Podcast » Alan Cunliffe
Here is Alan Cunliffe talking to Patricia Linton, founder and director of Voices of British Ballet. Inspired by watching pantomimes with his mother at the Harrow Coliseum in the 1950s, Cunliffe broke...
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Podcast » Christopher Bruce
Christopher Bruce is one of the great names in British dance. Here, in a conversation with the dance critic Mark Monahan in 2017, he describes his early days in Ballet Rambert, and his relationship...
Timeline Event » 1962 – First time Ballet Rambert dances Don Quixote
The first staging by a British company of the popular Russian classic, Ballet Rambert presented Marius Petipa’s Don Quixote at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool, on June 28, 1962, in a version by...
Christopher Bruce’s Cruel Garden is a powerful work in two acts; a surreal fantasy based on the life of the Spanish poet Gabriel García Lorca, who was murdered by General Franco’s Nationalist...