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...The motifs have a contrastingly retro feel: blowsy red roses or stylised swans in kitschy ice-cream hues owe a debt to her fascination with Elvis Presley and Graceland....
...The operative term in Albert Serra’s Pacifiction is “fiction”....
...December 14 to 24; further information and tickets here ‘The Nutcracker’, Royal Albert Hall The Sugar Plum Fairy is back in town....
...During his eight-year directorship of ENB he made two versions of his own, starting in 1997 with a bold, 70-swan extravaganza created for the Royal Albert Hall, followed three years later by this smaller...
...The show has altered considerably with each revival but the vast stage and long sightlines of the Albert Hall meant another overhaul....
...The Swan at the Globe theatre bar is another good option....
...At 53m tall, the Albert Memorial is one of London’s most ornate monuments, commissioned by Victoria after Albert’s death in 1861....
...Sylvie Guillem also appears, resting backstage dressed as Giselle, alongside Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen in turquoise feathers, and Diana, Princess of Wales meeting Swan Lake dancers at the Royal Albert...
...Taking up dance is linked with reducing the risk of dementia, according to a study by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine....
...Deane and his kaleidoscopic deployment of 60 swans proved them wrong, but while the Albert Hall will always be great for solos and for casts of thousands, it struggles with midscale material, which can get...
...When Derek Deane made his groundbreaking arena Swan Lake in 1997 for the massive “O” of the Royal Albert Hall, he was able to flood the stage with 60 white tutus....
...Washington’s approach appears to be to ignore warning signs and count on being able to frame the inevitable crash as a surprise “black swan” that “nobody saw coming”....
...Lakes in captivity — his 60-swan version for English National Ballet regularly packs the Royal Albert Hall....
...With its talk of pink blancmange and Swan Vestas, Albert Herring should feel dated, but it is as delightful as the day it was written....
...“I was fascinated by the white swan that I knew would become this very magnetising black centre point,” says Lutter. “Around it are all these beautiful dead animals, but it’s not really tragic....
...The Serpentine was created by Queen Caroline and subsequent monarchs have altered and added to the landscape, including Prince Albert, who installed the intricate pipework of the Italian Gardens....
...Notwithstanding these awful truths, I salute with gratitude Derek Deane’s in-the-round production for English National Ballet, returned for a season at the Royal Albert Hall....
...Carlos Acosta’s never-ending goodbye to the classical ballet stage ends with five nights at the Royal Albert Hall....
...In Kensington Gardens, the annual Art Antiques has set up its tent under the shadow of the Albert Memorial....
...Back at the Royal Albert Hall there was no need to introduce John Wilson and his orchestra....
...Usable light bulbs had appeared in the late 1870s, courtesy of Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan....
...It was she who negotiated the brand’s partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum for the 2015 McQueen retrospective Savage Beauty in London....
...She is scheduled for half a dozen Dying Swans at a Raymond Gubbay Albert Hall beano in March but beyond that her future plans are unclear....
...After keeping this in order, choreographing Swan Lake must be a doddle. It would be interesting to know, though, what people who were listening to the radio broadcast thought....
...“Flies not my spirit to the swan-white sky?” asks Jennifer in The Midsummer Marriage. “No” is the answer. This is pretentious nonsense and no amount of throwing in references from Homer, T.S....
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