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RAD/2/MAC/3/1/44
Title
Solitaire
Date(s)
- 1956, undated (Creation)
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One ring-bound lined notebook with soft covers
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(1929-12-11 - 1992-10-29)
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Kenneth MacMillan created the one-act ballet Solitaire for Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet which premiered on 5 Jun 1956 at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London. Lorna Mossford was a dancer with the Vic-Wells, later Sadler's Wells and Royal Ballet companies. She became Ballet Mistress to Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet and staged Solitaire when it was performed by the Stuttgart Ballet in 1961. This notebook gives detailed verbal and visual descriptions of the ballet, with some dancers' first names given. Solitaire Property of Lorna Mossford is written on the cover in black biro. In black biro, graphite and red pencil, n.d.
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Note
Some pages of the notebook would be interesting to digitise
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- MacMillan, Kenneth (Subject)
- Mossford, Lorna (Subject)