File 3 - The Dancing Times

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RAD/2/MAC/7/11/3

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The Dancing Times

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  • 1987 (Creation)

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One typed letter

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(1944-07-01 -)

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Born in Queensland, Australia, Deborah Williams was educated in Sydney, won a scholarship to and studied painting and sculpture at the National School of Art. She moved to London in 1970, where she married Kenneth MacMillan. She has designed ballets for the stage and television and returned to painting full-time in 1984. She was a member of the Board of the Royal Opera House (1993-94) and was Chairman of The Friends of Covent Garden (1995-96). Between 1996 and 1998 she was a member of the Arts Council of England and Chair of the dance panel. She has been a member of Kenneth MacMillan and Partner LLP since 2011 and is custodian of her late husband's work.

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One typed letter from Mary Clarke to Deborah MacMillan on The Dancing Times headed notepaper, enclosing a photograph by G. B. L. Wilson, as the Royal Academy of Dance is disposing of many of his photographs

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      There is no photograph by G .B .L .Wilson in the Kenneth MacMillan Archive Collection. There is a photograph of Kenneth MacMillan with Nicholas Georgiadis and Anne Heaton looking at her costume for The Burrow, 1958, stored in Box 50 of The Dancing Times Archive Collection

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