“The spirit of Margot” celebrated in The Royal Ballet's Fonteyn gala

Von Graham Watts, 10 Juni 2019

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“one famous British ballet Dame paying tribute to another”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, am 8 Juni 2019

The Firebird (Mikhail Fokine)

The Sleeping Beauty (Rose Adage) (Marius Petipa)

Nocturne (Sir Frederick Ashton)

The Wise Virgins (Sir Frederick Ashton)

Birthday Offering (Sir Frederick Ashton)

Ondine (Shadow pas de deux) (Sir Frederick Ashton)

Sylvia (Les chasseresses) (Sir Frederick Ashton)

Daphnis und Chloé (Mikhail Fokine)

Romeo und Julia (Balcony pas de deux) (Sir Kenneth MacMillan)

Façade (Tango) (Sir Frederick Ashton)

Le Corsaire (Anna-Marie Holmes, Marius Petipa, Konstantin Sergeyev)

Apparitions (Ballroom scene) (Sir Frederick Ashton)

The Royal Ballet

Emmanuel Plasson, Musikalische Leitung

Itziar Mendizabal, Tanz

Nehemiah Kish, Tanz

Marianela Núñez, Tanz

Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Tanz

Romany Pajdak, Tanz

Fumi Kaneko, Tanz

Sarah Lamb, Tanz

Ryoichi Hirano, Tanz

Zenaida Yanowsky, Tanz

Mayara Magri, Tanz

Anna Rose O'Sullivan, Tanz

Alexander Campbell, Tanz

Natalia Osipova, Tanz

David Hallberg, Tanz

Darcey Bussell, Tanz

Gary Avis, Tanz

Vadim Muntagirov, Tanz

Yasmine Naghdi, Tanz

Lauren Cuthbertson, Tanz

Matthew Ball, Tanz

Covent Garden Orchester des Royal Opera House

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*****

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*****

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****1

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***11

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.