020 – via Papers Past.
  12. "Teaching Children Art of Graceful Movement". Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982). 17 September 1938. p. 36. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  13. "BUSH FIRE DRAMA". Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 3 April 1940. p. 8. Retrieved 2 April 2020 – via Trove.
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  15. "Dance Compositions". Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 4 June 1941. p. 13. Retrieved 2 April 2020 – via Trove.
  16. Card, Amanda (June 1999). "Prominence in obscurity: Sonia Revid in Melbourne 1932-1945". Brolga (10): 7–19.
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