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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...
...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!”...
...Does Wayne McGregor have a secret twin?...
...Wayne McGregor, always keen on creative alliances, approached Thomas Adès in 2014 asking for ideas for a full evening work....
...It is unclear what happened with Satish Vadapalli and Wayne Wong, who worked out the challenges with pen and paper before passing on solutions for their third member to bash into a computer....
...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....
...by Kenneth Tindall and assertively lit by Alastair West....
...MacMillan to the three current resident artists, Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor and Liam Scarlett, with the young Charlotte Edmonds as token female....
...He seemed to have an insight into where Kenneth was going: taking ballet out of the 19th century.”...
...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...
...The Royal, Northern, Scottish and English National Ballets will be joining forces at Covent Garden this October to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Kenneth MacMillan, but the party started at the...
...It also brought charges against James Finley, 66, a former senior Rolls-Royce energy executive living in Taiwan; Keith Barnett, a former Rolls-Royce regional energy director in the US; Andreas Kohler, a...
...Choreographer Kenneth Tindall worked with award-winning Casanova biographer Ian Kelly to fashion a coherent narrative for Northern Ballet....
...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....
...Larousses at the ready for the latest Wayne McGregor ballet, Obsidian Tear, which had its world premiere at Covent Garden on Saturday in a strong, well-balanced trio of old, new and borrowed choreography...
...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...
...In Kenneth MacMillan’s Anastasia she plays Anna Anderson, a psychiatric patient who believed she was Anastasia, and had somehow survived the execution....
...sadlerswells.com 0844 871 0090 Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London Today and on Tuesday you can see the newest addition to the repertory: Woolf Works, Wayne McGregor’s three-act exploration of the...
...The north tour offers Ashton’s Les Rendezvous and Elite Syncopations, Kenneth MacMillan’s merry homage to Scott Joplin....
...McRae then found himself involved in Tetractys, the evening’s novelty and Wayne McGregor’s response to sections of Bach’s Art of Fugue....
...There will be revivals of Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon and Frederick Ashton’s Scènes de ballet....
...He might learn from the example of Kenneth MacMillan, who looked at his first weeks’ work on Le Sacre du printemps, felt all was not well, and started again....
...Top lot was Barnett Newman’s “Black Fire I” (1961), which made $84.1m....
...Suzi Feay Children’s The Terrible Two, by Mac Barnett and Jory John, Amulet Books RRP£8.99/$13.95 Schoolboy Miles Murphy thinks he is the greatest practical joker ever, until he moves to Yawnee Valley...
...The Royal Opera House he finds himself in now is, he says, very different to the pre-renovation venue he knew as a ballet student in the early 1990s, watching Kenneth MacMillan’s final creations from the...
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