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This file of correspondence between Kenneth MacMillan and the Deutsche Oper Berlin covers his period as Ballet Director and relates to financial arrangements and payments, and his right to work. It includes his contract from 16 Aug 1967 to 15 Aug 1968, work permits and authorisations, pay slips, rehearsal fees for some dancers, telephone and other charges, and correspondence with a removal company about his possessions

The correspondence in this file relates to the filming of masterclasses of excerpts from some of Kenneth MacMillan's ballets. The correspondence from Lynne Wake is mostly to Deborah MacMillan, with notes of conversations with The Linbury Trust, Jeremy Isaacs and Kevin O'Hare. The correspondence mentions the filming that has been carried out and with whom.

The letter in this file from Lynne Wake to Deborah MacMillan is requesting permission to use film shot for the Kenneth MacMillan film projects in a different film restoration and interview project - [The Golden Age of The Royal Ballet], 31 Jul 2014

This file contains a transcript of an interview with Lynn Seymour about Kenneth MacMillan

The material in this file comprises

1. Letter from Lynn Seymour to Kenneth MacMillan apologising for leaving for New York where she has the opportunity to work with Stanley Williams. She looks forward to coming back in full form to work on his 'divine 'ballet'. Undated but presumably written while with MacMillan and the Deutsche Opera Ballet in Berlin
2. Typed letter on Intendanz der Bayerischen Staatsoper headed note paper from Lynn, as Director of the Ballet Company in Munich, to Kenneth, about the possibility of mounting his Anastasia in 1979, 1 Dec 1978
3. One page handwritten letter sending write ups (not included) and reporting their triumph but unclear where and with what company, undated
4. Colour postcard of the interior of the Cuvillies Theatre, Munich from Lynn to Kenneth hoping that he will create something for the ballet company, undated
5. Compliments slip from Dominic Photography with handwritten note from Zoe Dominic to Lynn, explaining that this was the picture that was in the Sunday Times that won the hear of the Art Editor, photo not included, undated

Lynn Seymour was a dancer with The Royal Ballet and a muse for many of Kenneth MacMillan's earlier ballets. She went with him when he became Director of the Deutsche Opera Ballet in Berlin where she had a relationship with fellow dancer Eike Walcz

Kenneth MacMillan was asked by Studio Vista publishers to write a foreword to Lynn Seymour: A Photographic Study. This file contains Kenneth MacMillan's foreward typed by Clement Crisp, with amendments by Crisp, together with a covering typed letter to Kenneth MacMillan from Clement Crisp, signed Claryce Klimt, 27 Mar [1980], and a typed letter from Studio Vista enclosing a copy of the Foreword on three pieces of photocopy, 30 May 1980

Three pages of Synopsis for the television programme by London Weekend Television on Mayerling, dated 22 Feb 1978

One typed letter from Alun Jones, Artistic Director of Louisville Ballet, asking if the Company can perform Las Hermanas; Galina Samsova requested to dance this with them with Desmond Kelly, 23 Oct 1980

Correspondence between Kenneth and Deborah MacMillan and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association re payment for performances of Romeo and Juliet at the Hollywood Bowl in July 1992