Barr discusses her family, early background and dance training in India, the United States and England. She focuses especially on her work at Dartington Hall in Devon and on her contacts with Martha Graham. She talks briefly about moving to New Zealand and then spends some time talking about her Australian career. She mentions her work at NIDA, the establishment of her studio and dance group in Sydney and the nature of and influences on her choreography. The personal papers of Margaret Barr contain clippings, correspondence, scripts, photograph albums and choreographic and research notes.
Some correspondence is restricted.
Detailed contents list is available. Margaret Barr Photographic Collection Several parcels of photographs and sketches dating from the 1910s to the 1980s.