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Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Britain's Best |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Kathrine Sorley Walker |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,057 Words, 12,495 Characters |
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A young choreographer who declared that he was "sick to death of fairy stories," who thirty years ago shocked the London ballet audience with a controversial work featuring a rape, this month is marking his sixtieth birthday with a new version of a fairy story.
Sir Kenneth MacMillan, long internationally renowned, was tempted back to the world of fantasy by Benjamin Britten's full-length score composed in 1957. Employing the lyrical and dramatic dance idiom of which he is a master, MacMillan, in Prince of the Pagodas, unfolds a tale of two rival royal sisters, Belle-Epine and Belle-Rose, and the strange journey the maltreated Belle-Rose takes to kingdom of the Pagodas where she marries the Prince.
Deeply concerned with the psychological problems of men and women, revealing and ...
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... these days, when there is a distressing trend toward reactionary attitudes, with undue enthusiasm for the Soviet repertoires and an insistence in every country on presenting old favorites like Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, he stands out as a creative artist of immense experience and versatility, one who can breathe new life into an art in danger of diminishing through a devotion to its past.
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