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...When the choreographer John Cranko died at the age of only 45, his colleague, rival and friend Kenneth MacMillan immortalised him with Requiem, one of his loveliest, most poignant works, which supplies the...
...Make-up, Jimmy Owen Jones at Julian Watson Agency using Byredo and Naturium. Photographer’s assistants, Akira Trees, Emma Ercolani and Rami Hassen. Stylist’s assistants, Connie Ng and Rachel Allison....
...This revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling marks the 30th anniversary of the choreographer’s death and Wednesday’s performance was a worthy tribute....
...Hair and skin, Tomi Roppongi at Julian Watson Agency using Oribe and Violette_FR Boum Boum Milk. Photographers’ assistant, Jim Tobias....
...Watson earned the biggest cheers for his swan song, but the first night boasted 14 principal dancers....
...It was bankrolled by Peter Watson, an aesthetically inclined heir to a margarine fortune, and its offices were set up in Lansdowne Terrace, Bloomsbury, in the flat of Connolly’s deputy editor, the poet Stephen...
...‘A vital part of our national heritage’ ‘Kenneth Macmillan: An Appreciation’ (October 1 1992) “As a choreographer [Kenneth Macmillan] was, in his most searching works, custodian of a gift, his genius,...
...The Jews and the Reformation, by Kenneth Austin, Yale University Press, RRP£30/RRP$45, 288 pages Austin’s examination of Christian attitudes to Jews during the Reformation throws fascinating new light on...
...Edward Watson, who recently announced his new career as coach, is due to retire from dancing any minute, but his searing account of the trio from Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works made you wish he wouldn’t....
...“China is much further along its post-Covid recovery path,” said Paul Colwell, head of Asia advisory portfolio group at Willis Towers Watson....
...Mayerling (Kenneth MacMillan) Crown Prince Rudolf’s locked down life finds an outlet in hard drugs and rough sex in this enduring modern classic....
...Noel Watson, the chief financial officer of TrueCar, has joined game developer Zynga’s board of directors. Sandhya Venkatachalam has moved to Khosla Ventures as a partner....
...An injury to Edward Watson has played havoc with the casting for the Royal Ballet’s latest star-studded revival of Mayerling but the company’s current strength in depth ensured that the opening night of...
...Mr Watson, whose parliamentary office has received funding from Mr Mosley, said there were “new allegations emerging all the time” against newspapers, justifying a new inquiry....
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...Kenneth MacMillan understood, given the respect and dignity his work demands in this celebratory season....
...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...
...Until recently, the shadow of Sir Frederick Ashton and Sir Kenneth MacMillan, both central to the Royal Ballet’s repertoire, both master storytellers, loomed large....
...What you’ve been saying Neither side has a solution to the problem of our time - Rowan Watson: “Conservative MP and Father of the House Kenneth Clarke remarked in an interview recently that the increasing...
...Kenneth Grahame’s immortal love letter to the Thames, The Wind in the Willows, begins with gentle Mole encountering a spring river for the first time....
...The Bolshoi will screen Alexei Ratmansky’s hilarious Shostakovich ballet Bright Stream next month and Covent Garden will offer Kenneth MacMillan’s dark and difficult Anastasia before the screening of The...
...First, Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor responsible for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton for lying about his sexual relationship with a White House intern, has lost his job as president of...
...Kenneth Heinz, president of HFR, says hedge fund launches accelerated in early 2015 as total hedge fund capital reached a record level....
...That’s at the root of Kenneth Williams’s unimprovable gag in Carry On Cleo: “Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it infamy!” Harris doesn’t, I think, always manage it....
...The Royal Ballet’s latest revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 Manon got off to a less than thrilling start at the Royal Opera House last Friday despite some excellent work in the ranks....
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