Australian Ballet, 1959-66

Containers:

Box 12

Component identifier:

File 67_73

Content Summary:

The series of folders includes files on the original ballet committee, correspondence, minutes and fiscal reports, 1964-66. The correspondents include Peggy van Praagh and Will Thompson. The minutes of the Australian Ballet Theatre Group, formed after a meeting on 27 October 1959 to consider an approach to the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust on the formation of a permanent Australian ballet company, are handwritten.

There is also a file of promotional material for the Australian Ballet, 1962.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were purchased from Geoffrey Ingram by the National Library in several instalments between 1987 and 1993. Two further additions were donated by Ingram in 1997 and 1998.

Names:

Ingram, Geoffrey

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