Louise Lightfoot

Louise Lightfoot was an Australian dancer, choreographer and impresario. In the 1930s, with Misha Burlakov, she founded the Lightfoot-Burlakov Classic Dance School and the First Australian Ballet. She acted as an impresario for Ananda Shivaram, Rajkumar Priyagopal Singh, and Ibetombi Devi. Her writings on India and various dance forms appeared in a number of national and international newspapers and magazines. In 1958, she published a monograph, Dance-Rituals of Manipur, India: An Introduction...See more

Louise Lightfoot was an Australian dancer, choreographer and impresario. In the 1930s, with Misha Burlakov, she founded the Lightfoot-Burlakov Classic Dance School and the First Australian Ballet. She acted as an impresario for Ananda Shivaram, Rajkumar Priyagopal Singh, and Ibetombi Devi. Her writings on India and various dance forms appeared in a number of national and international newspapers and magazines. In 1958, she published a monograph, Dance-Rituals of Manipur, India: An Introduction to "Meitei Jagoi" and in 1960 released an album titled Ritual Music of Manipur.Amit Sarwal is an Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia. He is also the Founding Convenor of the Australia-India Interdisciplinary Research Network and a Producer with SBS Radio Hindi. He was an Honorary Associate Professor (Visiting) of RMIT University, Australia, an Endeavour Asia Fellow at Monash University, Australia, and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delhi, India. His research papers on Indian dance in Australia have appeared in prominent journals such as Dance Chronicle, Dance Research, and South Asian Popular Culture. He is the author of Labels and Locations (2015) and South Asian Diaspora Narratives (2016). See less