Agency:
Beattie Jordan
Agency Number:
Start Date:
06 May 1897
End Date:
04 Feb 1988
Description:
Anna Beatrice Jordan, or Beattie Jordan, as she was commonly known, was born in Lindisfarne, Tasmania in 1897 to Frederick and Mary-Ann Jordan. Beattie began dancing at the age of nine, at the Stacey School of Dancing in Hobart. In her teens she was a member of the Jordenes, an entertainment troupe of acrobats, gymnasts and singers. At the age of 20 she opened her own school, at the old Masonic Hall in Murray Street. After the visits of Anna Pavlova in 1926 and 1929 she was inspired to study classical ballet technique and she trained in Melbourne during the 1930s. She then spent the next 42 years running her own dance studio in The Continental in Macquarie Street, working as a dancing teacher. ;;"Auntie Beat' as she was affectionately known, retired in 1959 and focussed her time on charity work. She died in 1988 after spending many years in a nursing home. She married twice - at aged 63 to William Irwin until his death and then to Jim (J.B.) Waldie in 1988.
Information Sources:
'Death of Pioneer,' an obituary in Dance Australia, June- July 1988 (p.12) and exceprt from Cyclopedia of Tasmania, 1931 (p. 123).;;
Functions Performed:
Arts and culture
Related Agencies:
Betty Beatrice Hooper (NG3991) | 27 Sep 1925 | 12 Jan 2021 |
Series Created By Agency:
NS2490 Photographs of Theatrical Performers | 01 Jan 1910 | 31 Dec 1960 |
NS2491 Certificates, Newspaper Clippings, Programs and Cards | 01 Jan 1911 | 31 Dec 1950 |
NS2492 Theatre Posters for Hobart Amateur Minstrels | 01 Jan 1913 | 31 Dec 1913 |
NS648 Scrapbooks, Photograph Albums and Attendance Register for Dance Classes | 01 Jan 1917 | 31 Dec 1975 |
NS5806 Photograph of Ballet Dancer, Beattie Jordan | 21 Jul 1917 | 21 Jul 1917 |
NS5807 Theatre Poster Featuring the Jordenes | 01 Jan 1920 | 31 Dec 1929 |
NS1808 Dance Choreographed by Beattie Jordan | 01 Jan 1927 | 31 Dec 1927 |
NS6844 Objects | 01 Jan 1930 | 31 Dec 1935 |
NS5805 Beattie Jordan - Biographical Information | 01 Jan 1931 | 23 Feb 1993 |