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This file contains:

1. Handwritten letter from David Gayle, Founder Director of the Yorkshire Ballet Seminars, thanking Kenneth MacMillan for granting permission for dancers to perform from Concerto pas de deux and Romeo and Juliet balcony pas de deux, 14 May 1980
2. Typed letter from David Gayle giving details of the forthcoming Seminar and asking permission for Gail Taphouse and Michael Crookes to perform Concerto pas de deux, 28 Feb 1984

One typed letter from Lord Londonderry requesting permission to include Concerto slow movement pas de deux and Romeo and Juliet balcony pas de deux in performance at Wynyard Park on behalf of the World Wildlife Fund, 23 Sep 1974. Performers would be Georgina Parkinson and Donald MacLeary, Doreen Wells and David Wall, with envelope

One press review by Clive Barnes of a performance of a triple bill of Kenneth MacMillan ballets by The Royal Danish Ballet, n.d. but 1961.
Letters from The Royal Danish Ballet asking about the possibility of performing some of Kenneth MacMillan's ballets, including Mayerling, Manon and Concerto, 1977-1990.
Two handwritten faxes from Kenneth MacMillan to The Royal Danish Ballet about Concerto, 1991.
Faxes from The Royal Danish Ballet about performances of Concerto and Pavane, 1990-1991.
Agreements with Deborah MacMillan for costumes for Pavane, 13 Sep 1991, and with Kenneth MacMillan for Concerto and Pavane, 17 Sep 1991.

One digital print of Solitaire, c.1960, three photographs of Concerto and three of Pavane

Kenneth MacMillan had been a pupil at the Sadler's Wells, later The Royal Ballet School from 1945 to 1946.
The material in this file comprises a handwritten letter from Sherilyn Kennedy and the Concerto cast, thanking him for letting them perform his ballet, letters from Directors Michael Wood, James Monahan, Merle Park and Norman Morrice. There is an invitation to a Garden Party at White Lodge to celebrate the 80th birthday of Ninette de Valois, n.d but 1978, and a three page Director's Report to the Governors of The Royal Ballet, 30 Mar 1981

This file contains correspondence from members of The Royal Ballet and Royal Opera House management and technical teams relating to the staging of his works by The Royal Ballet. It includes letters from David Webster, John Tooley, Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, John Field, John Copley and Adrian Grater. There are two contracts from the Royal Opera House for Kenneth MacMillan to create a work and to mount Concerto for The Royal Ballet, Ninette de Valois talks about working in Turkey and on seeing the film of Romeo and Juliet, Frederick Ashton sends congratulations on Concerto, thanks for performing Scenes de Ballet in Berlin, casting for Song of the Earth. There is a strongly worded letter from Kenneth MacMillan to Ninette de Valois complaining about 'the disastrous performances of my ballets in Edinburgh', tendering his resignation and enclosing press cuttings, 24 Aug 1960

Two photographs of a revival of Concerto

The material in this file contains correspondence and agreements relating to works by Kenneth MacMillan performed by the National Ballet of Canada. It includes

1. A handwritten letter from Celia Franca relating to Solitaire, 20 May 1965
2. Correspondence and agreements for Song of the Earth, 1977-1988
3. Correspondence and agreements for Elite Syncopations, 1978-1992
4. Correspondence and agreements for Gloria, 1989
5. An agreement for Concerto, 1987
6. Two handwritten letters from Alexander Grant
7. One fax from Reid Anderson re Karen Kain in Song of the Earth, 31 Jan 1991

Ona typed letter from Michael Broderick, Honorary Secretary of The London Ballet Circle, thanking Kenneth MacMillan for allowing Marguerite Porter and Julian Hosking to perform the pas de deux from Concerto in the theatre of the Royal Free Hospital, 5 Nov 1981

Kenneth and Deborah MacMillan stopped over in Hong Kong when returning from Australia in 1988 and spent time with The Hong Kong Ballet. The Company subsequently performed MacMillan's Concerto, Summer pas de deux and Pavane. The correspondence and contracts in this file mainly relate to arrangements for these works, with a letter from Petal [Miller] expressing her gratitude in working with the Company on the staging of Pavane. There is a photocopy of a handwritten message sent by Kenneth MacMillan for inclusion in The Hong Kong Ballet's 10th anniversary brochure