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La Fille mal gardée, with McRae and Marquez, Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, May 2012
13 May, 2012La Fille mal gardée is one of Frederick Ashton’s most delightful ballets, and this review covers the same cast as for the live cinema relay on May 16.
McRae and Marquez, all images ROH/ Tristram Kenton
The story is simple. Widow Simone wants to marry off her very pretty daughter Lise to the son of a wealthy landowner, thereby assuring her and her daughter’s financial future. There are just two problems. Lise is in love with a local farmhand named Colas, and the landowner’s son, Alain is a simpleton, easily outwitted by the lovers.
Alain and Widow Simone
The ballet was first created in the year of the French Revolution, and nearly thirty years later in 1828 a new score was written by Ferdinand Hérold. In 1960 Ashton asked John Lanchbery to revitalise Herold’s music, which he did by re-orchestrating it and inserting new music by himself and other composers such as Rossini. The result is simply wonderful.
The sheer joy of the music, the clarity of the story, and the subtlety of the choreography combine to form a glorious whole, but be in no doubt, the choreography, particularly for the leading male dancer, Colas is
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Sliver of Sky is to be performed at the Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis Studio on Sunday 24 April at 18:00. Booking and further details of Sliver of Sky. Presented by Inspiration In Motion in association with Amnesty International UK. Crowed funding page for Sliver of Sky
5 Questions to Ludovic Ondiviela on his latest work – Sliver of Sky – starring dancers from The Royal Ballet, English National Ballet and Rambert…
“Lauren Cuthbertson in a new ballet by Ludovic Ondiviela” was headed the press release and we wanted to know more about what turns out to be a very serious piece of work to be premiered on the 24 April at Sadler’s Wells…
Where did the idea of working with the charity Amnesty International spring from? And how did you come to choose dancers from 3 different companies?
I have known about the great work Amnesty does for a while in helping those that can be so easily forgotten. And I began to explore their current work closer.
I then find out about Albert Woodfox’s situation. He spent 43 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana to date. (he has since been released in February)
Spending what seems like a huge portion of your life in solitary grabbed my interest so I looked in t
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Constance Devernay-Laurence
Constance Devernay-Laurence is a Principal choreographer, actress, yoga instructor mount ballet trainer. She legal action currently exploitable in Author, New Dynasty and Town filming edgy a TV Production disperse Amazon Prime.
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