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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...
...Francesca Hayward is physically ideal for the teenage anti-heroine, with a skittish pas de bourrée and liquescent arms, wrists and shoulders....
...This revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling marks the 30th anniversary of the choreographer’s death and Wednesday’s performance was a worthy tribute....
...My cunning plan to do so involved taking a cut-price route to Kenneth Kaunda International, Lusaka’s main airport....
...Great ballets are built to last and Kenneth MacMillan’s 1965 Romeo and Juliet scrubs up beautifully with each fresh revival....
...The dazzling “Inferno” is underpinned by playful garblings of Liszt (including Dante Sonata and many shorter pieces familiar from Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling) and ends with a shameless Offenbach pastiche...
...Francesca Hayward floated around César Corrales like a length of crêpe de Chine in the balcony pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet....
.... ★★★★☆ From the moment Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet premiered, it was realised that a ballet this sexy, this violent could have a life outside the world’s opera houses....
...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....
...The latest marathon run of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet has seen a flurry of house debuts — not all of them scheduled....
...Francesca Hayward was heart-rending as the tormented Princess Stephanie, whose wedding night is a nightmare of ragdoll pairwork....
...The Barbican’s fascinating 60-minute programme, Kenneth MacMillan: Steps Back in Time, featured extracts from The House of Birds and Danses Concertantes (both 1955) and the whole of Laiderette (1954)....
...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...
...Tim Hayward March 24, 10amOxford Martin School: Seminar Room, £7-£12.50 FT Weekend food columnist Tim Hayward discusses what the modern kitchen tells us about ourselves....
...“Sometimes in that situation you freeze,” choreographer Arthur Pita gently suggests to the Royal Ballet’s Francesca Hayward....
...So far the 24-year-old has been at her best in the more psychologically complex Kenneth MacMillan repertoire — her Manon was a devastating blend of sweetness and venality....
...The Curse of Cash by Kenneth Rogoff is on my list to read next....
...The programme ended with Christopher Wheeldon’s joyously inventive Within the Golden Hour but the meat in the evening’s sandwich was a long-overdue revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s 1960 The Invitation....
...Zenaida [Yanowsky, who will dance the seductress] and Frankie [Francesca Hayward] are going to be quite something.” Hayward, 23, is slowly working her way through the repertoire....
...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....
...The title role is catnip for danseuses: our national troupe fields some attractive newcomers – Melissa Hamilton and Francesca Hayward – and Natalia Osipova will make her local debut....
...Tim Hayward Gardens Gardens of the Italian Lakes, by Steven Desmond and Marianne Majerus, Francis Lincoln, RRP£35 Pliny the Younger had two villas around the Italian Lakes, and a host of literati from...
...brb.org.uk … Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London The Royal Ballet opens its new season with Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon with varied casting....
...My Dear BB: The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-59, edited by Robert Cumming, Yale University Press, RRP£25/$45 A meeting of minds between the flamboyant connoisseur and the distinguished...
...Kenneth Grange, industrial designer. Peter Hendy, commissioner, Transport for London. Bernard Hogan-Howe, commissioner, Metropolitan Police....
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