Podcast » John Craxton
For over half a century, John Craxton was a major force in the visual arts of this country. From the late 1940s on, his main source of inspiration had been…
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Grace Note » 1920s – 1950s: Neo-Romanticism and After
According to Virginia Woolf, ‘on or about December 1910 human character changed’. The event from 1910 she was referring to was the famous exhibition entitled ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’, organized…
Taking Maurice Ravel’s sumptuous score for Mikhail Fokine’s 1912 ballet (since lost), Frederick Ashton created Daphnis and Chloë for Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 1951 as a vehicle for Margot Fonteyn…
First performed by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1928, George Balanchine’s Apollo was only the fourth work by Balanchine to enter The Royal Ballet’s repertoire after Ballet Imperial in 1950…