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This file contains the draft budget presentation for the financial year 1990 mentioned in the memo from Gary Dunning in RAD/2/MAC/17/14/2

Kenneth MacMillan became Artistic Associate of Houston Ballet in August 1989, the Company having previously performed Song of the Earth in 1987. They performed Gloria in 1989, Elite Syncopations in 1990 and Solitaire in 1991. The correspondence in this file is largely concerned with agreements and arrangements for these ballets and for MacMillan's role as Artistic Associate. It includes a letter of agreement for Manon which was ultimately not performed until 1993, the year after MacMillan's death. It also includes handwritten cast lists for Song of the Earth and Elite Syncopations

Gary Dunning, Executive Director of Houston Ballet, forwarded information about the Company to Kenneth MacMillan, with a covering typed memo 22 Sep 1989. The information pack included:

1. List of the Board of Trustees
2. Booklet Houston Ballet A Vantage Point giving an overview of the Company's achievements
3. Plans for the 1990-1991 season
4. Minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees, Executive Committee and of the Members Jan - Jun 1989
5. Photocopies of press reviews for the Company's performances at the Edinburgh Arts Festival, Aug 1989 and in Houston, Sep 1989
6. Press releases including a brief history of Houston Ballet and Houston Ballet Academy, biographies of Ben Stevenson, Christopher Bruce, Kenneth MacMillan and Gary Dunning, and press quotes about dancers Janie Parker and Li Cunxin
7. 20th anniversary souvenir brochure, 1989-1990

Two full colour soft back souvenir publications celebrating the 1987-1988 season by Houston Ballet. The season includes performances of Song of the Earth (large)

One typed fax from Gabor Kevehazi, Ballet Director of the Hungarian National Ballet Company to Kenneth MacMillan asking if the Company could perform Mayerling in the 1991/1992 season. One handwritten fax response from Kenneth MacMillan explaining why it is not possible

One typed letter from artisjus agents in Budapest informing Kenneth MacMillan that Hungarian Television intends to make a film about the dancer Imre Dozsa and asking permission to include a pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet.

One page from Complete Book of the Great Ballets giving the plot of The Miraculous Mandarin, with details of the first performance by New York City Ballet in 1951
One typed letter from Iris [Law} on Royal Opera House headed notepaper, enclosing a scenario that Sir Fred[erick Ashton] was forwarding, a play be Middleton, 18 Dec 1964, but scenario not included
One page from The Star newspaper, 26 Jun 1958. One side has the story of Pocahontoas - Princess Broken Heart, the other reviews for recent film releases including Ice Cold in Alex

Five pages of Very Preliminary Notes for Lost Boys/ or Lost Boy, by Andrew Birkin, author of J.M.Barrie and The Lost Boys, a BBC docudrama broadcast in 1978. The notes outline the possible action and characters, and end with Notes on the Notes