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Take your partners Running the Royal Ballet is a bit like managing the England football team: fantastic if you're a success, but otherwise thankless. So who, in the wake of Sir Anthony Dowell's resignation, will get the job? The plotting has already begun
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LAST week Anthony Dowell, artistic director of the Royal Ballet,
publicly confirmed his resignation, an event openly discussed among
the dancers in the company for the past six months. Dowell, 56, has
held the position since October 1966, and will leave the Royal Opera
House in 2001. So who's brave enough to take it on? This is a spiky
job, after all, a post which carries with it the reputation of
British dance.
Two names are bandied about as front-runners: David BintIey, 41,
Britain's...
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Evening Standard - London
; LAST week Anthony Dowell, artistic director of the Royal Ballet, publicly confirmed his resignation, an event openly discussed among the dancers in the company for the past six months. Dowell, 56, has held the position since October 1966, and will leave the Royal Opera House in 2001. So who's brave
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Happy landings ; The Royal Ballet is, once again, the preferred home of many of the world's best dancers. Zoe Anderson reports on the heirs to Bussell and Guillem
The Independent - London
; The Royal Ballet has always had a strong international element. Founded in 1931, when Britain still had an empire, the company drew many of its dancers from what were then colonies or dominions. Its past stars include the Canadians Lynn Seymour and Wayne Eagling, the Australian Robert Helpmann, the
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Something in the way he moves ; Wayne McGregor is a radical choice as resident choreographer of the Royal Ballet, and he's envisaging a dynamic future for the company with an illustrious past, he tells Zoe Anderson
The Independent - London
; "Becoming the resident choreographer of the Royal Ballet wasn't in my game plan," says Wayne McGregor, smiling. "It was off the radar. But when we talked about it, it made so much sense, in terms of what I could contribute." McGregor's appointment, announced this month, comes weeks after the
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Royal Ballet's new Romeo Covent Garden's sexiest dancer is about to tackle ballet's great romantic role. It's tough, he says, but it's also the way to stay alive
Evening Standard - London
; BY FIONA MADDOCKS ALWAYS on the move, dancing in cities across the world. It's better to be in constant motion. Then I don't have time to think. If I think, I get depressed. Then I don't see the point. Then I want to stop." These are startling words from Carlos Acosta, 31, the Cuban superstar
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Royal Ballet's new Romeo; Covent Garden's sexiest dancer is about to tackle ballet's great romantic role. It's tough, he says, but it's also the way to stay alive.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: FIONA MADDOCKS BY FIONA MADDOCKS ALWAYS on the move, dancing in cities across the world. It's better to be in constant motion. Then I don't have time to think. If I think, I get depressed. Then I don't see the point. Then I want to stop. These are startling words from Carlos Acosta, 31, the
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The brutal truth: too old to dance at 41 Did he walk, or was he pushed? The 11-year reign of macho man Irek Mukhamedov at the Royal Ballet is over. But, in an exclusive interview, he tells Jeffery Taylor, a new career beckons...
Evening Standard - London
; THERE was a buzz around the Royal Ballet's performance at the Opera House, Covent Garden, last 16 May. It was not just the standing- room-only status in the auditorium - the usual capacity for an Irek Mukhamedov performance. Nor was it the choice of ballet. Giselle is a perennial favourite with the
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The brutal truth: too old to dance at 41; Did he walk, or was he pushed? The 11-year reign of macho man Irek Mukhamedov at the Royal Ballet is over. But, in an exclusive interview, he tells Jeffery Taylor, a new career beckons...
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: JEFFREY TAYLOR THERE was a buzz around the Royal Ballet's performance at the Opera House, Covent Garden, last 16 May. It was not just the standing-room-only status in the auditorium - the usual capacity for an Irek Mukhamedov performance. Nor was it the choice of ballet. Giselle is a
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A superhero in tights ; He's stronger than a rhino, according to the Royal Ballet's controversial advertisement. The dazzling Ed Watson doesn't know about that but, he says, dancing is like running a marathon every day
Evening Standard - London
; WHEN the Royal Ballet launched a new marketing drive earlier this summer, principal dancer Edward Watson was on tour in Texas and had no inkling of the storm of controversy that was about to surround him. "I saw the photograph of my face that they wanted to use on the poster before I left London,"
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Royal Ballet star dances away to a rival's tune
The Independent - London
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It's a simple case of lost principals Contrary to popular belief (and management spin), it's not just the Royal Opera that's in trouble. Its sister company the Royal Ballet is too. John Percival and Nadine Meisner weigh up its chances of survival
The Independent - London
; At Gerald Kaufman's parliamentary investigation last year into the situation at the Royal Opera House, Vivien Duffield, the theatre's deputy chairman, leaned into the microphone and stated that artistic levels were "higher than they have ever been before". She must have a short memory. The official
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