Podcast » Marcia Haydée
In April 2017, Marcia Haydée was in Stuttgart for a week to celebrate her 80th birthday. Patricia Linton, founder and director of Voices of British Ballet, knew this was her…
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Timeline Event » 1955 – Premiere of Kenneth MacMillan’s Danses concertantes by Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet
Kenneth MacMillan’s first major work, Danses concertantes saw the choreographer counter the trend in the company for dance-dramas with a plotless work that matched Igor Stravinsky’s edgy music with his…
Timeline Event » 1960 – Premiere of Kenneth MacMillan’s The Invitation by The Royal Ballet Touring Company
In a bold move, in The Invitation Kenneth MacMillan chose to create a sexual drama of shifting emotions and desires that culminates with the rape of a young girl by…
Kenneth MacMillan was eager to give ballet its ‘new wave’, and though his earlier one-act works revealed a unique perspective and command of ballet’s expressive potential, it was his first…
Timeline Event » 1974 – Premiere of Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon by The Royal Ballet
The eponymous heroine of Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 Manon has become a role that nearly all aspiring ballerinas long to dance. Though there was initial criticism of the seemingly one-dimensional motives…
Timeline Event » 1978 – Premiere of Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling by The Royal Ballet
With his fourth three-act ballet, Mayerling, Kenneth MacMillan cemented his legacy for reinvigorating the full-length narrative ballet for the modern age. Mayerling, first performed by The Royal Ballet in 1978,…
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…