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David Wall is the central figure in this photograph like tableau in Jerome Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering (1969), amid left to right – Laura Connor, Ann Jenner (her arm in Wall’s), Rudolf Nureyev, and Anthony Dowell. Dances at a Gathering joined the Royal Ballet’s repertory in 1970, with these five dancers part of an illustrious cast that also included Antoinette Sibley, Lynn Seymour, Monica Mason and Michael Coleman. © Anthony Crickmay/Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Dances at a Gathering, which had been created for New York City Ballet in 1969, represented the first work by Jerome Robbins to enter The Royal Ballet’s repertoire. Danced to music by Frédéric...

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