Podcast » Gillian Lynne
The great choreographer and director Gillian Lynne tells Lynn Wallis how it was a giant, but ultimately rewarding step, to leave Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 1951. We have a ten-minute trip from the...
ballets » Le Tricorne
he product of a summer spent in Spain and having taken lessons in Spanish dancing from Felix, Léonide Massine created Le tricorne in a remarkable collaboration with composer Manuel de Falla and artist Pablo Picasso, making perhaps the most successful depiction of Spain on the ballet stage. It was staged by Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 1947 and Birmingham Royal Ballet in 1994.
Podcast » Alexander Grant
From the vagaries of casting to revealing how Bottom in Frederick Ashton’s The Dream came to dance on pointe, Alexander Grant bounds through 12 minutes of reminiscence at the whistle-stop speed he...
Timeline Event » 1919 – World premieres of La Boutique fantasque and Le tricorne, by the Ballets Russes
La Boutique fantasque and Le tricorne Set in an enchanted toy shop in the 1860s, Léonide Massine’s La Boutique fantasque was one of his happiest and most effervescent works, danced to Ottorino...