Dossier 7 - Season 1985-1986

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RAD/2/MAC/7/2/7

Titre

Season 1985-1986

Date(s)

  • 1985-1986 (Création/Production)

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Two typed booklets, two telegrams, five office memos, five typed letters, one Gala menu, 33 typed pages, two pages of photocopy and one airline ticket

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Nom du producteur

MacMillan, Kenneth
(1929-12-11 - 1992-10-29)

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Kenneth MacMillan was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and began ballet classes in Retford, England, in 1940. He joined the Sadler's Wells Ballet School in 1944 and later the Sadler's Wells Ballet but gave up dancing for choreography partly due to crippling stage fright. His first choreographic work was Somnambulism, created for the Sadler's Wells Ballet Choreographic Group in 1953 and he created works for both Royal Ballet companies throughout his career. He created significant works for The Stuttgart Ballet and his works are danced by ballet companies world-wide. He has also created work for television and cinema.
Kenneth MacMillan was Director of the Deutsche Oper Ballet in Berlin from 1966 to 1969, Artistic Director of The Royal Ballet from 1970 to 1977 and its Principal Chroreographer from 1977 until his death. He was also Associate Director of American Ballet Theatre from 1984 to 1989, and Artistic Associate of the Houston Ballet from 1989 to 1992.
Kenneth MacMillan was knighted in 1983, and he received honorary degrees from the University of Edinburgh (1976) and the Royal College of Art (1992). His awards include the Evening Standard Ballet Award (1979); Society of West End Theatre Ballet Award, 1980 and 1983; and, posthumously, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production in 1993 for The Judas Tree; the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 1993; and the Tony Award for Best Choreography in 1994 for Carousel

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American Ballet Theatre

Histoire administrative

Dépôt

Royal Academy of Dance

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In Kenneth MacMillan's second season as Artistic Associate, he created a new one-act ballet for the Company, Requiem to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The material in this file includes references to that work and to his one-act version of Anastasia, that was also performed that season. It includes

  1. Two copies of a staple bound typed booklet American Ballet Theatre National Tour 1985-1986, giving details of venues, travel arrangements, performances and doctors in each tour city, 16.12.1985-25.8.1986, one annotated with a breakdown of the music and singers for Requiem by Kenneth MacMillan in pencil on the back cover
  2. General administrative material including Personnel Contact List, the Company list for the Metropolitan Opera House season, cast lists for Romeo and Juliet in Washington and New York, details of costume fittings, draft programme proposal, itinerary and flight schedule, calendar schedule grid for 1985-1986 season, cast list for Wolf Trap season with covering letter, and 1986 production budget
  3. Gala menu for first night of Requiem
  4. Correspondence including to Deborah MacMillan concerning her costume jewellery that was copied for Anastasia

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Access to some material in this file is at the discretion of the Archives and Records Manager

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          The Personnel Contact list contains names and addresses

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