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Kenneth MacMillan created the one-act ballet Elite Syncopations for The Royal Ballet which premiered on 7.10.1974 at the Royal Opera House, London. This folder is one of two containing pages of a working copy of the Benesh Movement Notation score in pencil and pen and ink prepared for The Royal Ballet by Douglas Steuart. This file contains:

1. Brown card cover with title Opening with 34 pages Opening Sunflower Slow Drag
2. Brown card cover with Elite Syncopations Nightingale with 21 pages
3. Pas de deux Golden Hours, two pages
4. Brown card cover with Stoptime Rag with six pages and three smaller pages
5. Brown card cover with Bethena Waltz and six pages
6. Friday Night - two pages and two photocopied pages
7. Nightingale - 1 page

Kenneth MacMillan created the three-act ballet Romeo and Juliet for The Royal Ballet which premiered on 9.2.1965 at the Royal Opera House. The ballet continues to be performed regularly by The Royal Ballet and is also in the repertory of ballet companies around the world. There are five files relating to the Benesh Movement Notation score, mostly the rough score recorded by Faith Worth with some later material recorded by Tom Steuart. This file contains the material recorded by Tom Steuart and comprises

1. One ring bound score with brown card covers with Opening Dance Act 2 Romeo/Juliet Changes Oct 1979 and Mandolin Dance Act 2, Romeo/Juliet June 1981 handwritten in black biro on the front cover, with 43 pages of score with photocopies of score pasted onto left page, 14 pages are not bound
2. One plain sheet of paper with handwritten description of townswomen and whores dance
3. Nine small, 13 large and 8 large photocopied pages with grid of stage area with notes and notations