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Mainly programmes and press cuttings illustrating Sara Payne’s career as a dancer, teacher and choreographer; the activities of the Payne School of Dance and Mime; and the early development of ballet as an art form in Ireland.

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.

Book originally belonging to Sara Payne.

Programmes and flyer relating to performances by Sara Payne and the Payne School of Dance and Mime

As N43/1/1, with handwritten corrections and additions by Sara Payne.

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.

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

Scrapbook containing reviews and other press cuttings relating to Sara Payne and the Payne School of Dance and Mime, providing a detailed insight into the early years of ballet in Ireland. One of the items is loose.

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.

Programme of performances by Sara Payne Ballet at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included The Scarecrow; Lusmore; Dances; Faust; Doomed Cuchullan; Table d’Hote Or…; A Fiddler’s Story and The Snow Queen.