Established as a “non-profit making organisation to encourage and develop the art of ballet”, the founding members of The Ballet Guild included Christmas Humphreys, Keith Lester, Derrick Lynham, Molly Lake,…
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Timeline Event » 1957 – London Festival Ballet dances Jack Carter’s The Witch Boy for the first time
Jack Carter’s The Witch Boy, originally created for the Ballet der Lage Landen in 1956, was first performed by London Festival Ballet at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, in 1957. The…
Timeline Event » 1964 – London Dance Theatre founded
In 1964, Jack Carter and Norman McDowell launched a small company, London Dance Theatre, for which Carter created Agrionia. It featured McDowell as a Dionysos, who punishes three sisters for…
Timeline Event » 1973 – Premiere of Jack Carter’s Three Dances to Japanese Music by Scottish Theatre Ballet
Three Dances to Japanese Music. Three Dances to Japanese Music is a ballet originally choreographed by Jack Carter for Scottish Ballet after he had spent some time working in Japan….