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Photographs of dancers including Lynn Seymour, Alexis Rassine, Margot Fonteyn, Georgina Parkinson, Margaret Dale, Pirmin Trecu, Greta Hamby, Nathalia Krassovska, Roland Petit and Zizi Jeanmaire, and others, all in costume. One photocopy of a photograph of Frank Frey, taken on a beach in Israel

Contact prints of the Company in various poses, with a covering letter from Catherine Ashmore to Kenneth MacMillan, one photographic print of Sea of Troubles signed in the border by the Company, and two colour photographic prints of the arras in Sea of Troubles

Dance Advance was formed by six ex-dancers from The Royal Ballet. The Company commissioned a new work from Kenneth MacMillan for their inaugural season in March 1988 and he created Sea of Troubles for them, a distillation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The correspondence in this file includes handwritten letters from Susie Crow, one of the Artistic Directors and dancers, to Deborah MacMillan about performances in the Isle of Wight and in Spain, to Kenneth MacMillan explaining why the Company had to cease existence, from Anglia television about including the ballet in the Folio series, a programme from the Festival de Otono, Spain, and some background information to the ballet.

The title is used for the tribute published in the Dance Gazette, Summer 1970, but the content is different (see RAD/2/BED/5/3/4/3)