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...Yet he was equally generous and eloquent in his praise and he counted an unusually high number of dance professionals among his valued friends: the choreographers Yuri Grigorovich, Kenneth MacMillan and...
...‘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,...
...figures such as Clement Attlee and Ernie Bevin....
...“There are a lot of products that do not match up to the label of sustainable,” Mr Clements added....
...What Kenneth was grateful for was that Clement always got the point, always understood what the aims and ambitions were, always saw the bigger picture....
...After a painfully discounted run of Frankenstein, Covent Garden is once again packed to the rafters for Kenneth MacMillan’s 1965 Romeo and Juliet....
...FT critic Clement Crisp puts it like this: “If you’re a chicken, you can’t stop laying eggs. If you’re a creator, you can’t stop producing work.”...
A potent performance from English National Ballet
...During the next two weeks, the UK’s classical dance companies — both sections of the Royal Ballet, the Northern, Scottish and English National troupes — unite to celebrate the creativity of Kenneth MacMillan...
...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....
...The celebration of Kenneth MacMillan’s choreographies, which has occupied the Covent Garden stage and the artistry of Britain’s five national ballet troupes — and one smaller ensemble — ends on November...
...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...
...Two, those by Kenneth MacMillan and Pina Bausch, seem to me to realise the score with an emotional and physical resource that understands its power....
...The current revival of Mayerling by the Royal Ballet has shown the company on admirable form: expressive in drama, eloquent in dancing, grandly responsive to the grand matters of Kenneth MacMillan’s choreography...
...In 1988 Kenneth MacMillan made a work for Dance Advance, a small group of dancers sprung from the ranks of the Royal Ballet....
...The present revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s Anastasia brings back to the stage an adventurous, fascinating creation, its final act made in 1967 during MacMillan’s time as director of the Deutsche Oper ballet...
...(Where was Kenneth Williams when we needed him?) Maria Alexandrova was the heroine, unfazed by technical or emotional challenges, brilliant at all times....
...Fifty years ago the Royal Ballet gave the first performance of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, with Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev as the supposedly teenaged lovers....
...It is worth noting that Kenneth MacMillan’s Gloria — inspired by Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain’s memoir about that time — made a grandly allusive statement about what soldiers and women back home felt...
...Included are pieces by Anthony Caro, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland and Helen Frankenthaler, whose 1950 ink “Sketch of Clement Greenberg” is offered for $15,000-$20,000....
...The north tour offers Ashton’s Les Rendezvous and Elite Syncopations, Kenneth MacMillan’s merry homage to Scott Joplin....
...On Friday night, a triple bill brings three major choreographies: In The Night and Afternoon of a Faun by Jerome Robbins, and Song of the Earth, Kenneth MacMillan’s noble realisation of Mahler’s Das Lied...
...Northern Ballet, Leeds and London On May 6-9, at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds’s own ballet company offers a triple bill of stagings by Christopher Hampson, Kenneth Tindall and Denis Volpi...
...also offers a triple bill in which a new work by Israeli Hofesh Shechter is placed between two masterworks: Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments (Hindemith’s grand score illuminated by its choreography) and Kenneth...
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