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...Northern Ballet has never danced any Kenneth MacMillan — even the one-act works would be ruinously expensive for a mid-scale company to license, dress and stage — until now....
...Mayerling, Kenneth MacMillan’s study of the deaths of Archduke Rudolf and his mistress Mary Vetsera at the Royal Hunting Lodge in 1889, is a consummate theatrical machine — exact in evoking a past, crafted...
...In 1988 Kenneth MacMillan made a work for Dance Advance, a small group of dancers sprung from the ranks of the Royal Ballet....
...Aside from the odd painting of the Thames, the fictional world of Peter Grimes, evoking the steely grey seas off the Suffolk coast, is the closest he came to making Britain his subject matter....
...Among his pupils was Pier Paolo Pasolini, who at the end of both their lives painted Longhi’s portrait, steely, refined features elegantly abstracted in revolutionary red and black....
...The steely management from Mr Griffin himself is famous or notorious: Goldman Sachs might be a hard-charging environment but it does not have a fiercely meritocratic owner walking the halls....
...Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford’s Macbeth, part of this year’s Manchester International Festival, is no such crowd-pleaser....
...Perhaps the most satire-worthy moment was the announcement that a new “take” on Kenneth Clark’s famous series Civilisation was being commissioned “for the digital age”....
...His calm but steely manner, however, saw off an assault from Carl Icahn, the activist investor who was urging accelerated share buy-backs and a sale of Time Warner Cable....
...From 1993 to 1997 the cigar-puffing Kenneth Clarke and chain-smoking governor had enjoyed their monthly “Ken and Eddie show” to set interest rates....
...Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon has returned to the Royal Ballet repertory at Covent Garden....
...This, for McKenna, is crucial: the show may look like anarchy, but it is founded on steely discipline and loving care for the tradition....
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