| LC control no. | no 96059794 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Harper, Peggy |
| Variant(s) | Harper, Margaret Carlyle |
| Associated country | South Africa Great Britain England Nigeria |
| Located | Cambridge (England) |
| Birth date | 1923-06-02 |
| Death date | 2009-04-04 |
| Place of birth | Bloemfontein (South Africa) |
| Field of activity | Tiv (African people) Women, Tiv Dance--Africa Dance--Nigeria |
| Affiliation | University of Cambridge. African Studies Centre University of Ibadan. Institute of African Studies University of Ife. Institute of African Studies University of Cape Town British Broadcasting Corporation |
| Profession or occupation | Choreographers Dancers Theatrical producers and directors Drama teachers |
| Found in | Tiv women, 1968: t.p. (Peggy Harper) p. 3 (Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan) Studies in Nigerian dance, 1966: title page (Peggy Harper, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan) inside front cover (film made by Francis Speed, Peggy Harper; available from Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria) Environment & Society Portal (The White Horse Press), Environment and History 3, no. 3, October 1997, page 371: (Peggy Harper, African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge; contribution: The Kwagh-hir of the people of Tiv: a note on dramatised history telling and constructions of nature among the Tiv of Southern Nigeria) <http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/2949.> Britannica (online), viewed March 29, 2021 (Peggy Harper, contributor; location: Cambridge, United Kingdom; former Senior Research Fellow in Dance, Institute of African Studies, University of Ife, Nigeria; author of numerous articles on African dance) British Library website, Music blog, Nigerian music and dance records at the British Library, 23 May 2014, viewed March 29, 2021 (South African-born choreographer and dancer Peggy Harper (1923-2009) worked from 1963 to 1978 in Nigeria, mainly based at the University of Ibadan and the Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly University of Ife), researching traditional dance styles and masquerades; co-founder of the Ori-Olokun performing arts center (or Cultural Centre; created and co-produced creative dance and theatrical works for the stage; teamed up with anthropological film-maker Frank Speed; Peggy Harper Archive, donated in 2003) <https://blogs.bl.uk/music/2014/05/nigerian-music-and-dance-records-at-the-british-library.html> The Guardian (online), Dance, Peggy Harper: choreographer, dancer and devotee of west African culture, 15 July 2009, viewed March 29, 2021 (Peggy (Margaret Carlyle) Harper, dancer, choreographer and theatre director; Peggy Harper has died, aged 85; born 2 June 1923; died 4 April 2009; dedicated much of her life to the study of traditional Nigerian dance; also encouraged and promoted contemporary African dance drama; born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, the only child of James and Edith Harper, who met after emigrating from the UK; she trained as a ballet dancer, then studied drama, visual arts and philosophy at University of Cape Town; traveled to Switzerland, the UK and US in her early 20s, studying and occasionally performing with Martha Graham, Katherine Dunham and Doris Humphrey (among others); taught and created pageants with mixed-race communities in South Africa, became a mountaineer, active in the anti-apartheid movement; in the mid-1950s she moved to London with husband, anthropologist John Middleton, worked as a freelance choreographer and scriptwriter for the BBC; appointments in the drama department and institute of African studies at University of Ibadan, then University of Ife; with Frank Speed, made a series of films about traditional dance and masquerade styles from different areas of Nigeria; in 1978 she left Nigeria and settled again in the UK; visiting lecturer, examiner and workshop leader to universities and arts centres in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and the US; developed Alzheimer's disease in the mid-1990s) <https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/jul/16/obituary-peggy-harper> |
| Associated language | eng |
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