Michelle Potter

Michelle Anne Potter AM (born 1944) is an Australian dance writer, critic, archivist, and curator of historical materials.

[1] In 1959 she performed in a Christmas pantomime directed by Maurice Sullivan and Mina Shelley, and continued to work in their shows for some years.

[1][5] In the 1970s and 1980s, after earning her degree and teaching diploma from Sydney University, Potter moved to Canberra and taught at the National Capital Ballet School.

[1] From 1988 to 1990 she was Esso Fellow in the Performing Arts at the National Library of Australia, and in 1989 was Janet Wilkie Memorial Scholar at ANU, which was a travel scholarship to New York City, where she undertook research.

[10] In 2006, Potter left the NLA to move to the United States and take up an appointment as curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, a position she held until 2008.

During this appointment, she co-curated Invention: Merce Cunningham and Collaborators, a major retrospective exhibition for the New York Public Library in June 2007.

[12] She shared the award for achievement in dance on film with Sally Jackson, with whom she had collaborated on the video documentary Boro's Ballet.