Zora Semborova: Requiescat in Pacem

Dancer, teacher, and exile Zora Semborova has died in Adelaide, months before returning to Prague to celebrate her hundredth birthday. She has an honoured role in the explosion of Australian performan
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Dancer, teacher, and exile Zora Semborova has died in Adelaide, months before returning to Prague to celebrate her hundredth birthday. She has an honoured role in the explosion of Australian performance culture in the 1970’s.

Zora Semborova brushed lightly but fiercely against a few of us in Adelaide in the 1970s.

When she arrived at the drama department in Flinders University to teach movement, we knew she was there for love of an oceanographer, and caught in Australia by the turmoil of 1968 in Czechoslovakia.

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.