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Books: Facts about ballet

... Facts about ballet The Facts about a Ballet Company Featuring Sadler's Wells Royal Bal let, by John Percival (G. Whlzzard Andre Deutsch £3.25) John Percival has discarded the more familiar critical tone to which readers of his reviews in The Times and ...

Published: Thursday 03 July 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 368 | Page: 25 | Tags: book review 

BOOKS

... enlightening regarding her attitudes to her work and to the early events which led her to becoming a principal dancer for Sadler's Wells Ballet at a time when most of today's young dancers are still at ballet school. Perhaps only an objective outsider is ...

Published: Thursday 04 December 1975
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 454 | Page: 10 | Tags: book review 

Books: Madam rides her Cycle

... Madam rides her Cycle The Cycle. Poems by Ninette de Valois (Sadler's Wells Trust all proceeds donated to the Development ADDeal. £2.501 That Dame Ninette de Valois has an exceptional prose style has long been known to those who value her books Invitation ...

Published: Thursday 06 February 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 9 | Tags: book review 

BOOK REVIEWS

... decade. It is a vivid record of the year, words and pictures capturing the magic of unforgettable nights pro vided by the Sadler's Wells Ballet, the Festival Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, to sary nothing of individual ists such as Antonio, Struchkova and ...

Published: Thursday 08 December 1955
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: 13 | Tags: book review 

Books: Dramatic ballerina

... traces her early life in Canada, ar rival in England to study at the Royal Ballet School, homesickness, engage ment by the Sadler's Wells Opera Ballet, prowess through the company to her pinnacle at Covent Garden. He discusses her technical deficiencies, the ...

Published: Thursday 26 February 1981
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 216 | Page: 8 | Tags: book review 

Books: Performance and politics in Popular drama

... Forbes deals with that fascinating sub-culture, water drama, with particular reference to Didbin's elaborate stagings at Sadler's Wells. We are astonished at the size of the productions which Jacqueline Bratton tells us about, when battles and incidents ...

Published: Thursday 12 June 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 47 | Tags: book review 

THEATRE BOOKSHELF: A BRITISH BALLERINA

... patriotism for English ballet makes especially vivid her account of the twin births of the Royal Academy of Dancing and the Sadler's Wells Ballet. Declaring that she would never have agreed to change her English name as every British dancer was required to ...

Published: Thursday 22 April 1954
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 10 | Tags: book review 

Experimental Theatre from Stanis lavsky to Peter Brook, by James Roose-Evans (Routledge £6.95 paper back) No ..

... air on to old-fashioned theatrical traditions the Duke George II of Saxe-Meiningen, the English actor Samuel Phelps at Sadler's Wells, Andrl Antoine in France, were a few of those the author discusses. Later, they were succeeded by Sta nislavsky and N ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 429 | Page: 31 | Tags: book review 

Theatre in My Blood: A biography of John Cranko by John Percival (Herbert Press £10.95) Ten years after his death,

... depressions. His life divides itself into three sections: birth and childhood in South Africa, development in Britain with the Sadler's Wells Ballet, and discovery of his true measure in Stuttgart. From the sun he showed a mixture of curiosity and creativity in ...

Published: Thursday 10 November 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 389 | Page: 31 | Tags: book review 

Charles Mackerras, by Nancy Phelan (Gollancz, £16.95). I his truly fascinating biography of Sir Charles ..

... orchestrating for commercial radio, so that he was by no means inexperienced when he came to London in 1947 and joined the Sadler's Wells Opera on tour as second oboe and repetiteur. Two important events took place in 1947: he married Judy Wilkins, the orchestra's ...

Published: Thursday 11 February 1988
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 552 | Page: 29 | Tags: book review 

BOOKS RECEIVED

... Theatre. Mairhes'er. By Rex Pogson. (Rockl ff 21s. Dancers of the World in Colour. By Gordon Anthony. (Phoenix. 4s. fid.) Sadler's Wells Ballet in Col ir. By Gordon Anthony. (Phoenix 4s. fid.) Stage by Stage. By Peter Daubeny. (Murray, 16s.) An Intruder ...

Published: Thursday 23 October 1952
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 11 | Tags: book review 

Books: Comprehensive guide to opera

... rates no separate entry. Similarly, Malcolm Williamson's fine Violins of St. Jacques, which had a triumphant success at Sadler's Wells in 1966, has no article of its own. Less excusable, in a work that should deflect true Teutonic thoroughness and reliability ...

Published: Thursday 21 January 1982
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 590 | Page: 22 | Tags: book review