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Timeline Event » 1931 – Premiere of Ninette de Valois’ Job by the Camargo Society

Job is a masque for dancing in eight scenes, choreographed and produced by Ninette de Valois. It was first presented by the Camargo Society at the Cambridge Theatre, London in July 1931 and then...

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Timeline Event » 1989 – Premiere of Kenneth MacMillan’s The Prince of Pagodas by The Royal Ballet

2The Prince of the Pagodas was originally choreographed by John Cranko for The Royal Ballet in 1957 and was hailed at the time as the first full-length British ballet. Performed at the Royal Opera...

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Grace Note » 1930s: Art and Literature in Britain in the 1930s

Artists in Britain in the early and mid 20th Century were influenced by contemporary developments in Europe. However, they also looked back to a quintessentially native? Romanticism. There is no...

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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...

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