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Royal Ballet Choreographer Bintley Has Fun at Covent Garden |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Kathrine Sorley Walker |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1988 |
| Size: 1,582 Words, 9,880 Characters |
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Theatrical careers in the ascendant have a powerful attraction, and David Bintley, the Royal Ballet's resident choreographer, is very much a man of the moment. Prolific, positive, and versatile, Bintley at thirty has behind him a long list of immensely varied ballets. In the last ten years he has steadily flexed creative muscle, maturing into a fluent and inventive master of his art. He is now an established force in British ballet. In America, however, he is barely known.
Born in Huddersfield and endowed with all the Yorkshireman's typical tough individualism, Bintley is a graduate of the Royal Ballet School. Like so many first-rate choreographers, he has never been an outstanding classical dancer. He has an excellent reputation in character work and mime--he must be the best Petrus...
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...--the former a greatly admired artist from American Ballet Theatre who has become identified with the Royal Ballet since joining it in 1986, and the latter one of the most distinguished of the current homegrown ballerinas--contributed speed and precision, buoyancy, and sensitivity. Harvey even allowed a slightly amused and lively manner to relieve what can become a rather monotonous lyricism.
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