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Anastasia. In summer 1967, Kenneth MacMillan had hoped to end his first season as ballet director in West Berlin with a new production of The Sleeping Beauty. When this had to be delayed, he substituted a triple bill consisting of Diversions, Solitaire and a new work, Anastasia. MacMillan had been powerfully struck by the case of Anna Anderson ...
Mar 21, 2024 · When the choreographer John Cranko died at the age of only 45, his colleague, rival and friend Kenneth MacMillan immortalised him with Requiem, one of his loveliest, most poignant works, which ...
Mar 8, 2024 · Danses Concertantes / Different Drummer / Requiem. 20 MARCH – 13 APRIL 2024. The Royal Ballet celebrates the breadth of Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s one-act ballets. Buy tickets. More info.
Baron Harkonnen : This is what I'll do to the Duke and his family. Baron Harkonnen : Bring in Feyd and Rabban! Baron Harkonnen : Rabban! I place you in charge of Arrakis. It's yours to squeeze, as I promised. I want you to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze! Give me spice! Drive them. Drive them into utter submission!
Different Drummer was inspired by George Büchner’s play Woyzeck, the story of a soldier and his descent into insanity. MacMillan told the writer Rachel Billington that he had arrived at his subject when he produced Strindberg’s play Dance of Death in 1983, an experience which re-stimulated his interest in expressionism.
Sea of Troubles. 1988. Sea of Troubles is a short work which Kenneth MacMillan created for Dance Advance, an ensemble of former members of the Royal Ballet. In a programme note for the premiere MacMillan explained his inspiration. “I have taken as a starting point the effect of the death of Hamlet’s father without a literal telling of the play.
Rituals. Requiem (1975) Requiem (1986) The Rite of Spring. Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet pas de deux. Sea of Troubles. Seven Deadly Sins (1961) Seven Deadly Sins (1984)
