Showing posts with label Great Choreographers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Choreographers. Show all posts
Monday, 10 September 2012
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Sir Kenneth MacMillan
http://www.kennethmacmillan.com/kenneth-macmillan/biography.html
My favourite reading...biographies..another wonderful career, and a great loss to the Ballet world. xx
My favourite reading...biographies..another wonderful career, and a great loss to the Ballet world. xx
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Friday, 9 December 2011
John Cranko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cranko
Always enjoyed John Cranko's choreography very beautiful. We can recall his shock tragic death at such a young age,a great loss to the ballet world. xx
Always enjoyed John Cranko's choreography very beautiful. We can recall his shock tragic death at such a young age,a great loss to the ballet world. xx
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Sir Robert Helpmann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Helpmann
I have read and found very interesting the book The Helpmann Family Story written by his mother, Mary Helpmann.
Our family lived in Young during 1963 to 1967 where we travelled three times a week to Cootamundra where Miss Kim and Miss Karen took Ballet Classes with Miss Molly Windred who in later years moved to Sydney as Ballet Mistress at one of Sydney's private boarding schools. During our years at Young the girls and I travelled to Wagga Wagga to an Australian Ballet performance of Robert Helpmann's first choreographed ballet The Display, and the John Cranko choreographed ballet The Lady and the Fool. I never forget this night, as distracted as usual with all our ballet talk on the trip back to Young, I missed a turn and ended up in Temora, took a gravel road back to Cootamundra where I had exhausted my petrol supply. I sort assistance from a very kind police constable, finally arriving back in Young in the early hours of the morning. xx
I have read and found very interesting the book The Helpmann Family Story written by his mother, Mary Helpmann.
Our family lived in Young during 1963 to 1967 where we travelled three times a week to Cootamundra where Miss Kim and Miss Karen took Ballet Classes with Miss Molly Windred who in later years moved to Sydney as Ballet Mistress at one of Sydney's private boarding schools. During our years at Young the girls and I travelled to Wagga Wagga to an Australian Ballet performance of Robert Helpmann's first choreographed ballet The Display, and the John Cranko choreographed ballet The Lady and the Fool. I never forget this night, as distracted as usual with all our ballet talk on the trip back to Young, I missed a turn and ended up in Temora, took a gravel road back to Cootamundra where I had exhausted my petrol supply. I sort assistance from a very kind police constable, finally arriving back in Young in the early hours of the morning. xx
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Sir Frederick Ashton
http://www.theballetbag.com/2010/03/29/one-step-closer/
Our family attended Australian Ballet Premiere 1972 at the Elizabethan Theatre, Newtown. Memorable performance by Sir Frederick Ashton and Sir Robert Helpmann as the ugly step-sisters. Very long wait that night at the stage door to obtain their famous autographs.
Our family attended Australian Ballet Premiere 1972 at the Elizabethan Theatre, Newtown. Memorable performance by Sir Frederick Ashton and Sir Robert Helpmann as the ugly step-sisters. Very long wait that night at the stage door to obtain their famous autographs.
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