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IE 2135 NDAI N43/3 · Series · 1921
Part of The Sara Payne Papers

Book originally belonging to Sara Payne.

Payne, Sara (1907-1993), dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
IE 2135 NDAI N43/1/3 · Item · 30 April 1939
Part of The Sara Payne Papers

Flyer promoting a programme of ballet presented by The Payne School of Dance and Mime at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included Coppelia; Fair Rosamund; Phillida Flouts Me; Irish Scena and a new Irish ballet, The Scarecrow.

Payne, Sara (1907-1993), dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
Four Plays for Dancers
IE 2135 NDAI N43/3/1 · Item · 1921
Part of The Sara Payne Papers

Yeats, William Butler. Four Plays for Dancers. London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1921. Lacking dust jacket. Signed on the inside by Sara Payne, and by the original owner of the book, Abbey Theatre actor Joseph O’Neill. The pages contain handwritten annotations for possible movement and sound direction, and the players’ cues for the play At the Hawks Well.

Payne, Sara (1907-1993), dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
Press Cuttings
IE 2135 NDAI N43/2 · Series · 1936-1942
Part of The Sara Payne Papers

Press cuttings relating to Sara Payne and the Payne School of Dance and Mime.

Payne, Sara (1907-1993), dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
IE 2135 NDAI N43/1/1 · Item · 14 February 1931
Part of The Sara Payne Papers

Programme of a matinee performance by the Abbey Theatre School of Ballet at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included Theme Classique; Prelude; The New Hat; Serenade; A Study in Plastic Movement; Once Upon a Time; Suite de Danses; When the Cat’s Away; Pas de Trois; Russian Court Dance; When Philidda Flouts Him; Ballet Suite from Carmen; Holiday; Prelude Oriental and Fedelma.

Payne, Sara (1907-1993), dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
IE 2135 NDAI N43/1/11 · Item · Christmas 1945
Part of The Sara Payne Papers

Programme of a performance of Prunella, a romantic pantomime by Laurence Housman and Granville Barker, at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The performers included Sara Payne.

Payne, Sara (1907-1993), dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
IE 2135 NDAI N43/1/8 · File · November 1941
Part of The Sara Payne Papers

Programme of performances of ballets directed by Sara Payne at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included The Snow Queen; Spanish Dance; Folk Songs; Liebeslieder; Pas de Trois from Swan Lake; Sea Shanties and The Scarecrow.

Payne, Sara (1907-1993), dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
IE 2135 NDAI N43/1/9 · Item · June 1942
Part of The Sara Payne Papers

Programme of performances of ballet directed by Sara Payne at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included Act II of Casse Noisette; Russian Court Dance; Mairin de Barra/ Thankye Ma’am Says Dan; Waltz from Les Sylphides; Czardas; Tarantelle; Van Dieman’s Land; Pas Seul; Silent Noon; Waltz; A Fiddler’s Story; Ich Grolle Nicht and Liebeslieder.

Payne, Sara (1907-1993), dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
IE 2135 NDAI N43/1/6 · File · June 1941
Part of The Sara Payne Papers

Programme of performances of ballets directed by Sara Payne at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included Doomed Cuchulain; Pas de Trois from Swan Lake; Nautch Dance; Villikins, the Ratcatcher’s Daughter; The Sugar-Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker; Mazurka from Coppelia; Polka; Waltz from Les Sylphides; Farewell and Adieu/ Stormalong/ A’Roving/ Fire Down Below; Ballet for the Opera Faust and Ballet Atha Cliath.

Payne, Sara (1907-1993), dancer, choreographer and dance teacher