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

Par Graham Watts, 10 juin 2019

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“one famous British ballet Dame paying tribute to another”

Critique faite à Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Londres, le 8 juin 2019

L'Oiseau de feu (Mikhail Fokine)

La Belle au bois dormant (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 et Chloé (Mikhail Fokine)

Roméo et Juliette (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, Direction

Itziar Mendizabal, Danse

Nehemiah Kish, Danse

Marianela Núñez, Danse

Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Danse

Romany Pajdak, Danse

Fumi Kaneko, Danse

Sarah Lamb, Danse

Ryoichi Hirano, Danse

Zenaida Yanowsky, Danse

Mayara Magri, Danse

Anna Rose O'Sullivan, Danse

Alexander Campbell, Danse

Natalia Osipova, Danse

David Hallberg, Danse

Darcey Bussell, Danse

Gary Avis, Danse

Vadim Muntagirov, Danse

Yasmine Naghdi, Danse

Lauren Cuthbertson, Danse

Matthew Ball, Danse

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

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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.