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Kenneth MacMillan created this three-act ballet for The Royal Ballet as part of the celebrations to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Company. Isadora premiered at the Royal Opera House on 30 Apr 1981. Gillian Freeman prepared the scenario and draft script, Mary Miller selected passages of Isadora Duncan's words from her own writings, with further excerpts taken from publications on Isadora Duncan.

Material relates to the life and career of Isadora Duncan and to content for the programme for the first performance of the ballet at the Royal Opera House. It comprises:

1. Typed letter from Genevieve Oswald, Curator of the Dance Collection at the New York Public Library confirming that there is no known recording of the voice of Isadora Duncan. Signed and dated 6 Nov 1980
2. Index card with handwritten note: William Bolitho In one of his books an excellent piece on Isadora Duncan. Unsigned and undated
3. Four page catalogue for an exhibition tracing the history of the Duncan Family, held at the Archives for the Performing Arts, San Francisco, and opening on 26 May 1977 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Isadora Duncan. Typed on blue paper, two pages folded, with illustrations
4. Programme for A Centenary Tribute to Raymond and Isadora Duncan, an exhibition by and about the Duncans, collected by Ligoa Duncan, a Presentation of the Ukranian Institute of America. The programme includes details of the opening night performance. Booklet of eight pages, endpapers of blue onion paper and card covers, illustrated with black and white photographs. With handwritten notes on the covers, some by Kenneth MacMillan
5. Photocopy of a press-cutting speculating on whether Kenneth MacMillan is about to create a new full-length ballet for Lynn Seymour who is returning to The Royal Ballet, Evening Standard 21 Nov 1979
6. Black and white photograph of Isadora Duncan dancing in Greece. Photograph courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, undated
7. Four typed pages of an article, Isadora by Gillian Freeman, describing working on the scenario for the ballet with Kenneth MacMillan
8. Photocopy of the cast list for the programme at the Royal Opera House, with some corrections and notes from Janet Judd, Press Officer for The Royal Ballet, to Kenneth MacMillan
9. Photocopy of five typed pages of a programme note, Isadora: A Brief Life by Gillian Freeman, giving a brief biography of Isadora Duncan
10. Photocopy of three typed pages of a programme note, Isadora: Spirit of the Age? by Edward Thorpe, considering Isadora's character and art in relation to the artistic and social movements of the period
11. Photocopy of two typed pages of a programme note, Music Notes for Isadora, Richard Rodney Bennett, by Barry Wordsworth, with a covering note from Janet Judd, Press Officer for The Royal Ballet
12. Photocopy of seven typed pages of a programme note, Kenneth MacMillan Principal Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, by Mary Clarke, giving a biography of Kenneth MacMillan with details of his most significant ballets, longer than the note printed in the programme
13. Photocopy of a page from The Daily Mail 21 Apr 1913, reporting the death by drowning of Isadora's two children, inscribed on the reverse 'For Kenneth - with love - Mary [Miller] x' (large)