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...The pair cuss like seadogs, bitching about Ninette de Valois, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Frederick Ashton, with Barnett roaring the very Ravenhillian line: “Fuck Kenneth Clark!”...
...Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon....
...Frederick Ashton made only one attempt (to Les Petits riens) and Kenneth MacMillan kept well clear....
...Vaslav Nijinsky’s epoch-making choreography may have been lost after its 1913 premiere, but in 1987 Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer crafted a reconstruction that has since become a repertoire staple...
...lusty pas de deux from Carousel.Other couplings were made possible by rigorous bubbling, and there were star turns from Anna Rose O’Sullivan and Marcelino Sambé in the Act II pas de deux from Frederick Ashton...
...The evening got off to a flying start with Kenneth MacMillan’s 1966 Concerto, a classical killer set to Shostakovich’s ebullient second piano concerto....
...successor Kenneth MacMillan to the three current resident artists, Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor and Liam Scarlett, with the young Charlotte Edmonds as token female....
...When Frederick Ashton made Les Patineurs in 1937 he had only ever glimpsed figure skating on cinema newsreels and Christmas cards, but his short, sweet snowglobe of a ballet evokes the swizzling speed of...
...He was a powerful but pitiful Rudolf in Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling in October and has a great gift for melodrama....
...The oil-and-water mix of larky ragtime (Kenneth MacMillan’s Elite Syncopations), three-Kleenex sentiment (Frederick Ashton’s Marguerite and Armand) and anguished abstraction (Wayne McGregor’s Obsidian Tear...
...On the evening of October 29 1992 the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, was packed with an audience eager to see Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling....
...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....
...In Kenneth MacMillan’s Anastasia she plays Anna Anderson, a psychiatric patient who believed she was Anastasia, and had somehow survived the execution....
...Ballet sex wasn’t invented by the choreographer Kenneth MacMillan — Mikhail Fokine, Roland Petit and Frederick Ashton had all included episodes of startling sensuality in their work — but The Invitation...
...The north tour offers Ashton’s Les Rendezvous and Elite Syncopations, Kenneth MacMillan’s merry homage to Scott Joplin....
...A skater’s ability to glide and spin with frictionless speed has long fascinated dancemakers – Frederick Ashton mimicked skating steps in Les Patineurs, while Kenneth MacMillan, Twyla Tharp and Lar Lubovitch...
...From Tuesday to Thursday, David Bintley’s Beauty and the Beast is on stage, and is then replaced on Friday and Saturday by Shadows of War, a triple bill comprising Bintley’s Flowers of the Forest, Kenneth...
...And from April 16, the sun shines at Covent Garden as Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée takes to the stage for 11 performances....
...When I was 20, Dame Ninette [de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet] was still alive, Frederick Ashton was still there, Kenneth MacMillan was still there....
...“The first ballet that I really loved was Les Sylphides and then I saw Ashton and then I saw Fonteyn....
...And in an act of real wisdom, a programme of Ashton ballets arrives on October 18 that includes both Symphonic Variations and the miraculous Scènes de ballet, one of Ashton’s own favourite creations....
...There will be revivals of Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon and Frederick Ashton’s Scènes de ballet....
...In Ashton’s Rhapsody, opening a triple bill on Friday night, he was a meteor in the role made for Baryshnikov, blazing, marvellous....
...This is Frederick Ashton’s famous catchword “bend”, taken to new extremes, and its lineage seems closer to William Forsythe’s hyperphysical ballets than to Britain’s traditionally more restrained manner....
...Final justification came when two choreographers whom she nurtured – Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan – naturalised the manner: our national ballet had come into its own at Covent Garden....
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