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This file contains:

1. Handwritten letter from David Gayle, Founder Director of the Yorkshire Ballet Seminars, thanking Kenneth MacMillan for granting permission for dancers to perform from Concerto pas de deux and Romeo and Juliet balcony pas de deux, 14 May 1980
2. Typed letter from David Gayle giving details of the forthcoming Seminar and asking permission for Gail Taphouse and Michael Crookes to perform Concerto pas de deux, 28 Feb 1984

One typed letter from Lord Londonderry requesting permission to include Concerto slow movement pas de deux and Romeo and Juliet balcony pas de deux in performance at Wynyard Park on behalf of the World Wildlife Fund, 23 Sep 1974. Performers would be Georgina Parkinson and Donald MacLeary, Doreen Wells and David Wall, with envelope

This file contains Jann Parry's notes on specific ballets created by Kenneth MacMillan, including interviews with dancers closely associated with particular works

72 black and white photographic prints showing Kenneth MacMillan with members of the Sadler's Wells Ballet on tour, at parties and on holidays. It includes one photograph with the Lord Mayor of Coventry, 1953, photographs in Atlanta and at Malibu Beach, Hollywood, on Brighton beach, in Lisbon, travelling by airplane, at parties and at a Christening. Dancers include Stella Claire, Alexander Grant, Greta Hambry, Anne Heaton, Pamela May and Pirmin Trecu. Two reprints of photographs of Kenneth MacMillan posing with Nadia Nerina and with Greta Hambry in swimming costumes, Cambridge 1946

Black and white postcards and photographs of Kenneth MacMillan with the Sadler's Wells and Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet Companies in Blood Wedding, Cafe des Sports, Children's Corner, Giselle Act I pas de deux, The Great Detective, Khadra, Le Lac des cygnes Act III pas de trois, The Lady and the Fool, Parures, Pastorale, Pineapple Poll, The Sleeping Beauty, Les Sylphides and Valses nobles et sentimentales, c.1946-1953. Some with autographs. The five sepia photographs in ballet poses have discoloured significantly

Kenneth MacMillan created the one-act ballet Winter Dreams for The Royal Ballet which premiered on 7.2.1991 at the Royal Opera House, London. The material comprises

1. One list handwritten by Kenneth MacMillan of the action and/or scenes sometimes with the names of the dancers or characters, in pencil with amendments in blue ink. On the reverse of a page of rehearsal schedule for The Royal Ballet dated 27th December
2. Handwritten list of the movements of the ballet, with timings. In pencil with amendments by Kenneth MacMillan in blue ink
3. Handwritten explanation of the ballet by Kenneth MacMillan, in black biro. With a covering page for a fax to Kate Howells, publication department at the Royal Opera House, from Deborah (MacMillan) 5.6.1991
4. Envelope with handwritten notes by Kenneth MacMillan on the ballet, undated
5. Two handwritten postcards and one handwritten letter to Kenneth MacMillan, praising the ballet, from Eleanor Fazan 25.1.1991, Anthony Dowell 7.2.1991 and Jenny (Genista) McIntosh, Executive Director of the National Theatre, 27.2.1991
6. Typed note from Anya Sainsbury to Kenneth MacMillan inviting him to a supper party after the first night, 10.1.1991
7. One ground plan and two elevations showing positions of cameras and changes to scenery required for filming (large)

One photograph of Anya Linden as the Dancing Anna, signed 'Dearest Kenneth, love from Anya'

This file contains:

1. Correspondence relating to possible performance of Song of the Earth at the Vienna Staatsoper, giving Kenneth MacMillan's reasons for refusing, 25 Jan - 7 Sep 1977
2. One typed letter requesting permission to perform Mayerling in Vienna, 22 Nov 1988
3. One typed fax from Paul Szilard requesting permission on behalf of the Vienna Opera to perform Mayerling in Vienna, and Kenneth MacMillan's handwritten fax reply explaining his reasons for refusing, 1-2 July 1991

The Vaslav Nijinsky Medal for 1995 was awarded posthumously to Kenneth MacMillan 'in recognition of your contribution to the preservation of the glorious legacy of Vaslav Nijinsky', Warsaw, 15 Dec 1995. Enclosed is a publicity leaflet for a Saison Nijinsky at The Palace Theatre, 2 Mar 1914, with three colour illustrations of Nijinsky in costume. The bronze medal is in a blue cloth covered box lined in cream satin, and sitting in black velvet